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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: dk1187 on October 22, 2012, 02:04 pm

Title: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: dk1187 on October 22, 2012, 02:04 pm
Currently SR offers search result sorting by bestselling, seller rank, & newest. I think it couldn't hurt, & in fact would certainly be widely utilized, if a "most expensive" & "least expensive" category, such as is found on Amazon or eBay, were added to the search sort options. This would be very helpful for when one has checked out their primary orders but still has that $5-10 worth of coins left in their account which is usually quite difficult to find any use for. Navigating to a category of interest & then being able to click one of these sort options (in this case "lowest price") would allow people to look through all the single pill, 1/4g, or etc. small order quantities with the desire to make the most of the leftover coins in their accounts much quicker & easier. I think this feature would certainly be widely utilized if implemented. Any feedback appreciated. Thanks!

edit: with another eBay adaptation, this feature would be EVEN better if the price sort options were "lowest/highest price incl. shipping cost," so people would immediately know if their funds are sufficient, without having to cart an item first & then calculate shipping.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Reece on October 23, 2012, 02:45 am
I was thinking this earlier when looking for bulk amounts of a substance. This would be useful.
I second this.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Ederlein on October 24, 2012, 11:53 am
Sort by price is definitely a missing feature on silkroad!

and even more, if vendors would have to enter information about amount of product, a sorting by best price per amount would be possible.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: liesistruth on November 06, 2012, 01:14 am
considering how easily(I imagine, considering there are already multiple others) you guys could add a new listing sorting option(s), using highest/lowest price(with/w.o P+P ?) I believe it would be a widely-used and much appreciated(not least by myself) feature to add to SR.

Peace and Love,

liesistruth
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: mickymisseri on November 06, 2012, 07:19 pm
I'm with you OP, it would really help me too.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Cali4niaLove on November 08, 2012, 07:24 pm
I would take this suggestion a step further, although it would require significant coding, it would greatly improve the overall SR experience:

Currently vendors list the quantity (weight) of their listing in the title.

Instead, the admins running SR could look at each drug and determine what are the most common/popular weights sold. For weed, for example, it would be something like:
Gram, Eighth, Quarter, Ounce, Quarter-Pound, Half-Pound, Pound, *Custom*

For Pills, there could be two factors, MG and Quantity
5mg, 10mg, 20mg, 30mg, *Other*
1 Pill, 5 Pills, 10 Pills, 20 Pills, 100 Pills, *Custom*

When vendors posted listings, they would choose these descriptors....couple with a "Price" filter, this would IMMENSELY improve the searching process on SR. Imagine, you log on, "Hmmm I want a quarter of weed"
First, click "filter by weight", select "quarter ounce"
Second, click "filter by price", select "lowest to highest"

Now, you have exactly what you are looking for, organized by price. That's my 2cents
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: liesistruth on November 09, 2012, 02:12 am
I would take this suggestion a step further, although it would require significant coding, it would greatly improve the overall SR experience:

Currently vendors list the quantity (weight) of their listing in the title.

Instead, the admins running SR could look at each drug and determine what are the most common/popular weights sold.

...

When vendors posted listings, they would choose these descriptors....couple with a "Price" filter, this would IMMENSELY improve the searching process on SR. Imagine, you log on, "Hmmm I want a quarter of weed"
First, click "filter by weight", select "quarter ounce"
Second, click "filter by price", select "lowest to highest"

Now, you have exactly what you are looking for, organized by price. That's my 2cents

add my 2cents to that, and we have 4cents for this idea  ;D
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: tommygun on November 11, 2012, 02:58 am
Absolutely, I feel this is a "must have" for future changes
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Naughty Dog on November 13, 2012, 07:59 pm
I would for sure use this option if it were available.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Cali4niaLove on November 14, 2012, 04:18 am
I'd be curious to hear someone from the Road chime in...maybe this new feature could go live with the website re-launch? Ha, I'm dreaming, but it would be nice to hear an official statement about these ideas.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: brusselsprout on November 14, 2012, 10:09 am
Definite +1 for more sorting options.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Anonymous63 on November 17, 2012, 04:44 am
This would be a great idea.... it would make it much easier to find just the right item ;)
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: puppydog on November 17, 2012, 06:15 pm
I think we all would benefit from this 
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: TK1991 on November 17, 2012, 10:33 pm
I think this would also help with flow on the site. I know I am constantly "window shopping" looking for affordable products and getting rid of my extra change. So as well as making the experience more enjoyable it would also speed up shopping, bogging down the site less. I second this OP
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: debbydownerr on November 25, 2012, 07:56 am
Advanced search or even sort by price would be a welcome addition. Dear powers that be, read this post please!
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: smeghead on November 25, 2012, 01:36 pm
DPR, make it so good sir.

