I like the clean, professional format of the marketplace. I get the feeling however that there was a closed pre-load or some such as there are a ton of snakes already available on the website. Was there an initial invitation sent out for breeders to load their snakes, or did folks really that quickly load their ads in less than a day's time?
My one gripe for the website thus far is as follows. When I select an ad to view and then want to go back to my review of the adds, clicking the back button on the browser returns me to page 1 of the listing, not the page I last viewed. So if I clicked an add on page 12, when I want to go back to page 12 to continue viewing the ads I haven't seen yet, I then need to navigate from page 1 back to page 12 again instead of merely continuing where I left off. I imagine this is a coding "issue". I'm mentioning it for more user-friendliness. I've spent some time building HMI's (human machine interfaces) so I'm approaching it from that perspective. What would I as a user like to be able to do / see - which I believe is the goal here. Maximum user-friendliness and intuitiveness.
Otherwise, site looks solid. I fully understand this website is brand new, just trying to help out. Has lots of potential - as is apparent by the amount of interest from breeder's posting. I didn't take notice of this, but being able to add reviews to those who post - where you can directly see their user review, would be really great. Are there also any intentions of denying breeder's privilege if they have repeated infractions to try and help "clean" the pool of kids that pee in it? Both options should be doable assuming the user's history and postings are tracked. I think it is since you can see "other postings by this user". Attach a rating to each item sold, asking the purchase for a review and then link that review to the user. Just a thought, but that may be more difficult to do if buyers don't need to register. That said, you could encourage reviews by doing "give-aways" for those who write reviews of their experience of a registered breeder. Again, just some ideas.
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