seller hide feature

bambihunter

I don't find this feature, and a forum search didn't find anyone else mentioning it. I will put in a feature request if enough others like the idea...
I would love the ability to hide certain sellers from showing up in both saved search emails as well as search in general. What do you guys think? Am I being unreasonable / unrealistic to not want the same item showing up week after week after week because it is priced twice what they have been selling for? Or, to block the guy that wants $100 to ship a firearm. Or yet another example, simply because the seller was an @$$h@t last time I dealt with them.

bambihunter

This one is much less important, since it has only happened once. It would be nice too if lets say a buyer emails me and says I'll give you $xxx.xx for your item. With no bids, the price can be changed. Recently I spent a week back and forth with a seller since he had the item listed for quite a while and wasn't far off, just a bit further than I wanted to go. Anyway, at first he didn't know how, then once I told him how to do that, he lowered the price. I bid on it. He was going to close the auction early but didn't get it done in time and another bidder won the item. Of course at that point the seller had no choice but to sell it to the other person even though we built a rapport that initially set up the sale that was meant for me at the price it was. If there was a way to "list" it and specify the person bidding on it, then it would sure be easier to do it the right way. Currently, if someone answers a WTB ad, there's no real provision to make sure they get it. Some auction sites the seller can enable "make offer". Perhaps something like that to make sure GB gets its commission

I don't know. There is so many good things about GB (besides all the Purdy, Purdy, guns) [:D][:D] that I hate to change it. But, some minor ways to exclude sellers, exclude buyers (which I think already exists)

bambihunter

What about blocking the words NOT in at least the title of the auction. For me, compared to my disposable income level, I buy a LOT of guns, especially lately. I get so tired of those that are keyword spamming by listing all the popular brands that the item is NOT. Novel idea, tell us what the product is, and from that, we'll deduce what it is not.
Certainly there is some legitimate use of NOT in a listing. I like Remington 700 Titanium rifles and a seller had a rifle that looked nearly identical to one but did not have the actual titanium receiver. It even had the spiral fluted bolt and lightened handle.

Perhaps, if NOT could be programed such that it is a programming switch. That way if some one posts SKS - not ar10, ar15, ak47, m4, then it would delete those keywords if they existed in the listing. I think this is too much effort to make it a modifier.

I dunno, it is 4:15am and my brain is past ready for bed so maybe some of this will seem like I was drunk texting the GB General Discussion group. [:D][:0][B)][:I][:o)]

redhawkk480

quote:Originally posted by bambihunter

This one is much less important, since it has only happened once. It would be nice too if lets say a buyer emails me and says I'll give you $xxx.xx for your item. With no bids, the price can be changed. Recently I spent a week back and forth with a seller since he had the item listed for quite a while and wasn't far off, just a bit further than I wanted to go. Anyway, at first he didn't know how, then once I told him how to do that, he lowered the price. I bid on it. He was going to close the auction early but didn't get it done in time and another bidder won the item. Of course at that point the seller had no choice but to sell it to the other person even though we built a rapport that initially set up the sale that was meant for me at the price it was. If there was a way to "list" it and specify the person bidding on it, then it would sure be easier to do it the right way. Currently, if someone answers a WTB ad, there's no real provision to make sure they get it. Some auction sites the seller can enable "make offer". Perhaps something like that to make sure GB gets its commission

I don't know. There is so many good things about GB (besides all the Purdy, Purdy, guns) [:D][:D] that I hate to change it. But, some minor ways to exclude sellers, exclude buyers (which I think already exists)

he should have listed it as a buy it now auction , if you where both on-line when he done it , a simple email to you with a link to his auction and it would have been over

bambihunter

Great point redhawk. That is kinda what we were trying to do, timing-wise but the post then link as you suggested would have been better.

remingtonoaks

In for the post count

He Dog

Blocking certain sellers could be useful, but my searches are usually so specific I don't get 700 auctions to paw through. I have been weeding through several that have been showing up for the last 7 or 8 weeks. and blocking those would save time, so I am in.

cyberbillp

I'm going to Necro this topic, but I have a completely different reason for having a seller "filtered/blocked" list.

I often, (maybe 50% of the time) find something I am interested in, and only after 15 minutes of scanning photo's and reading, I find the fine print buried in the terms, "We don't honor FFL 03 licenses". Well that's just dandy. I'd like a way to filter that seller.

If they won't honor my license, then then I don't care what they are selling. I'll never buy from them. Even it it's not a C&R item, I won't buy from them, standing on principle. Also, many sellers actually list items IN the actual C&R section, then buried in the description they have "no FFL 03". Genius.

It would make me happy to have a seller filter list that I could use to take those sellers out of my search results.