carreral4 — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:07:13 +0000

ok just want to say big thank you to busy and auctoecart. im looking into all this, would like to ask one last thing from everyone, does anyone know the php probid script (eg the coding etc whom feels they can successfully change this area in the script for me) if so please do not hesitate to get in talks with me.
i shall let you know how it goes.
Thank you everyone, lisa xx

autoecart — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:21:41 +0000

If there is not an option in the script already to do it you can probably have a programer make the change for you for a small fee.

Busy — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:26:24 +0000

I saw the link in another thread and looked at your site (which is also in your profile), it's a php probid auction script. Option wise there doesn't look like much on the website (theirs), so probably would need the code changing.
You can see the prices on the link above, if you were charged much more than that for the site then these guys should do the changes for you, but looks like a default skin so not much may of been done to it.

Do you charge a fee to the buyers before they can buy? (you should, cuts down the bad apples), if so you can take the fees out of that, wouldn't be that hard as it would be a sucess fee taken from buyer instead of seller.
I've never used this auction script but know of a few that do, and the feedback hasn't been the best, lots of little bugs. Ideally you need a programmer to help you run the site as no doubt you will be wanting changes later on as well.

Or reconsider the payment structure, really it's a bad idea to not charge the seller. Another way you could do it, which might even be able to as a default option on this script is have it free to list an item and no success fees but charge the seller for the 'extras', things like extra images, bold listing, highlighted, featured, gallery ... This way the seller must credit their account with say minimum $10 (or pounds) and can't sell more if the balance is under .01c this way the fraudsters and con men loose out if you are able to catch and remove their listings and you arent out of pocket. If you allow anyone to buy/sell without the credit you will find people cheating the system, which is very easy to do.

Don't worry about ya spelling - bad spelers of the world untie