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Mr. Hedgie and I were talking about this last night when I was going through the classifieds thread! I was literally about to come on here and suggest/request this! Apparently you guys are mind readers. Love it!

I think this is great! I love how you are always on the ball with features. Hopefully everyone will appreciate the hard work that comes with making features like that.

Awesome upgrade! Thanks Bees!

Great feature!

Question: do we need to put ‘for sale’ and ‘looking’ before the thread title or will it be automatic?

@NaturallyCathy: it’s automatic!

@regberadaisy: Schweet. Didn’t want to be redundant! Expect me to use this new feature A LOT.

I actually have a question. IF someone comments on your listing w/o using the reply button will you get notified?

@regberadaisy: To get email updates whenever anyone posts to your listing (whether or not they’ve replied to you), you can subscribe to your own listing! Just check off the “subscribe” checkbox when you post to the Classifieds…

yay!!

@mrbee: oh dur, now that’s just brilliant.

How do you close a listing after a sale has been made?

@regberadaisy: If you’re viewing a listing you created, there should be a link to CLOSE it?

It should say, “CLOSE TOPIC”… let me know if it’s showing up for you.

@mrbee: woohoo! see it! Thanks.

Ok that’s awesome! I’ll have listings up right away. As soon as I can take photos.

Great feature!!!

Oh, this is really nice! I think I’ll be using this!!

Neat!

Question: if you list something and it hasn’t sold in let’s say a month, is it ok to make a new listing to bump it up? And I guess close the old one?

@mrskc: Sure! Although if it didn’t sell the first time, you might want to add a new picture… or lower the price!

You are making it harder and harder to resist “going Gold”!

This is great!! Looking forward to using it

So is it the case then that we’re no longer allowed to sell things on the boards unless we upgrade to gold?

@rattles: We’re leaving the June Classifieds thread up, so you can buy and sell through the end of the month!

Allowing classifieds threads on the boards was always meant to be a short term thing… at first we didn’t allow them but then we did as a temporary measure:
http://suggestions.hellobee.com/topic/classifieds#post-500

But you can still comment on any classifieds listings as a non-Gold member!

@mrbee: I remember that, but obviously at that time gold didn’t exist and everyone would have had access. I’m disappointed because this is the first time that non-golds are losing something that they already had/could do (as opposed to creating a feature that hadn’t already existed for gold members to use). None of that is meant to take away from your work at creating and maintaining the structure!

@rattles: We actually didn’t allow classifieds threads on the boards at first, since it was a violation of our self promotion policy (and we were too slammed with a new baby to build a proper classifieds!).

Eventually some users asked us if they could start a monthly classifieds thread… I knew it’d be a long time before we got to Classifieds, so we said ok:
http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-word-on-classifieds

The monthly threads definitely weren’t meant to be an official feature… sorry if it came off that way! In the future, we’ll be more careful about allowing unofficial stuff on the boards… didn’t mean to disappoint!

Great feature!

Can I suggest that the original poster be auto-subscribed to the their original post? I think that will cut down on missed replies!

@mrbee: Is it too late to make a suggestion?

@sunny: It’s a little tricky for us, since we have to be careful of the number of email alerts we send out (to avoid getting blocked by email providers)… we got a similar request for boards but had to say no for that reason:
http://suggestions.hellobee.com/topic/subscribe

But Classifieds might be a different case… so we might consider this if there’s enough interest! Would you mind posting your suggestion here, so we can keep track of interest?
http://suggestions.hellobee.com/

@NaturallyCathy: Not at all! Feel free to suggest away here, or you could also try our suggestions forum!
http://suggestions.hellobee.com/

@mrbee: To keep the page uncluttered, maybe automatically move closed classified posts to the bottom of the page? That way they don’t het lost sandwiched between lots of open threads. To save people from disappointment when something’s sold but still on the front page.

@NaturallyCathy: We may come up with a fancier way to hide listings that are no longer active… we could make sure it worked in the way you described if we do that!

Could you post your idea to the suggestions forum, just so we can keep track of it? That would really help us keep track of your feedback!!

@mrbee: Will do

Cool, sounds like a good feature! I have scored and sold some good loot using HB thus far so I’m all for this.

awesome feature!

@mrbee: Another question. Do bee meet ups go in the ‘upcoming events’ portion of the classifieds?

@NaturallyCathy: sure or you can just post those to the boards if you’d prefer!

Awe.some. I was always too far behind when I’d finally see the listings and just gave up, this is great!!