Dear Members,
Every day in between 100.000 and 150.000 new collectibles are offered on Delcampe.
In this diversity we can find modest items as well as rare and invaluable objects. The other side of the coin: items for which there is a great interest find themselves hidden in the middle of all the less rare and attractive items. As a consequence of this, increasingly more members are asking us to improve the global quality of the items proposed on the website.
We understand this legitimate request. We find it very important that our members appreciate our website and that they feel well on it. It is for this reason that we try to improve the website every day.
To meet this justified need, we have decided to undertake a big project with you on the whole of the website: “Sane Listings”. This project aims to improve the global quality of available items and will happen in several phases spread over a total of two years.
Presentation of the Project: "Sane listings"
First stage: Fixed fee charged to the seller for each item sold
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Today, we announce the first stage to you which will start September 1st.
Its objective is to limit the sale of items of too little value or for which there is too little interest. We are aware that these items can bring happiness to many collectors, but there are too many of them in the categories. This burdens our servers, makes searches slower and makes browsing of the website tiresome at times for buyers.
As a first step we will charge sellers a fixed fee of 0,15 EUR (0,18 USD/ 0,12 GBP/ 0,18 CHF/ 0,18 CAD) for each sold item.
These are of course not insertion fees. Putting up for sale will remain free of charge for members, a fee will only be charged for sold items.
This fixed rate will be calculated once a month, like our commission fee (which remains unchanged). Our last change of rates dates back to more than 4 years ago.These additional means will be used to improve the quality of the whole of the website (new features, more advertizing for the website, better services, etc.)
Of course, items of lesser value still have a place on our website, since we are a website for collectors and we are aware that these items bring hapiness to some of them. However, we advise sellers of these items to group them into batches. Our team remains at your disposal for advice or help (especially concerning your low value items).
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In principle, this first stage will be the only stage of the project which has an obligatory financial aspect.
In time, when several stages will have been put in work, it will be much more pleasant for buyers to browse through the website in search of news items for their collection. In turn, the sellers will appreciate the fact that their sales are better respresented and thus more attractive.
We are also aware that this change will have an impact on our statistics related to the number of items (on sale, sold monthly, etc.). However, we know that this will improve your daily experience on our website and this is what matters most to us.
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Future stages... Express your opinion!
This first stage will of course not be sufficient to improve the quality of the listings. This is why we have other ideas in store for the future.
Some ideas which are under consideration for future stages of this project are the following:
- the possibility for a buyer to exclude the sales of a certain seller in a listing,
- automatic closure of sales which have not received any visits for a certain period of time,
- an automatic price reduction for items fulfilling certain conditions,
- the insertion of at least one picture,
- changing unsold auctions to fixed price sales,
- etc.
As you can see, there are many ideas for the future of this project. However, we find it very important to have input from our members. This is why we started a new poll. In it you can express your ideas for improving the quality of items offered on the website. We'd like to hear everyone's opinion: both sellers and buyers. Help us by commenting our ideas or by proposing your own.
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