Topic: Coingig.com Beta - The New Bitcoin Marketplace has Arrived - page 5. (Read 13563 times)

Folks, the issue with renaming stores has been fixed. We've identified two stores that have been affected. Let us know if you are someone experiencing problems. We will fix right away if we already haven't. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I agree that would be really cool, do you know of a better name we can use, right now the closest i see would be our "art & collectibles" section,

I found this: Etsy is an e-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items as well as art and craft supplies.

If you add a craft section bitcoin would have an easy to use etsy.com competitor.

Character limit has been increased to 2000 characters and we have moved the description section underneath the product image, this way its not so cluttered and it's easier to read. We will be introducing description formatting soon so that sellers can use linebreaks and bullets.

As requested, product description character limit increased.

We have also fixed the shipping carrier name issue, where if you chose Other it showed as UPS or if you chose USPS it chose Other. This is now all fixed to the correct shipping carrier.

If you have been having issues marking orders as shipped please try again. The issue should be resolved now. Thanks for reporting!

Sup, folks!

Ken and I got several more thing accomplished. Posting here to keep you updated on what has been done.

1) We changed the way products are displayed the site. From now on, every store owner is given a slot on something what we call Coingig Showcase. We've decided to go away from our previous model of showing all listed products. With this we are going to address two things: steadily growing inventory and redundant looking entries. We plan to allow sellers to select the product they think fits best to be on the front page and promote it to the the Showcase. (Lookout to the changes in the add/edit product form, this is where the sellers will be able to toggle on this feature).

We guarantee equal maximum amount of views for all the sellers via the combination of this unique interface and our exposure algorithm.

2) We have added something, we call Top Store section on the left side of the main page. This is to display stores that score highest in our ranking system. Stores are selected via a formula that takes into consideration user feedback, store inventory and quality of presentation. Basically, the best stores undoubtedly make it and gain higher exposure!

3) We've made more database changes to speed up content delivery.

4) We've made improvements to Coingig statistics page.

Our next steps will be:

1) Multiple images + image preloading
2) Image aspect ration fix (for vertical images)
3) Ability to select a showcase product

Happy buying/selling!

We have also fixed the 413 Request Entity Too Large error. This error came up because there was a limit of 1mb image upload size, we have now increased the limit to 5mb.

The "Checkout" issue was fixed. Sorry for the  inconvenience.

New Updates

1) We have just released a new messaging system for buyers and sellers, this new system will allow better communication between the buyer and the seller and will also greatly increase sales to sellers for those buyers that want to buy your products but are doubtful and have some questions to ask before purchase. Buyers can now ask a question through your product page or through your store page, this was something major that was missing and we finally released it, it still has some minor bugs but the overall functionality works.

2) Our store directory page has now started ranking stores by their activity and the amount of information they provide. Stores that are ranked highest are those that include a store logo, facebook and twitter profiles, and by the number of products they have for sale. So we urge all sellers to please provide the most information so they can be moved to the top of our directory. Our store directory also now includes the number of products each store has next to the store name.


New Bug Fixes

1) We released a new system earlier this week http://www.coingig.com/stats that will let us know if MtGox gets delayed with prices so that it can notify us, since our bitcoin prices are being pulled from the MtGox API when we update every 30 seconds, our new update will ensure that if MtGox goes down, we will not be affected and we will use the last price that was sent to us. You can check out our stats page and see how it works.

2) We have cleaned up some major database redundancies that will make querying faster and an overall faster user experience. We want our site to be accessible and stable 24/7.

Thank you all for your support! We haven't forgotten about all the features/bugs you want us to fix, we have a big list of tasks to do and we will get them all complete so please hold on a little longer

Regarding shipping, you are right, we need to come up with a good solution for that problem. Since each shipping service has their own rates we have to come up with a new way to add specific shipping per the quantity purchased.

Thank you!!! Yes and please let us know how you like the process and how we can make it better

Great service guys. Two thumbs up! Now I await my first sale so I can get an idea of the sale process.

Hey, man, we got a large list of features going to improve both seller/buyer experience and make it unique. (about 50 thing at this moment)

Can you please elaborate a little bit more on your request? What do you mean by store based shipping rate?
Are you saying that entering price per product is a hassle and you'd rather set something once for everything you list?

You can add the store logo in the settings section of your account. You can also add your store's description in there. Eventually, we also plan to have custom themes.

Added a store but you need some more features.

I'd rather set a weight/value to my items and set a store based shipping rate. I can ship one item for 8 dollars or 4 items for 10 dollars.Not $8 a piece. Need's some work there

I'm unsure how I add a store image, I don't see the option anywhere?

It's free to host the products, may never sell any but doing my part to help ya out

We would like to introduce to everyone our very own Fair Exposure Algorithm (FEA).

What does FEA do?

It is a system that will give products from all sellers the opportunity to be shown on the front page equally as much as eachother.

How did we do this?

The FEA dynamically keeps track of views of all seller products, determines the ones that were shown the least, and bumps them up into the buyer queue.

For example, if you have just listed a product, it has 0 views. This product will be given preference to be at the front page until it acquires as many views as the rest of the products. Eventually the system stabilizes and everyone gets to share of the front page!

Here you can track the performance of your products against others:

http://www.coingig.com/plot

We also plan to roll out things like (Featured products and Hot products)

Hot products will be a frame around the product that makes it more noticeable on the homepage, this will show which products are selling the most and/or has the best reviews.

Featured products will be a new section on top of the homepage that will be showcasing all the most popular hand chosen products.

Check out how your products are performing against others and let us know if you guys like it and how we can improve our Fair Exposure Algorithm.

Thanks!

We just finished adding this feature for you! Please check it out and let us know if it works fine for you.

We have also included the internal note in the Product statistics window under the products tab as well!

I'd like the number to appear for me, but not for the customer.

It sounds like you want the number to appear on the order invoice as well. Is this right?