30 day post bump removal

[KazO]

Hi,

I just got an autonotification stating that my 30day forsale bump was deleted cause it hasn't been 30 days. Original post was on 7/26; the notification said 30 days hence is 8/26 (tomorrow). Except that's wrong, since there are 31 days in July, so 30 days from 7/26 is 8/25 (today).

I assume the system is going by the day of the month, in which case the forum policy should reflect that, no?

Easy enough for me to redo the bump tomorrow; just pointing out that the rule and the enforcement don't match.

Thanks.

 

[NSX Prime]

I believe the moderators generally use the same date of the following month (e.g. 26th to 26th) rather than do the math each time to account for the longer and shorter months. I will update the rules to reflect that when I get a moment.

 

[Patricio]

A lowered price should be worthy of a bump.

My posts got deleted for dropping prices substantially plus its been 20 days its not like its 2 days later.

Thanks

This forum is run by nazis or something. every other forum works just fine without baby sitting. Is NSXprime more special than FerrariChat or Rennlist?

NSXprime has what? less than 1/4 the amount of traffic or registered users as either of the two I just mentioned not sure why they treat like its the holy grail of forums

 

[Osiris_x11]

no way, mon'!

^ someone must not like you... I often see posts in the market-place sub-forums as of late, that have been prematurely 'bumped' w/ a reply, and haven't been subsequently deleted.

Apparently, pushing this ittie-bittie button on an offending post does the trick:

BTW, asserting your opinion & insight by deriding/denigrating the individual(s) who run this show & the methodology/mind-set, wow... just wow! I have a few choice short-hand initials/abbreviated 'net phrases I'd like to reply w/, but ehhh' it's not my thing to get into keyboard jockeying.

Onwards-forward. I love this site, and in particular as to how it's run/moderated; and especially the market-place sub-forums. I can't imagine a single change I'd implement to NSX Prime if I was the administrator/owner, other than perhaps the 'Live Chat' suggestion I made months ago... /jk

 

[ANYTIME]

Entertaining, to say the least. Going off your mentality, I should sell my NSX and start the price at 80k. Next week I'll bump it with a new price of 70k, then the next week I'll bump it with a new lower price of 60K, then the next week............. You get the idea.
Don't shoot the messenger, since the rules of the game are merely being enforced. Specifically the 30-Day Bump Rule: Do not reply to an ad just to bump it up higher in the list more than once every 30-days. Such "bump" messages will be deleted. Repeated "bumps" will result in the ad being deleted. Include all your photos and full details for what is being sold in your original message. If you forget something, you can edit your original message to add it.

Now go out and have a wonderful day!

Sincerely,
Your fellow nazi WTF

A lowered price should be worthy of a bump.

My posts got deleted for dropping prices substantially plus its been 20 days its not like its 2 days later.

Thanks

This forum is run by nazis or something. every other forum works just fine without baby sitting. Is NSXprime more special than FerrariChat or Rennlist?

NSXprime has what? less than 1/4 the amount of traffic or registered users as either of the two I just mentioned not sure why they treat like its the holy grail of forums

 

[ANYTIME]

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wow

 

[Patricio]

BTW, asserting your opinion & insight by deriding/denigrating the individual(s) who run this show & the methodology/mind-set, wow... just wow! I have a few choice short-hand initials/abbreviated 'net phrases I'd like to reply w/, but ehhh' it's not my thing to get into keyboard jockeying.

wow...?
That's what I do. I tell it how it is... I was meant to be sarcastic and not to offend anyone in particular is someone is offended or wants to avoid the subject and concentrate on the message context, than that's their problem.

Methodology/mind set?....
This forum has gone through many changes thanks to improvements and different opinions so suggesting one more thing is not a big deal. That's how things work, by tweaking to make it the best possible, no suggestion should be overlooked without thought.

Entertaining, to say the least. Going off your mentality, I should sell my NSX and start the price at 80k. Next week I'll bump it with a new price of 70k, then the next week I'll bump it with a new lower price of 60K, then the next week.............



Sincerely,
Your fellow nazi WTF

The nazi thing was sarcastic I appoligize if offended you.

the car example with ridiculous price is not the common case,
My example applies to items that have been dropped by 20% or more and matched to offers previously turned down, some made available again because of tire kickers and so on....

When someone who looks through the market place daily for crap to spend money on and some daily listings are priced a little high and therefore not inciting enough. If a seller decides a week later to drop the price just to get rid of it, I would like for it to show up at the top again. Most of the time nobody searches through previous posts of items recalled as overpriced. and 30 days is a long time to wait if you just want to unload stuff.

In my case I turned down offers in favor of higher offers that did not materialize. I dropped the price down to previous offers I turned down. Therefore representing a decent deal.

