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The marketplace listings are live in the Sniper. They have been for many months now, but I forgot to post here and close this request.
Paypal is definitely doable and we want to do it.
The outside developer is new. We have made this a priority so we have an outside developer working on it instead of doing it in house. Doing it in house caused it be slower because other priorities took precedence.
The marketplace is not our main business. Video game prices is the main line of business. Improvements to the pricing site have a much bigger impact on our users and business so those were made priorities over marketplace improvements. We still add features to the marketplace and continually want to improve it, but it isn't always the top priority.
Here is an example. We improved the search function on the site so searches are more likely to find the desired result regardless of punctutation, spacing, nicknames, etc. This improvement impacted about 1.3 million searches so we prioritized it above paypal.
For the new year, we decided to make paypal a bigger priority so we have an outside developer working on it. Hopefully it will be available in the near future.
If I could I would implement this tomorrow, but Paypal integration is a major pain. Their software is very difficult to work with and getting it working while another payment method is offered adds a whole other level of complexity. We have an outside developer who has Paypal integration as their top priority.
It has taken longer than we expected because we have put other features and improvements above Paypal integration because they are easier to implement and give more benefit to existing users because they are used more often.
That is very true. There are lots of mail processing companies that will give discounts on USPS shipments if you ship it bulk. UPS, DHL, and FedEx both provide services like that.
USPS is still cheapest for regular first class mail though. But packages shipped first class can be cheaper with other providers.
What is this feature request referring to? We have Mario and Duck Hunt listed on our site. Please let me know if there is something wrong with our listing or something else we need to do with this feature request.
This has been fixed.
* Punctuation is ignored. example: "Final Fantasy Collectors Edition" shows correct results
* Conjuctions and prepositions ("the", "and", "but", "for".....) are ignored. example: "The Legend of Zelda" shows correct result
* Spacing on many popular searches is fixed. example: "Mega man" and "Megaman"
* Searching by nicknames works on common nicknames. example: "GTA", "MGS", "CoD", "DDR"
We will be monitoring search results more closely and improving it on a weekly basis.
We also added the capability to store multiple UPC's for a game to reduce the number of barcode scanning errors that bring up no results. We will continually add new UPC's as we find them.
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An update for everyone. We have processed our first test payment with paypal's test environment and our test servers. Some finer points to work out but all is progressing nicely with this feature.