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Hi Zingo can you please confirm with admins or can tell us what this means:-

Admins have informed me that new threads will be LIVE for 10 days, then will close, and another thread will need to be created after it closes and you will have to reference your old thread for any past activity.
If every 10 days the threads gonna closed then how the buyers will gonna decide which threads have great feedbacks and where to buy? It will be tedious for buyers to decide from where to buy. Also it will give a lots of scammers a chance to just pay $36 and provide NOTHING making new accounts and scam pplz here. I DO NOT think it is a good idea.

I want to open 2 of my popular SBT's and ready to pay for it but could you please clarify this. As if we need to pay 36$ every 10 days it will be pretty much expensive. 36*3*2 216 USD a month expense for me ;)
 
Hi Zingo can you please confirm with admins or can tell us what this means:-

If every 10 days the threads gonna closed then how the buyers will gonna decide which threads have great feedbacks and where to buy? It will be tedious for buyers to decide from where to buy. Also it will give a lots of scammers a chance to just pay $36 and provide NOTHING making new accounts and scam pplz here. I DO NOT think it is a good idea.

I want to open 2 of my popular SBT's and ready to pay for it but could you please clarify this. As if we need to pay 36$ every 10 days it will be pretty much expensive. 36*3*2 216 USD a month expense for me ;)

This is actually a good move on Jon's part to get rid of monopolies. If you have testimonials from your old thread just quote that in your new thread. New sellers still need to provide free review copies to qualified reviewers before they can take orders.

It cost $1000+ to keep your thread up in the other WF every month, $216 is nothing compared to that.

If you can't afford the monthly fees it means you just been phased out, i.e: time to move on.
 
^^ Definitely $216 a month is expensive on top of that we need to post thread every 10 days ->> PM moderators ->> Moderators will have to approve every freaking thread every week (mods will be pretty much busy in filtering shit) ->> Supposed long delay in approving thread ->> May be if we are lucky enough we will get our threads approved in 4-5 days ->> you just lost lots of customers as your old threads were closed and your new threads were not approved in-between->> you loose business ->> How you gonna pay $216 a month?
 
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The problem as a buyer is that I subscribe to threads to keep track of which services I'm interested in.

If the threads keep closing and new ones opening for the same service, it will be easy for me to lose track and I will have no idea when a new thread starts for that service.

Just wanted to point that out.
 
I must say, the sentiment was good here with enforcing payment for new threads, but holy fuck that was piss poor execution. I don't really give a shit because my livelihood doesn't depend on my threads in the BST, however:

1) closing all active threads was fucking stupid (because new threads need to be paid for anyway, so any noise would naturally taper off over time)

2) closing all threads after 10 days is fucking stupid. It's going to create more work for the admins over time, and the admins don't give a fuck anymore, so it's going to be neglected.

I don't know, I've been around here for a while, I've posted a shit ton here before, the BST is only a small percentage of why I'm here. But my god, what a fuck up.
 
2) closing all threads after 10 days is fucking stupid. It's going to create more work for the admins over time, and the admins don't give a fuck anymore, so it's going to be neglected.
+1 for this :)
 
OMG !!! :ugone2far: $36 per 10 days. After 10 days its would be closed and create new thread on same rate means its come expensive deal .what about the old thread that also put on closed and don't think so failed to get new clients that way ??? :tongue2:

Its great idea to maintain the good business on professionally way as well but keep go though on high rate and nothing much .
 
I must say, the sentiment was good here with enforcing payment for new threads, but holy fuck that was piss poor execution. I don't really give a shit because my livelihood doesn't depend on my threads in the BST, however:

1) closing all active threads was fucking stupid (because new threads need to be paid for anyway, so any noise would naturally taper off over time)

2) closing all threads after 10 days is fucking stupid. It's going to create more work for the admins over time, and the admins don't give a fuck anymore, so it's going to be neglected.

I don't know, I've been around here for a while, I've posted a shit ton here before, the BST is only a small percentage of why I'm here. But my god, what a fuck up.

I APPROVE YOUR POST.

On top of closing thread mess every 10 days just think how long will be the queue to get new threads approved? I bet there will be huge delay in approving 100ths of threads every 10 days.
 
This is something more than what we have asked for. As a seller, it will be hard to maintain new service threads everytime. Taking care of payments every 10 days is again tedious. As a buyer, you will loose track of your favourite services as we often tend to subscribe to our favorite threads.

A decent start up fee for a service would have fulfilled the cause. If not a start-up fee, make it a monthly subscription rather than paying every 10 days. Let us continue with the same service thread. I was wondering, if the admins can make it simple and yet effective for all of us.

It might also raise the cost of services as service providers can always manipulate the price. There's a lot of uncertainty for a service thread that's valid for just 10 days. This is gonna raise the price so that the sellers can earn back the profit from the first 2-3 client every 10 days. This will be real bad for the buyers. No more $4 Social bookmarking, price is gonna rise. Just saying.....

We all want to resume our business. It's better if we come up with a clear decision at the earliest, mentioning all the payment info (where to make the payment, how much) etc.. Will see how this discussion goes.
 
^^ Definitely $216 a month is expensive on top of that we need to post thread every 10 days ->> PM moderators ->> Moderators will have to approve every freaking thread every week (mods will be pretty much busy in filtering shit) ->> Supposed long delay in approving thread ->> May be if we are lucky enough we will get our threads approved in 4-5 days ->> you just lost lots of customers as your old threads were closed and your new threads were not approved in-between->> you loose business ->> How you gonna pay $216 a month?

I thought the whole process was automated? I disagree with lowering the price but it def. should be changed to pay per bump. That way sellers can't make buyers post their transaction ID as a mean to bump the thread.
 
2) closing all threads after 10 days is fucking stupid. It's going to create more work for the admins over time, and the admins don't give a fuck anymore, so it's going to be neglected.

I fully agree that 10 days and then thread should be looked at. It can take multiple days to get reviews back then the thread will close.

I think 30 - 45 days would be enough time for the member to get things rolling and then they could link back to the old thread for previous review, they could also quote previous reviews in new thread.

Also there are services outside of the Links and SEO area such as the general BST area and content area that are very useful and will no longer be able to thrive due to the quick locking of thread the ROI is not there. It would suck to lose some of these and add value here to a lot of people.

This is just my 2 cents, I do not make the high level decisions here I just try to keep order and help the providers as best I can.

I hope the 10 days will be reevaluated, change is never easy.

Just increasing the live post days to 30 - 45 would be an easy fix and everyone could move on with there biz.
 
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