  ;D
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: hokusai on November 26, 2012, 03:28 am
+1!

We need to be able to sort low to high and high to low.

SR could also use boxes to input the lower limit and upper limit for price. What good is sorting low to high if you need to browse through pages of super cheap small quantities and sample sizes? How helpful is high to low if you need to look at all those mega huge listings (I dunno about you guys, but I can't see myself ever buying a QP of weed)?

I think the two features go hand-in-hand.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Moon Fried on November 26, 2012, 03:59 am
I'd love to see this on SR, would help people who only have a certain amount of money to spend.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: niemtel on November 26, 2012, 04:17 am
I agree with bot of the features stated. It would help a lot to be able to sort via price and weight.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: smeghead on December 01, 2012, 01:41 am
So when can we expect to see this in action ?
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: danknugsdun on December 01, 2012, 02:37 am
I'd welcome this for the TOTAL amount (unit price + pnp).

It would be to easy for vendors to capitalize and claim top spot by offer 100kgs of coke for 0.00000001BTC then postage being several thousands of bitcoins.

Dank
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: hades143 on December 03, 2012, 04:53 am
bump for sort by price search. I HATE having to sort through pages and pages of delicious looking items that my constantly broke ass can't afford.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: SuperHans68 on December 05, 2012, 04:08 am
im pretty sure price search was available a while back then it went away, but yes i agree we need a price sorting or even better would be to sort by common quantities.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: brusselsprout on December 06, 2012, 02:34 am
I'd welcome this for the TOTAL amount (unit price + pnp).

It would be to easy for vendors to capitalize and claim top spot by offer 100kgs of coke for 0.00000001BTC then postage being several thousands of bitcoins.

Dank
Very important point, people do that on ebay and amazon all the time, it pisses me off.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: toranchula on December 08, 2012, 12:40 am
YES! I've been saying this for the last few months... I swear it was on here before, but it's definitely not available now. And it should be.
I also think more sub-categories should be added. Perhaps simply breaking down each drug category by the weight of the product...

Cannabis > Weed >
> 1 LB+(12)
> 1/2 LB(19)
> 1/4 LB(43)
> 2 oz+(27)
> 1 oz(107)
> 1/2 oz(230)
> 1/4 oz(412)
> 1/8 oz(630)
> gram(1,324)

Should look like this... in a perfect world.  ::)

Yup that's how it should be, or at least be able to search a category. I hate being in the weed category search 1/4 and get over 6500 listings when there is only about 600 to choose from.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: debbydownerr on January 02, 2013, 09:20 pm
Bump for great convenience.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: DankSources on January 04, 2013, 12:11 am
bump
bumpity bump
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Rumtumtum on January 05, 2013, 08:40 pm
+1 from me too!

A few times I've found myself wishing we could sort by price - if you guys could make it happen I for one promise to buy even more drugs in 2013! :P
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: edar on January 05, 2013, 08:49 pm
good ideas folks
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Moon Fried on January 12, 2013, 07:42 pm
Bump, lots of people suggesting this in multiple threads over the last few months.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: bynter on January 13, 2013, 10:01 am
I'm personally against this idea. It encourages making hasty purchases and choosing the cheapest listing. The current system forces you to browse, read reviews, and ask around in the vendor review threads. I think being forced to do so is a good thing. and you need to remember that this isn't ebay. All drugs are not created equal. You'd discourage sales from vendors who sell products that are more expensive and higher quality. and you couldn't just go to the last page if you're looking for high quality stuff, since it'd be mixed with the average quality stuff being sold by smaller vendors that need to sell it more expensively to profit. Additionally, how would you circumvent the matter of amounts? .5/g meth would always end up being listed before the bulk orders.

To sum it up, there's no way such a thing would be able to sort listings accurately, since there's so many variables.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: GerOne on January 15, 2013, 08:36 am
+1

Would love to have this.  :)
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: BBFish on January 15, 2013, 01:41 pm
Just joined your community!
I have been reading different topics on the forum for the last few hours, and the next think I did, was try to see what are the prices of MDMA here in comparison to street prices in Australia. The first think of all, that I noticed and thought should be mentioned, was why there is no option to rank the search by category?!

