For Sale/Trade Categories

[cwalker2000]

Is it possible to have Categories in the For Sale/Trade Forum? Maybe something along the lines of:

Video
Memory
CPU/Motherboard
Networking

It would make selling and browsing a lot easier and more effecient.

 

[GeoffS]

Harder to list if you are selling several items....

 

[TonyH]

Originally posted by: GeoffS
Harder to list if you are selling several items....

Ditto

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Take the time to be very clear in your thread title (since the bulk of the traders, I assume, aren't subscribers).

Be clear, concise, yet within those bounds give as much information as you can (reasonably).

Stick to some standards like

WTF or WTT - Want to trade for / trade
WTB - Want to buy
FS - For Sale
FT - For Trade

If something is for pickup only or you're looking to buy in a particular area, include that as well.

Brainstorm: Start including three-letter abbreviations in the title. For instance:
FS/FT: VID Geforce2 MX, HDD 160gb Maxtor, CAS Lian Li PC60, ODD Rabid Weasel

VID: Video card
HDD: Hard Drive
CAS: Case
FAN: Fan
ODD: Oddity
KB: Keyboard
MOU: Mouse
SPK: Speakers
SND: Sound card
CAR: Automobile stuff
MISC: Miscellaney
ACC: Accessories
CDR: CD-Rom, CDRW, maybe blank media as well.
DVDR: DVD-R/+R/etc drives
SOF: Software
HW: Hardware

Blah blah, I dunno

So someone wants a video card. Have search for "FS" and "VID" or somethin.

If any sort of standards can be adopted (either in full or in part), searching the forum will become more productive and bumps to the front page will become gradually less important.

 

[jarsoffart]

Originally posted by: Hossenfeffer
Take the time to be very clear in your thread title (since the bulk of the traders, I assume, aren't subscribers).

Be clear, concise, yet within those bounds give as much information as you can (reasonably).

Stick to some standards like

WTF or WTT - Want to trade for / trade
WTB - Want to buy
FS - For Sale
FT - For Trade

If something is for pickup only or you're looking to buy in a particular area, include that as well.

Brainstorm: Start including three-letter abbreviations in the title. For instance:
FS/FT: VID Geforce2 MX, HDD 160gb Maxtor, CAS Lian Li PC60, ODD Rabid Weasel

VID: Video card
HDD: Hard Drive
CAS: Case
FAN: Fan
ODD: Oddity
KB: Keyboard
MOU: Mouse
SPK: Speakers
SND: Sound card
CAR: Automobile stuff
MISC: Miscellaney
ACC: Accessories
CDR: CD-Rom, CDRW, maybe blank media as well.
DVDR: DVD-R/+R/etc drives
SOF: Software
HW: Hardware

Blah blah, I dunno

So someone wants a video card. Have search for "FS" and "VID" or somethin.

If any sort of standards can be adopted (either in full or in part), searching the forum will become more productive and bumps to the front page will become gradually less important.

I agree, standards need to be made. While searching for a DVD-ROM, I had to wade through DVDs, DVD Media, DVD-R's, DVD players, and other stuff.

 

[Jeff7]

Maybe some sort of checklist or something when you're selling the item - you can just check off like Whole system, Motherboards, CPU, Other...then add a function to Search to look for certain items like this. That could maybe even take a load off the server - instead of looking for "motherboard" in the database, it could just look at the posts' tags for a single y/n for one category.