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If DPP were to add a "Trade Assistant", how would you like it to work?

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If DPP were to add a "Trade Assistant", how would you like it to work?
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If Disney Pin Place were to add a "Trade Assistant", how would you prefer that it work? Please give me in depth details. I am considering adding the feature to finally be on par, or better than, PinPics in most respects.

I need your feedback!
 
Thank you for the time you have and will be spending on this most important endeavor.

Actually, if you could make it as much like the Trade Assistant (TA) on the old PinPics site as possible, this would suit my needs perfectly.

For I am still using the old TA because of two key features not available with the TA on the new site:

1. Trade requests are scheduled to be sent out later. This gives me a chance to go back and review, edit, or cancel them.

2. Trade requests are sent out via email which will include the email addresses of the one making the trade request. This gives me a chance to do some checking on that email address before I decide whether or not to respond or not.
 
I liked the system of PinPic's old site.

- All requests sent out at once (but I don't really care whether they're all sent out at the same time or not, it's easier though), at the same time.

- You were able to choose to stay anonymous. An example would be, I chose to hide my email address from public (because of obvious reasons), so when people would click the number next to "people trading" they wouldn't see my email. I'm extremely careful on the internet with my email and details. Whenever someone would send me a request it would say "DisneyPinTrader offers anonymous…". Anonymous would be me. Then, of course, whenever I replied, they would see my email. Or they would see my email when I would send out requests myself.
 
Basically it had a "what can I get for this pin" feature and a "what i could trade for that pin"

You click on either of those and it gives you a list based off of your wants (for the first) and your trades for the latter, and it pulls the pins from everyone listed as wanting or trading those pins.

You click the check boxes of the ones you want the most then it sends an email with your offer to everyone with that pin for the one you're offering.
 
I would love this ...if new traders join ,as I said I could help moderate the trades that might not go thru completely,I hope you can get this done ,you have done so much so far and I for one appreciate it
 
I guess I am confused about the "moderating" of the trades. Why does someone need to moderate? Wouldn't it be a private transaction between two people?
 
I think on the new PinPics you can see who you will be sending a trade request to based on which pin you would like to trade away. This gives you an idea of who you will be trading with.

I would like to see as part of the trade assistant some way you can check on feedback or if there is a feedback indicator. Much like eBay where you can see the score with the person's name. This way I don't have to copy their email address, log onto Dizpins and check the references. It saves a few extra steps rather than researching about the person after you read the trade offer.
 
I think people are asking for them to be queued. So they can check it before they blast the same person with 500 emails.

Also some want the choice of recieving and sending as annonymous, while others dont want to be bothered.
 
The trade request on Pinpics was not good at all in my opinion. It would pick for you what you should trade. It is ok to suggest an equal pin but I want the ability to pick which pins I am willing to trade. I also want to be able to send trade requests to one person at a time. Not a bunch of people. I hated that about Pinpics. An area to add any comments regarding the trade would be nice.
 
On the new version of Pinpics, they did have a fairly nice way of comparing trades and wants but it had flaws. If you sent a trade request and someone answered, it did not reference your original request. You had no idea what they were responding on. Instead of the requests going to people's email addresses, how about it going into our Pin Forum inbox? If it goes via email, it may end up in people's junk mail.

 
The TradeAssist is still working on the old pinpics if you still have an account and want to try it out. I attempted to cut and paste, but it didn't work
 
Usually if a trade goes bad ,you could normally email pinpics and they could help out ,I wanted to suggest it for new folks like a third party go between
 
OK thanks for the ideas folks.

I will think this through and post what I think it should be like. It probably won't be exactly like PinPics (for example, I don't want to moderate or get in the middle of people's private transactions.... that spell legal trouble), but I'll make something really cool that sends out emails and makes its easy to see your requested trades, etc.
 
It sounds like a great idea. I like the old pinpics system so anything similar to that sounds good to me. Although dont think involving third parties would be a way to go.

Maybe just somehow linking with DPF feedback to make feedback here more pertinent.

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I hope I'd be wrong, but I don't think people will recognize the difference. if you make it easy for people trade, send out emails, etc, people will hold you responsible for the trades that go bad because DPP made it possible for the trade to happen. You'll probably need a lot of large, bold, red text at every step of the way saying DPP is not responsible and will not offer resolution. And even that might not be enough. Pinpics didn't start out expecting to deal with "trades gone wrong." It was just an inventory database, that Britt added a trade assistant too fairly early on too. All the other problems came later.

If nothing else, maybe the email process doesn't run through your site, but simply brings up a window to the user's own email accounts. And users can cut and paste the "trade" portion from results generated through DPP somehow. That would mean, it would be contacting one person at a time, no mass bombing a user. And maybe avoid the problem Pinpics has where bounced emails from inactive users end up getting Pinpics treated as a spammer by and ISP, and so none of the emails go through to any user with a hotmail account, etc.

It won't be slick and easy, but may go to reinforce in a way people can't ignore, that DPP is not responsible.
 



Like this idea
 

I was just going to say this same thing. I think the best course of action would be to not have the trades emailed from DPP, but give the email the user has provided. if user declines to have their email visible, they will have to initiate trades.
 
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