And as I saw the next minute, wasn't the first :D


So yes, here is my vote also , DO IT!
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: iMaverick on January 15, 2013, 02:17 pm
voting 1+
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: nexuslol on January 16, 2013, 01:00 pm
We need this they should make a sticky explaining why we dont there got to be a reason to make it extra hard for people to shop around.

o and someone said we should have a sort by weight with standard weights for weed 1/8, 1/4, 4/9 oz etc. i think it is a great idea with one major flaw. Is it not kinda stupid to use a unit of measurment that is so old and antiquated that only 2 or is it 3 countries in the whole world still use it ? I say we use the old units of "Talent" instead ! that is so old that noone use it anymore ! It is less logical then even half whole and sixths of oz and pound and whatnot it is called.  1 Talent is 60 Mina and  a Mina is 60 Shekels, easy peasy

we speak english here because it is a world renowned language that is used all over the world. So why cant you yanks act the same and learn to USE THE FUCKING METRIC SYSTEM !
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Moon Fried on January 16, 2013, 05:11 pm
We need this they should make a sticky explaining why we dont there got to be a reason to make it extra hard for people to shop around.

o and someone said we should have a sort by weight with standard weights for weed 1/8, 1/4, 4/9 oz etc. i think it is a great idea with one major flaw. Is it not kinda stupid to use a unit of measurment that is so old and antiquated that only 2 or is it 3 countries in the whole world still use it ? I say we use the old units of "Talent" instead ! that is so old that noone use it anymore ! It is less logical then even half whole and sixths of oz and pound and whatnot it is called.  1 Talent is 60 Mina and  a Mina is 60 Shekels, easy peasy

we speak english here because it is a world renowned language that is used all over the world. So why cant you yanks act the same and learn to USE THE FUCKING METRIC SYSTEM !

We do... for every other fucking drug. Leave the weed to us.

Who uses 4/9 oz? Lol what?

It's pretty much like...
1/8oz
1/4oz
1/2oz
1oz
QP
HP
LB+

If were were to have categories, I think anything less than 1/2oz should stay in one category, otherwise things would get a little messy.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: deep987 on January 16, 2013, 10:20 pm
They are certainly able to better categorize by weight, it could be as simple as breaking down categories farther than how they currently do. For example, there is a category called "Drugs" that has various subcategories, one of which is "Cannabis". Cannabis has various subcategories, one of which is "Weed". You could have subcategories of Weed called:
1/8th oz, 3.5g or lower
1/4 oz, 7 g
1/2 oz, 14g
1 oz, 28g
QP, 1/4 Lb, 112g
Larger than QP

I believe this would greatly aid in making purchases. If people aren't looking to be that specific, just don't navigate beyond "weed" in the menus.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: chil on January 17, 2013, 07:35 pm
Bump, lots of people suggesting this in multiple threads over the last few months.

Yeah, really, I fail to understand why this feature hasn't been restored yet and what would be the reasons not to do so.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: Moon Fried on January 17, 2013, 08:08 pm
Bump, lots of people suggesting this in multiple threads over the last few months.

Yeah, really, I fail to understand why this feature hasn't been restored yet and what would be the reasons not to do so.

Restored? You're saying this was once a sorting option?
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: chil on January 17, 2013, 09:27 pm
Bump, lots of people suggesting this in multiple threads over the last few months.

Yeah, really, I fail to understand why this feature hasn't been restored yet and what would be the reasons not to do so.

Restored? You're saying this was once a sorting option?

I believe so, yes. If you can trust the memory of a drug user  :)
No seriously, i pretty much think they removed it for some reason. I remember using it.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: TK1991 on January 18, 2013, 07:21 pm
It would probably increase a the competition a bit too, specially in some categories *cough* cocaine *cough cough*
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: chil on January 20, 2013, 10:57 pm
Jesus, what does it take for admins to implement this feature ? Pretty much everybody would benefit from it.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: livestr0ng on January 22, 2013, 12:24 am
I would take this suggestion a step further, although it would require significant coding, it would greatly improve the overall SR experience:

Currently vendors list the quantity (weight) of their listing in the title.

Instead, the admins running SR could look at each drug and determine what are the most common/popular weights sold. For weed, for example, it would be something like:
Gram, Eighth, Quarter, Ounce, Quarter-Pound, Half-Pound, Pound, *Custom*

For Pills, there could be two factors, MG and Quantity
5mg, 10mg, 20mg, 30mg, *Other*
1 Pill, 5 Pills, 10 Pills, 20 Pills, 100 Pills, *Custom*

When vendors posted listings, they would choose these descriptors....couple with a "Price" filter, this would IMMENSELY improve the searching process on SR. Imagine, you log on, "Hmmm I want a quarter of weed"
First, click "filter by weight", select "quarter ounce"
Second, click "filter by price", select "lowest to highest"

Now, you have exactly what you are looking for, organized by price. That's my 2cents

yes! 6 cents altogether now.
and yes OP. It should totally have an "include shipping and handling charges in price" function. (but something not as long haha)
Lets get this basic idea the attention it needs for "THEM" to see it and make our SR fantasies realities.
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: opensky on January 23, 2013, 06:42 am
This is hands down the best suggestion in this sub-forum. Would really help the site out.. especially when there are 1600 cannabis listings..
Title: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Sort search results by price
Post by: chil on February 17, 2013, 05:52 pm
bump