Oct 21, 2011
Custom Buyback Prices and Retail Notifications for Seller Wanted Listings
Last week we released a feature we’ve been working on for a long time: Seller Wanted Listings. Custom Prices We’ve now removed one of the limitations of the first release – lack of ability to set custom buy prices. With today’s update, buyers can specify prices they are willing to pay for boxes they are requesting. Automatic pricing is still available; simply leave the price blank... read more
Oct 13, 2011
Wholesale Buying and Easy Selling of Used Boxes with Seller Wanted Listings
BoxCycle got a significant new piece of functionality today: Seller Wanted Listings. Existing sellers can now request specific boxes they want to buy and anyone can sell matching boxes to them. Seller Wanted Listing Transactions use essentially the same checkout system, order management system, and processing rules as normal Retail Orders with buyer and seller roles reversed. You can find details on the... read more
Aug 10, 2011
Sell Your Used Packing Supplies
BoxCycle sellers can now list their used (or new) packing supplies as well as their boxes. Buyers frequently want to pickup packing supplies with their purchase and many sellers are happy to get rid of their packing material from moving or shipping. You can find a new category called Packing Supplies in the list of box types. At this time we support the following types of supplies: Packing Paper... read more
Jun 10, 2011
Months of Frustration or How BoxCycle Got a Speed Boost
The last few months have been pretty exciting for BoxCycle. We are seeing more visits, more listings, and more orders and we are refining the process to help us keep up and provide the best possible experience for buyers and sellers. Unfortunately, the last few months have also been maddening. Just as traffic improved, website performance became slow and unreliable. We tried a number of things to... read more
May 23, 2011
Keep Last Modified Dates with Capistrano Deploy and SVN/Git
BoxCycle is a Rails application that just switched to Git from SVN for version control and uses Capistrano to help automate deployment. Problem: Deploy Updates Last Modified Dates on All Files As shocking as it may seem, when you deploy a new version of your app, there is a good chance that Last Modified dates of all files will be updated to the date of deployment even though most of those files did not... read more
