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Originally Posted by layzee
According to the current stats, roughly about 6000 albums are being sold by 200 members. I wonder the former number would look like if we exclude a certain store, and what the latter number would look like if we exclude the "not logged into the site in x days" members (e.g. one year or more).
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Mildly interesting - it's been a year and a half since my previous post and the numbers are basically the same. It shouldn't be too surprising I guess, that's just reflecting the reality of today's physical and digital goods markets.
In regards to the green "not logged in for x days" message, for any particular album that is for sale, I see the green quite more often than not. The myriad folks who have gone MIA are somewhat amusing.
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Originally Posted by TerraEpon
Or just change the system to make it easier to add an album and its price at the same time...
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I didn't give this much thought in the past, but now that I have more than a handful of albums to sell, this couldn't be more true.
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Originally Posted by GoldfishX
The whole marketplace needs a complete purge. It's a wasteland right now.
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With my "mildly interesting" observation above, I suppose one could argue that the marketplace doesn't need anything, much less a purge. Sellers aren't really clamouring to offload their wares based on those numbers so there's not too much demand for a change. The current status quo is easier.
In addition, if I remember correctly (and I might remember wrong), someone said that the addition of the Marketplace vgmdb was more of an afterthought (no offence), it was just a bonus to the main attraction (i.e. the database). Still, I think the vgmdb marketplace forum looks and functions better than the other marketplace forums I've used, and it would be even better with some improvements (e.g. add album to sell in one click etc). It also has a few advantages over eBay:
- Far less likely to come across bootleg albums
- VGM enthusiasts who know what they're dealing with (e.g. more trustworthy than the average eBay)
- eBay has no separate category for VGM albums (more an eBay fault) which makes finding albums a hassle (doubly so with the existence of bootlegs)
Anyhoo, back to scavenging on the wastelands.