shetlandcars Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Its becoming an epidemic, items for sale with no prices - I might be interested if I had an idea of the price - who was the time to PM everyone just to find out the price - at least have an offer above or around - give us a clue!How many lost sales occur because people don't put a price? Martian48 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owre-weel Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Its becoming an epidemic, items for sale with no prices - I might be interested if I had an idea of the price - who was the time to PM everyone just to find out the price - at least have an offer above or around - give us a clue!How many lost sales occur because people don't put a price?Even worse is when you reply by PM as there is no phone number, they don't bother to get back to you. Grrrrrrr! Using the location thingy helps as well, especially when they say you must collect. Another bug bare is folk who say they'll buy something, then that's the last you here from them. Noo I feel better that I've got that off my chest <-) Martian48 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 If its there being no price stated in the price box we're talking about, the software is contributing somewhat, as it only accepts numerical digits. If you put a '£' sign in the box, or more than one price, ie. '5.00 - 10.00' etc, it accepts it when you put it in the box, but resets itself during posting to read '0.00' and there's no warning or error message from the software to tell you it does this. So unless you catch it by by proofing an ad after posting, you end up with folk believing what they put in the price box was posted as they had it, when in reality the reset during posting has caused '0.00' to be posted instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian.smith Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Ghostie thats very technical Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaepshot Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 I have found that the only way to make a price appear in the ad is to include it in the item description. If you put a price in the box provided, it comes up as "offers". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Ghostie is completely right. Also about there being no sensible error message either! The prices have to be numeric. If they are anything other than numeric then standardised wording appears for that category or it reverts to 0.00 It's not freetext like the old system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owre-weel Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 I think the most common mistake is to add a "£" sign. Perhaps if there was a fixed "£" sign to the left of the box people would naturally just add the figures. Just a thought. Malcolm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 Perhaps a little 'defensive' programming might help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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