Jul 22, 2013
Better Search for Commercial Box Buyers and Sellers
Today’s release improves the Require search feature in two ways designed to help our larger, commercial customers: Commercial/Bulk Multi-Type Option Expanded Maximum Search Radius Commercial/Bulk Option This new Restrict option shows listings likely to be of interest to commercial customers. This currently includes listings that have: Any items with Quantity of 400 or more (100 for Wanted Listings)... read more
Jul 12, 2012
Distance Ranges for Wanted Listings
Wanted Listings serve a dual function of making public the interest in specific boxes and of alerting potential buyers of new matching seller listings within their area. Potential buyers can now choose from several options between 5 miles and 2000 miles for how far they are willing to travel to get their wanted boxes. Until now, we simply used 25 miles. While this is a reasonable default for most... read more
Mar 21, 2012
Cash on Pickup Payment Option Enters Beta Testing
Background We frequently get requests to settle transactions in cash at meeting. Some buyers don’t have credit cards, some feel uncomfortable submitting payment details when they haven’t seen the goods, some are just used to paying at physical meeting. Collecting payment at order time is a crucial component to one of they key problems we are trying to solve: getting people to show up and... read more
Feb 1, 2012
Show Only Box Sellers With Specific Boxes
We’ve added a new Require feature to Buy Boxes and Wanted sections search that allows users to show only listings that include boxes of a specific type. For example, if you are looking for moving boxes, but are only interested in buying if you can get Wardrobes at the same time you can now select a Wardrobe box type from the Require drop-down and search. Only sellers who have Wardrobes as one of the... read more
Jan 14, 2012
Box Strength and Weight Capacity Attributes
We’ve added support for two new box attributes: Test/Strength and Maximum Weight Capacity. Seller listings can now include these details and Wanted Listings can now request that boxes match these attributes. Test is a standard measure of box strength. It also hints at how heavy the box is. It is measured using either Bursting Test (# Test) or Edge Crush Test (ECT). Maximum Weight Capacity indicates... read more
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