Want It Now Enhancements

[amy]

Why wait for eBay to roll out glitchy enhancements to their Want It Now Ads?  Instead of waiting, head on over to iOffer, the site eBay stole the Want It Now idea from, and list for free and get a free store!  :twistedevil:

***Want It Now Enhancements*** 

September 19, 2005 | 03:49PM PST/PT

In the next week or so we're going to make the following changes:

For Sellers
Sellers will be able to create Favorite Searches within Want It Now to let you quickly see whether anyone is looking for an item you may have. Plus, you'll be able to choose to receive an email whenever a buyer creates a Want It Now post that matches your search criteria.

We've also heard from sellers that you'd like to know when one of your sales is a result of your listing being used as a response to a Want It Now post . So soon we'll also include a note in your End of Item email when your listing sells because of a bid from Want It Now.

For Buyers
When you finish creating a Want It Now post, you'll be shown items that are currently on eBay that may match what you're looking for.

We're also making a few general additions to Want It Now. We're going to add a “Report this post” link on all View Post pages to make it easier for you to let us know about posts that violate Want It Now policy, and to increase awareness about these rules, we'll show more policy information on the Post to Want It Now page.

Later this year we're planning on making more changes designed to help buyers describe the items they're looking for. These will include features such as giving buyers the ability to include pictures, and allowing sellers to ask questions about the desired item. I'll be back with more information about these changes as we get closer to launching them.

If you would like to learn more about Want It Now and these enhancements, please join us for the Want It Now Brown Bag Lunch on the Search discussion board on Thursday, September 29th.

[accentnepal]

Some of that may help, particularly the ability to communicate with the buyer. I have seen people set up store listings in order to give a buyer information. I am afraid they got the report button thingee from Craig's list, where reporting postings has become an outlet for the socially inhibited.