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Hello members of the AstroBin Beta Testers group! Today I'm introducing the CLOSED BETA of the upcoming AstroBin Marketplace! Please read this page to learn about the AstroBin Marketplace: https://welcome.astrobin.com/features/marketplace Familiarize yourself with the features and the reason why I created this section on AstroBin. You can see a tutorial and some FAQ on that page. IMPORTANT!!!
I would like to invite you to:
As a member of the Beta Testers group, you can access the Marketplace in the Explore menu. When I stop receiving bug reports I'll know that it's ready to go live :-) Thank you all in advance! Salvatore |
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No bugs yet, but AstroBin misspelled in first paragraph: "A cutting-edge platform built specifically for the astrophotography community. Designed to seamlessly integrate with your existing AstroBin experience, the AstorBin Marketplace provides a modern, fast, and scalable solution for buying and selling used telescopes, cameras, mounts, filters, and accessories." |
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Gosh, 😅 if I had a dollar for every time I misspelled astrobin as astorbin, I could retire. |
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On my "french" screen, at the beggining of the page, juste under the "Astorbin marketplace" the two buttons "Caractèristiques" (??) and "Tutorial" overlap. Harold |
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In the menu "Make an offer": if you choose to increase/decrease manually the price, at the first action a 0.01 is added to the original price. |
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Great addition to the platform. I actually made use of AstroBin 3 years ago when making decisions on buying a new OTA by reaching out to members with telescopes I was interested in and one of them was ready to sell his CT8. Everything went well and I got a great second hand scope I love. With this integration it will be even easier and hopefully safe to buy/sell our products. Looking forward to final release. Cheers. I created a post and I am wondering if in the final release version, it will be possible to pull the gear images from your own AstroBin account directly or if only external images can be uploaded? |
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Georg G Albrecht: If you create a marketplace listing by selecting from the AstroBin Equipment Database (instead of inputting as simple text), AstroBin automatically shows your images (and all community images) acquired with that specific telescope: However, images "of" the thing you're selling are not automated. You probably want to take custom pictures for the sale, such as different angles, pictures that show cosmetic defects, etc. |
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Of course I would. However I clicked on the AstroBin equipment option and got only images off of my cellphone to select from... Will try once more to see what happens. |
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The first added to an image date is not correct |
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I accepted the buyer's offer on the small bezel and I noticed that on my page it is indicated as reserved although on marketplace the ad has completely disappeared. Definitely a bug? |
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I accepted the buyer's offer on the small bezel and I noticed that on my page it is indicated as reserved although on marketplace the ad has completely disappeared. Yes, it seems that when I edited it for you, it changed the location to my geolocation, so you can't see if if your marketplace is filtered by your region (France?). You probably can see it if you set the region to WORLDWIDE (top right button). I'll fix this bug. |
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@Salvatore Iovene THANKS, The interface is great in any case. This is going to be great once the testing is finished. |
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Harold Freckhaus: Found the issue, fix in progress! |
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Hi Salvatore, I accepted an offer for a Takahashi telescope and it seemed to work very well. This is a great idea. I am looking forward to it going live. Clear skies, Kevin |
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Thanks Salvatore! Do I see it right that there’s currently no possibility to post a “want to buy” entry? |
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Great new feature and interface is easy to use! I added a Takahashi and have 2 offers! Will test accept on one and reject on another and messaging too! Gowri |
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Francesco Meschia: Not yet, I'll add it later (soon). The beauty of AstroBin is that when you post a "wanted" item, AstroBin can notify the people in your country who have that thing |
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I tried to message 2 offers for my scope I advertised to sell and the Message sent successfully, but I got another window to send a private message, which I was confused by, since the first message I think is private too. |
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gmadkat: Can you please send me a screenshot with the confusing part? |
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It was the first time you send a message to a prospective buyer who made an offer, I unfortunately responded to both my offers and the UI is ok now, it shows the history, if someone else makes me an offer I can screenshot it, or I can add a new equipment and try again. |
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And then I think the below confused me first time since I thought it was prompting me to send the private message after I sent it, but on second look, it looks ok to me! |
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Yeah you can have multiple conversations with the same person, and they are all grouped there. I think most people will be familiar with it because it's the same UI component that's used for image comments. |
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Hi Salvatore, looking good so far and a great new feature for AstroBin . One thing I spotted, could we have an "Edit" button on the messages and questions windows to amend typo's? Thanks Tony. |