New Classified Site!!!

For anyone wanting a better solution than the current "brand name" reptile buying sites, The Reptile Report Marketplace is now OPEN!!!

Whether you have one animal to sell, or thousands, or anything in between, this is THE best option for marketing that I've ever seen.

Looks nice. Only thing I dislike is that when I click on the "pythons" tab the menu drops down but before I can make a selection it brings me to the pythons page. I was trying to click on retics and couldn't get to it. I'm on my phone though so mqube that's why? It seems a bit slow on loading the pages too, but I'm sure that'll get better as the kinks are worked out.

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Could be a phone-navigation thing? On the computer, I just hover over the "Python" and the drop down menu, then move to select "retic" or whatever. No clicking until I get to what I want.

Lemme know if that persists, and I'll mention it.

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Could be a phone-navigation thing? On the computer, I just hover over the "Python" and the drop down menu, then move to select "retic" or whatever. No clicking until I get to what I want.

Lemme know if that persists, and I'll mention it.

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It's working fine for me as well...from a home pc.

Hi Judy! I'm trying to find out what the difference between the different levels of ads (silver, gold, platinum) are and can't seem to find it. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!

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Could be a phone-navigation thing? On the computer, I just hover over the "Python" and the drop down menu, then move to select "retic" or whatever. No clicking until I get to what I want.

Lemme know if that persists, and I'll mention it.

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Does the same thing for me on my phone. I guess since we dont have the ability to hover over it

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Hi Judy! I'm trying to find out what the difference between the different levels of ads (silver, gold, platinum) are and can't seem to find it. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!

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Hmmmm....during development, I thought there was a page describing the different levels, but I can't find it now. Once registered, if you click on the "create new ad" link (whether or not you've bought any tokens, you can still see the page) you will see a choice of the different levels with a brief description of each:

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• Silver-No special highlight-1 token
• Gold-Visual highlight, 150X30 seller banner-2 tokens
• Platinum- Visual highlight seller banner, featured placement on The Reptile Report, The Reptile Report Marketplace and in social media-4 tokens

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I'll make notes on the comments here and pass them on to the powers-that-be. Thanks guys!

Do ads ever expire, or do they remain active until the seller removes them?

Once ads are placed, can they be updated or do they have to be removed and re-posted, say if new pictures are available, an animal doesn't sell for a few months and you want to update the weight, you get it switched from mice to rats, or live to f/t feeders, etc?

Can you add a filter so I can block ads from certain sellers?

It won't load for me at all.... :(

We have pretty darn fast internet at home - I am on my home computer and run windows 7. Don't know if that makes a difference or not. But when I click on the link to go to the marketplace, my screen goes white as its trying to load, but just sits there and nothing happens. darn.....

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Do ads ever expire, or do they remain active until the seller removes them?

Once ads are placed, can they be updated or do they have to be removed and re-posted, say if new pictures are available, an animal doesn't sell for a few months and you want to update the weight, you get it switched from mice to rats, or live to f/t feeders, etc?

Can you add a filter so I can block ads from certain sellers?

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Ads last up to 30 days. You can set how long you want it to last, up to 30 days. You can also set it to automatically renew and/or to notify you when it's about to expire. Once an ad is placed, you have a window of time to "fix" it, such as add or change photos, fix typos or clarify something or whatever. But after that window has passed (not sure how long it is) I believe it has to be renewed in order to be updated/changed in any way. If it's a 1-token silver ad, then it would cost you one token to renew/update it.

Just to clarify...this isn't MY site. I just work for the guys who built it. ;)

That's an interesting suggestion, to allow certain sellers to be blocked or "ignored". I'll pass that one along, but I don't have any power to actually implement anything.

Great addition to the site. The layout is really clean and pretty easy to navigate.

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It won't load for me at all.... :(

We have pretty darn fast internet at home - I am on my home computer and run windows 7. Don't know if that makes a difference or not. But when I click on the link to go to the marketplace, my screen goes white as its trying to load, but just sits there and nothing happens. darn.....

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It's loading slow for me. Really slow. I'm thinking "opening day jitters" is going on. :( Hopefully they'll get that resolved fairly quickly.

The site loaded great at first, but once I hit the back button, it stopped wanting to load.

It looks great though, very organized!
Now you've given me another site I can look through and see what I can't afford :P

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It's loading slow for me. Really slow. I'm thinking "opening day jitters" is going on. :( Hopefully they'll get that resolved fairly quickly.

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Didn't think of that. I'm sure that's what's going on. I'll check in later! :gj:

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I'll make notes on the comments here and pass them on to the powers-that-be. Thanks guys!

