Silk Road forums
Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: posterboy on October 04, 2012, 11:48 pm
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Buyers:
-Sort by Price option/parameter - including the shipping price
-Prices in multiple currencies - at least the major ones GBP/EUR/JPY
-FE is a major issues for buyers since FE has been abused by several vendors. A compromise needs to be made where buyers would pay a small fee to join SR in order to avoid ripper making multiple accounts and scamming vendors who are anti or do not FE.
-Front Page Listings to display top half of products bestselling and bottom half showing recently added products.
-Bestselling products option shows some products which have never been purchased. Remove these from the top.
-Leaving feedback is a integral part of the site. Buyers want to leave a genuine feedback and do not want to be forced to leave 5/5 but have to as anything under 5 is regarding as negative. Migrate to a +1, 0 and -1 system if this is a case or to an ebay style feedback system to accurately reflect feedback.
Others have suggested:
-delete unnecessary subcategories and add important new ones such as Tar/powder under Heroin.
Vendors:
-FE should be available on Order page - no need to wait for order to be 'marked in transit' (this allows me to login, order and wait for package IRL, rather than having to log on again to wait for vendor to mark in transit then buyer has to FE then it gets shipped)
-No need for multiple pictures if the vendors takes the picture properly - what is more important is for the image to be uploaded from and image hosting site rather than a user's machine/PC
-Fee's need to made much more simpler. Structure should be one flat fee rather than fee/tax bands. Also since the revenues have increased the fees/taxes should be cheaper in order to filter to the end buyer price. 7-10% is too expensive. The road's revenue is large enough to implement a flat 3-5% tax/fee rate.
-send message to all fans is an interesting suggestion and there should be a limit of one per week to avoid spam.
Account:
-An update of when depositing and withdrawing money from the account is not instant or normal deposit/withdrawal timings are not possible.
-An updated Country list where there is a high risk of seizure custom or corruption should be mentioned. Thereafter buyer or seller should take responsibility for shipping or buying from these countries. For example if Russia has successful shipping rate of below 50% then either buyer or seller should take responsibility if item if sold or purchase to or from this country.
Forums:
-Tutorial/Guide section in forums or sticky tutorials and guides. To avoid repetitive threads reoccurring daily. Also there needs to be one important guide that everyone new must read - such as step by step of how to buy bitcoins in US/EU, on PGP, on how to use TOR/VPN/PROXY/RDP etc in one thread and not in many different threads. Possibly in the guide or an FAQ section.
-Black List/Ripper/Scammer section in forums however needs to be moderated properly since vendors could jeopardize each other's reputation. So posts would have to be moderated before post is published.
-Pay small amount to remove spam which is causing confusion on forums. There must be one or two users who live on the forums and could clean up the spam which the current mods are too busy to do. pay them 0.05-0.1btc a day to clear spam. Spam clearance could be moderated to make sure important threads/posts do not get deleted.
-Search on forums is not working properly as half of all searches do not go complete and has wait 5 seconds, when a search was not made previously.
-purchase servers or machines used exclusively for TOR traffic preferably in non western countries.
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Thanks for bringing all those together!