He's already answered it.


Now please give it a rest.  This thread is for constructive feedback, not fear mongering.

Happy to see this is finally live!

That's already answered for dealers, yes, for individuals, no.

I had my first try at a sale last night and I could not accept the offer. It just said Invalid Offer. We just did the sale without going through the system.

Bump to page 1 with hope the first post is read.

Will do. Thanks

@TGWLDR

Copy. Disregard the message I sent you as this is the area I found. Thanks

We'll get that fixed.

We currently have List, Grid, and Text view as options. Once listing have moved over to the new model, we can keep text view as an option for that.
Good point. Added to feedback list.

Not even close!

No.

I think there's some confusion over fees.The fee structure is for power seller accounts which are intended to replace dealer accounts.
Upcoming Changes

Non-Team accounts will be required to validate their account before creating any sale listings. The fee for this is $5 and lasts for 12 months.

Team accounts do not need to validate their accounts to purchase. There is no fee to use the system and buy items.

Power seller accounts will not have a yearly fee (all will be required to authorize) charged and instead will pay a fixed fee per sold listing at the end of each month. This allows sellers to grow at their own pace, without incurring any additional costs. Either large or small companies will be able to participate at their own pace.

More info at the help page

Looking into this and will fix. Also ZIP CODE IS OPTIONAL!!!!! We will adjust so it is clearly labeled as such.

As we move forward we will continue to review and fix this so it's not an issue. This has been a HUGE concern with the EE at every phase.

On the list, we will push it up in priority.

We will continue to protect you all and do not plan to store historic user data. So we will continue to scrub your info from both sales and purchases. We do not want to ever be in the middle of investigations, so the less we store, the better for us too. We have ALWAYS done what we can to protect your info and will continue to do so. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either projecting their grouchiness or hasn't been around long enough to know how we work.

Again, to be clear. WE DO NOT PLAN TO KEEP USER DATA TIED TO TRANSACTIONS. I'd like to clean out all old transactions and keep the system super fast. The plan right now is deciding on the window to hold info in case of a problem between seller and buyer.

We do not store CC info. We send it to the merchant bank and they run the transaction and it's done. Never stays in our system, so no risk potential on our end with any financial information. This SHOULD be the standard way to do business, but I'm not sure why everyone doesn't do it. WE can always hit the bank for your info if we need it, but have to jump through hoops to validate in order to see it. (Which is a good thing!)

To be clear on a non-team charge. It would last a year and only be an address check. If you are just a buyer, you wont need to worry about this.

Right now it's a rough guesstimate and we will adjust as we go and see what makes sense. The idea has always been that if someone is selling more than just their personal stuff, then they should become a dealer. This will replace the dealer program and instead of requiring a set fee for 6/12 months, the sales you make will drive your rate. It allows small folks, short term liquidation, and large folks all in a fair system.

Oh and the thresholds are handled by limits to quantity, listings a month, and active ads. So again, we can quickly adjust to what makes sense to define a normal user and a volume person.

I posted this over in the EE for those folks and their questions, but I'm going to report here. It's a bit of everything on the NEW EE.


So a few key things, here's the link to the new interface to drive the new EE: https://www.ar15.com/exchange/index.html

1) The link above will be made the main link shortly and jumping into the old view is an option on the right menu by filters called text view. Jumping back to the new EE view is at the top bar of the forum pages "NEW EE VIEW".

2) Feedback and user tools (manage ads, manage offers, track purchases, etc) are all in the MY TOOLS button on the new EE. You should be able to find everything you need there.

3) There are no per sale fees for selling for either team members or non-team. Non-team will eventually be required to pay a small fee for a simple CC address check to cut down on scammers. (This is only to sell/wtt/wtb and not to buy.) Volume sellers ("Power Sellers") will replace the dealer program and allow for small and large dealers to play in the same pond with fees based on what you sell, not a yearly fee. This means small folks will pay a lot less and from proceeds of sales AFTER they sell. The proposed fees are shared in the how-to help file and are roughly 1%-3% based on the items sale price. Again, ONLY FOR DEALERS and most will be around 1.5%, not like gunbroker's 18% or ebays 12%.

4) Right now the goal is to NUKE user data when things are sold. We are not here to collect data on you folks. There's a lot of fear mongering going around about charging people crazy amounts (see above) and tracking data. We have NEVER tracked information on people, do not require your name or any personal info to use the site, and we do not intend to change this. Our goal is to make the EE easier to use and MUCH easier to manage. Collecting your personal information on EE transactions is not going to happen. We have a history of protecting you all and will continue to do so to the best of our ability.

5) The multiple listing per post is being addressed and I ask for time to correct the issue. We will make it so you can do a "clean out" type ad for your small stuff. We still want to see big items listed individually (lot/sets are fine) because those drive traffic and are easier to see, buy, and sell when they are the focus.

6) Quantity is being addressed and should have a fix this week. This will be for smaller ticket items like magazines, where individual listings makes ZERO sense. Again, this is on us and we will get it right. There will be different quantity restrictions, as there are now, for team and non-team. If you are planning to sell large amounts, please look at a volume seller account to simplify things for everyone.

7) The old EE view is going to be less helpful and useful than the new one. We recommend using the new system to see new listings as well as moving your old listings to new style. If you have bulk "clean out" style posts, just give us a little time to create a better system for you folks.

8) The NEW EE has it's own simple search as well as FILTERS on the right of the main view bar. This allows you to filter by state, manufacurer, etc.

9) If you find manufacturers that are missing, let us know. The list is huge, but it is obviously not complete. It's easy to add more to it, please just let us know!

10) HOW DOES IT WORK
- So the basics are simple. Create a listing with either a fixed price or accepting offers. If you are doing something where you are dead-set on a price, then fixed price it. If you are ok with options or have item with quantity and discounts, then do accepting offers so users can send those in.
- Once a listing exists, you can click the PLACE OFFER button in green to make an offer to buy an item. The seller will be sent notifications on all offers submitted. Sellers can interact with users and decide WHO they want to accept an offer from. Once it's accepted the deal is agreed to. So make sure you want to place an offer you are going to honor, otherwise comment in the listing or message the seller. Anything with multiple quantity will only lock down the quantity the buyer is trying to get. So if it's a single item or multiple, the quantity will be adjusted once the offer is accepted.
- If you have an issue with anything above, you can request help from admins. For example if an accepted offer is welched on, you can report it and an admin to remove it and restore your listing.
- If there are any other issues or question, post here and we will monitor this discussion to help!!!!
- Once a transaction is completed (offer made and offer accepted) then you will see the item in sold/purchased list and be able to leave feedback for each other. Since this is a transactional system, feedback can't be manipulated or extras created. Each feedback requires an item to be listed and agreed to be sold.

ONCE AGAIN, we do not plan to save historic data on users. I don't care if you bought a gun 3 years ago from someone else. We plan to wipe all of the user info after a 30/60/90 window. (Haven't decided 100% but leaning towards a 60 day window to allow for after sale disputes to be handled. Once user data is gone, it will be GONE.)

Hope this helps and I'll run through the thread again to try to answer other questions posted that I may not have addressed.

No, it just got moved.  Some of us EE Mods missed a memo or something.

https://www.ar15.com/forums/equipment-exchange/WTB-M1-carbine-USGI-northern-Indiana/130-2427140/

@steelworker

On the personal info front, we've been trying to get folks to STOP posting their emails and phone numbers in ads.  I would love to see a note added when posting ads to remind people to not do that. @Stylz

You'll always be a power seller to me...