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Thanks Judy. Love the new site. Very easy to navigate and place ads. I had trouble adding images using Firefox (v28) but no problem with IE or Google Chrome.

Will we have a place here to make suggestions? One thing I noticed was the inability to upload pictures from the net...ie. photobucket. I had to upload the pics directly from my computer. Not a big deal, but would be nice to have the option. Thanks again! :gj:

Hey all, just had a chance to take a breath for the day, JLC gave me the heads up, thought I would jump in real quick.

Sorry about the speed this morning. Site traffic got the servers overwhelmed, we quadrupled bandwidth capacity after lunch and everything is loading quickly now.

Once you create an ad, you can make an edit within 6 hours. There has to be a fairly short limit, as in the past on other classified systems that allowed longer edits, unscrupulous folks would place an ad for one item, let it run for a day, then swap out the info for something completely different in a later edit. We are looking to avoid that.

JLC posted the ad level info, but here it is again-

Silver- 1 token, basic ad
Gold- 2 tokens, highlighted ad and seller banner
Platinum- 4 tokens, highlighted ad and seller banner, plus integration into The Reptile Report newsfeed and social media

With a token system you don't have to buy an expensive full featured account each year for ads you may or may not post. Spend $125 for 1000 tokens (or $250 for 10,000 tokens) and use some of your tokens this year, some next year, and some three years from now. No yearly account fees. Re-up on your tokens as you want, or need. Whether you have 10 tokens, or 10,000, you have the ability to place our most full featured and integrated Platinum ad (4 tokens). Small sellers have the same fancy pants access to full featured ads that the largest companies do.

We are pretty stoked about the Marketplace, the hobby and industry needs a modern, full featured choice for buying and selling. Today is our launch, and we have 1500 ads live across all categories and 140+ vendors registered already. Come check it out!

http://marketplace.thereptilereport.com/

I got on just fine later this afternoon! I really like it!

Thanks for chiming in Robyn - I LOVE the concept of the token system!! Great idea!!

Tokens were Chad Brown's idea, and I think really smart.

There is also a ShipYourReptiles tie you can make to your TRRMarketplace profile, so every time you ship a package you get 4 free tokens in your account.

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That's an interesting suggestion, to allow certain sellers to be blocked or "ignored". I'll pass that one along, but I don't have any power to actually implement anything.

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Thanks, it's one of those "nice to have but not required" things, mainly because I noticed a seller whose rep is so bad it precedes him.

Also, I noted that the checkout accepts AmEx, which is awesome considering the high transaction fees AmEx charges; understandably very few merchants in the reptile world accept it.

The reason I choose fauna over kingsnake is because of cost. Probably be the same thing with this. With Facebook and fauna as free outlets, not sure I'd be willing to pay for it.

I get that if you pay more, you get a more guaranteed market share. But that's not a huge motivation to me personally.

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To me this is a solution in search of a problem BUT there is some opportunity as there are certainly problems with the other sites:

Filter by genetics - you could input the morph list from WOBP and have people select genes as they post animals - filter by included gene

Filter by cost

Follow or Block individual sellers

Would be cool to incorporate seller feedback right on the page - some kind of star rating system with comments

You could really leverage some kind of price benchmarking system there - save the cost and morph of anything sold via Buy It Now and open the database public


I mention all of these because it looks like there is an attempt at merging all of the elements into one seamless experience - browse, buy, ship all from the same place at the same time with a nice clean record of each stage of the transaction. Looking forward to seeing the site develop!

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Thanks, it's one of those "nice to have but not required" things, mainly because I noticed a seller whose rep is so bad it precedes him.

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Yes this. Lot of people have kicked themselves after buying from him.

I like the feedback system. I just hope no one abuses it. I'll still be checking fauna before my final vote on whether to buy from them or not.

I don't think the price of tokens is bad at all. When I get my first clutches I'll be selling on this site as well.

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To me this is a solution in search of a problem BUT there is some opportunity as there are certainly problems with the other sites:

Filter by genetics - you could input the morph list from WOBP and have people select genes as they post animals - filter by included gene

Filter by cost

Follow or Block individual sellers

Would be cool to incorporate seller feedback right on the page - some kind of star rating system with comments

You could really leverage some kind of price benchmarking system there - save the cost and morph of anything sold via Buy It Now and open the database public


I mention all of these because it looks like there is an attempt at merging all of the elements into one seamless experience - browse, buy, ship all from the same place at the same time with a nice clean record of each stage of the transaction. Looking forward to seeing the site develop!

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A rating/star system is on the list of things to consider for phase 2, for sure : )