Idea for Bargain Feedback & Ranking - "I Purchased' Button

Ldwain on 14/07/2016 - 14:54

I was thinking to myself, as yet another GTX1080 deal topped Today's list, how many OzBargainers are actually buying these ~ $1k graphics cards?

These repeated deals get a lot of votes, presumably because there's a lot of buzz on the item and because it's the new cheapest price. BUT if no one is actually purchasing, surely the value to the community is diminished.

What if there was another button (along side the vote), to indicate that you've purchased the deal? Then the algorithm could rank deals not solely on their votes, but also on how popular the item is.

I realise there is a count of the clicks, but a click is far from a sale.

Thoughts?

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  • Moderatorneil on 14/07/2016 - 14:58

    You can click want, have, or had on the product pages. E.G. Chromecast 2.

    Feature: Want/Have/Had

    • boomramada on 14/07/2016 - 15:00

      That is on product display page, should be in bargain page, I purchased it, that is why I only up vote the item, if I proceed with the bargain :)

      • Moderatorneil on 14/07/2016 - 15:01

        It is, on the right —->

        See here for example.

        • boomramada on 14/07/2016 - 15:03

          where? or Am I blind? :)

        • Moderatorneil on 14/07/2016 - 15:08

          @boomramada:

          Screenshot

        • boomramada on 14/07/2016 - 15:11

          @neil:
          Ah, those images doesn't comes up on my browser (something to do with proxy in my end) anyway, just like OP suggested, should have a counter of how many people proceed with the deal. ie purchased it or used the deal, since some deals are services not products :)

  • Axelstrife on 14/07/2016 - 15:13
    +4

    nice idea would be cool to have a "Bought" Button and counter on each individual deal.

  • dwain on 14/07/2016 - 15:35

    Thanks for posting Neil. It is good to have those statuses on the product pages (I didn't know about them). But I'd still like to see the purchases on the bargain page. maybe if someone votes, they then must choose between 'already own / purchasing / want it'?

    Then weight could be given to those who are purchasing or something. just thinking out loud…

  • Moderatorscotty on 14/07/2016 - 15:44

    It has been asked a few times before but we have no plan implementing those.

    • If you want to keep track the deals you have actioned, use "Bookmark" to put them into a folder of your choice.
    • If you want to keep track the products you have purchased, hover over on the product image to change to "I Have" as neil has suggested.
    • If you want to have more statistics, I'll just say it's not that useful. Many good deals are not actionable (wrong location for example, or currently not needed, or has already purchased previously), but they are still good deals. People also post deals that they may not buy themselves but share to benefit the others.
  • [Deactivated] on 14/07/2016 - 15:56

    If you click Want, do you get notified every time a deal for that product is posted?

    • Moderatorhamza23 on 15/07/2016 - 15:46

      You won't be notified. That feature wouldn't really be possible as users would need to tag the products when submitting the deals in order for the subscription emails to issue (this is mostly done by moderators or power users after deals are submitted).

      • [Deactivated] on 16/07/2016 - 01:03

        Cheers.

  • dwain on 14/07/2016 - 15:57

    Hi scotty,

    I understand. I was more thinking that that extra data might be useful in putting the best/most valuable deals on the homepage. I love OzB, I just don't think the homepage being dominated by the same products over and over is particularly valuable, and this seemed a good way around it.

    • Moderatorhamza23 on 15/07/2016 - 15:56

      Also keep in mind that your front page is quite customisable if you are seeing too many deals there that you don't want to see

      In settings > edit > deals you can exclude certain categories from showing on the front page (for example if you didn't have a pet, you could tick all categories apart from 'pets'). You can also hide deals that haven't started, expired deals or highlighted deals.

      Furthermore if there are certain stores that you aren't interested in, you can block deals from those stores, under every deal there is a 'hide' button which allows you to block deals from that store or that poster in the future (in both the new deals and front page). For example if I don't eat McDonald's, on any McDonald's deal I can click hide > 'Hide from store McDonald's' so I won't see those deals in the future and the front page will be less likely to show deals I'm uninterested in.

      Probably not that applicable to your video card example, unless you were completely uninterested in all computing deals all together then you could exclude that category from showing on the front page.

      • dwain on 15/07/2016 - 22:12

        certainly a good feature, though I've not personally wanted to exclude any categories. cheer hamza

  • spychiatrist on 15/07/2016 - 11:28

    trolls would love this

    • dwain on 15/07/2016 - 12:57

      love what?

      • [Deactivated] on 15/07/2016 - 13:20
        +1

        this

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