I got 4 PMs within the hour or so before the "price lowered bump" got deleted, 2 from people that had showed previous interest and one that that was upset that I did not reply his previous interest by mistake.

That's I believe shows that a price lowered bump can both make things more interesting for a part that was was overlooked 2 weeks ago and revive people who may have not had the chance to purchase the first time by error or tire kickers.

Is there a way that that could work without interfering with you current system?

Especially with the way the economy is right now..... Think about it, if some guy who needs money, puts his supercharger or car or wheels or whatever up for sale because he needs money ASAP for economic reasons decides he will take whatever he can get to save a more important foreclosure or business deal or whatever. and changes the price on his item to considerably below what its work but it has to happen right NOW.. he should have a way to make that item pop up at the top and exchange an awesome deal for the cash he needs to extend his financial security.

My original post was not only because of my for sale items but also for items that I have looked to purchase that were lowered to a price I would have bought for without me knowing soon enough.


Suggestion...........
Is there a way to maybe ad a search by last edit of threads instead of just first post date?

 

[Patricio]

No response in 3 days.

Thank you for your assistance.....

 

[Osiris_x11]

just an idea. . .

As always, just my personal opinion/insight/out'loud-thought...

There is indeed some merit in being able to update your original market-place post w/ new info' or editing and letting the masses know of the newer content and/or revision. But, it's been tried-&-true that some individuals incessantly abuse such a permissive/accommodating system regardless of the numerous & highly visible stickies, disclaimers, and so forth. That much is a given. And, that right there is the major hindrance as to why NSX Prime Administration doesn't likely go w/ such an option.

Only thing I can think of that could be a possible solution for both sides would be the ability of the original poster to delete their original/existing thread, and post another thread w/ the new content and/or revision. This would address the primary concerns of both parties:

- the original poster would get greater visibility of their real-time edit, as the new updated thread wouldn't be bogged down in the other listings (all done w/o a 'bump', which needs to be moderated)

- the administration/moderators would still have only (1) thread/post to deal w/, as there wouldn't be incessant 'bumping' & 'TTT' posts which need to be constantly moderated and there wouldn't be multiple postings/listings of the same item(s) being offered for sale

Long-story-short: allow the original poster to delete their original thread for 'X' reason(s) only 'X' amount of times within a certain time-frame/interval, to add/revise the content which would be of interest to potential buyers. This would allow viewable real-time updates and not clutter the market-place forum(s) (ie. original threads would be purged).


Obviously, if someone abuses this new format/protocol, they should be stripped of their market-place posting privileges temporarily/permanently (depending on the severity & number of incidents).

Anywayz... just a plausible solution to a cocern at hand for many of Prime's users (though, not one of mine, as I personally feel 30-days is more than adequate enough time for a public update via a 'bump'... it's car parts, not stocks/bonds/securities/currency we're dealing w/, meaning people need to chill'out if using Prime or move onto ebay/Craigslist, or even create their own parts-listing inter-webz site).

 

[Patricio]

Re: just an idea. . .

As always, just my personal opinion/insight/out'loud-thought...

I appreciate your response, and I do see the difficulty behind the administration of the forum.

Maybe be the other option that I mentioned on the previous thread would be for us as a user option to search or reorganize by most recent edit date.

Is that a possible addition?

PS I do agree with the way NSX prime does not allow unlimited TTT and bumps and replies all the time because the forums that allow it seem as though if your not bumping it every hour it will disappear 3 pages deep within a couple of hours as it does on bimmerforums or S2Ki

 

[NSX Prime]

Patricio,

Unfortunately vBulletin does not have a way to search or sort by edit date. I agree that it would be a cool feature.

It's not possible to satisfy everybody here. You would like a substantial price drop to be allowed after 20 days, because that is different than 2 days. So say we set the bar at 15 days? Then someone will say they think it should be 10 days. etc.

Some period of time has to be picked to avoid the problem you mention in your last message with people just constantly bumping their threads. I have decided to go with 30 days. If you think it should be changed we can get some discussion going on that, but you're going to have to convince me of why it should change.

P.S. I'm glad I didn't read/respond based entirely on your first post. It did not come across very well at all. Neither did your one about "no response in 3 days," come to think of it. There is no "help desk" here, it's me in my spare time.

 

[NSX Prime]

Re: just an idea. . .

Only thing I can think of that could be a possible solution for both sides would be the ability of the original poster to delete their original/existing thread, and post another thread w/ the new content and/or revision.

Unfortunately the practical result of that would just be bumping by another name. Instead of posting a "bump" message to their ads, people would just constantly delete and re-post their ads with the same net effect.