New Upgrade Idea - PObay, a Schiller's dream

This one is pretty simple in concept and would really clean up the marketplace big time, plus allow the Cookies/Dalsue's of the world to still operate fairly.

Lets say I have 10 lock I wanna sell. I set a baseline price, length of time for auction and bid increment (50 pts, 100 pts, etc.).

Bidder escrows the points as they go along (make it clear that once they escrow they can't withdraw IF they are the top bidder - if you're out bid your points should be refunded back to the account).

Here's the catch - too many times in the marketplace does the advertiser of the item either not trade it (thereby creating these dumb issues) or lost it at the tables. For this to work, somehow there has to be an account to trade it too (this isnt mandatory but would make it run smoother).

Benefits:
- The marketplace gets cleaned of most of the shit clogging it up
- Free market still reigns supreme (these guys can run concurrent auctions every hour if they want)
- Channel 1 is for actual poker and Patriots talk.

Your thoughts?

full?

Can someone who actually has an opinion respond?

welllllll...good idea...actually, great idea!!!

but..FUCK THE PATRIOTS!!! 85' superbowl guy....!!!! DA BEEEAAARRRSSS!!!!!

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Originally Posted by JBD

welllllll...good idea...actually, great idea!!!

but..FUCK THE PATRIOTS!!! 85' superbowl guy....!!!! DA BEEEAAARRRSSS!!!!!

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I only put that in there so Prawney would support it.

Lol Patriots talk... and the Lions bro. :)

Nahhhhhh.....bears....bears....bearssss.....ditka. ....bearsss

yes and i think this would work very well great idea.... plus when ur in market and u click to trade sometimes the person isnt on and u have to wait for them and u do a deal thats not as good as u want so therefore the person that has it for sell at auction must be present when the selling is going on so it could be a instant trade...and in order to put stuff in auction maybe u must submit photo id to zab to verify it and in order to bid u have to do the same thing...help get rid of scammers...just throwing ideas back at u man..or maybe u would have to be verified and escrow some points to buy into the auction that would also help get rid of broke ass ppl trying to scam the honest poker players here...i am sick of reading about my fellow members getting scammed. i no zab has been trying to help but there is only so much he can do before we have to start taking our own stand against this and i think rivdee has a good start with this idea so please make some more posts and get this idea to life...

It's a good idea I think. It sounds reasonable, and would really clear up the marketplace a lot.

Good idea rivdee!! The plus factor is maybe I will get my quiet space back

you could have many options with the auction thing maybe zab could charge 1 or 2 points per bid u make to help pay for it ,,, so it would pay for itself and that way it could be profitable for the site as well as safer for the members a win win for everyone

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Originally Posted by 123loweman

you could have many options with the auction thing maybe zab could charge 1 or 2 points per bid u make to help pay for it ,,, so it would pay for itself and that why it could be profitable for the site as well as safer for the members a win win for everyone

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No, I should get a cut per transaction. He's already gotten some free upgrades from me, I need to get paid for ONE of them. At the very least, I need a shirt that says "I created POBay and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt"

well put hope they take it into consideration and good luck to your plan