Public buy/sell/trade

[Electronics Plus]

For months I have been trying to implement a "multi-vendor marketplace". Without a budget, it is almost impossible. There is a free software, Sellacious, which runs off Joomla. Out of the box, it does not work. It has MAJOR security holes. However, it was the ONLY one I could find where more than one seller could sell the same product. Suppose 5 people have 1391401 keyboards. In almost every other system, you would have 5 separate listings. I wanted something more like Amazon, where the item is listed ONCE, and then each seller can set his price and a description of the condition, etc.

I am most familiar with Magento, which is what I use. There is a multi-vendor add-on available, but the base package is $399, and then you go up from there with features, like each seller being able to input his own shipping methods/rates and payment methods.

Deskthority donated the space for such a market, and offered to host it, but no one has the time to update/maintain it. If it were Magento, I would do it, but I don't have $400+ to invest in the extra software (basic Magento CE is free).

If someone wants to donate the funds, or write a good working module for Magento multi-vendor, I will be happy to set it up an maintain it.

The advantages to Magento are many, but it has a few drawbacks too. You can do almost anything with it, but it can be a little slow. The community is very active.

There are numerous tiny sites for buying and selling that are not very active anymore, and most use a PHP BB type system, which will not let you list and buy like a true ecommerce does. It also does not tell you when something is out of stock, or allow you to add it to a wishlist.

Cindy

-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via cctalk
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 5:07 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Want/Available list

On 12/20/2018 03:46 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
> I too want a web forum venue for hunting, acquiring and dispersing 
> vintage computing gear, with a restoration/collector slant, ie not about 
> the money, ie I'm poor, ha ha.  A mailing list is NOT an appropriate 
> context. It has no categories, is ephemeral, chews local storage, has 
> no hot-linking, and demands more real-time attention than I can spare.

Is there really a dearth of satisfactory locations for people to swap / 
trade / buy / sell computer equipment?

I've not seriously looked.  But I feel like this should have been solved 
already.  Maybe it has an the typical places are running people off or 
otherwise unappealing.

What would people want in such a swap-n-shop?

In some ways it's a basic inventory management system, with the ability 
for people to add their own listings.

I feel like the community could likely benefit from an associated forum 
to discuss things without bogging down the business transactions.

I would want it easy to search and find things, or possibly even 
register as being interested in being notified when someone lists 
something for sale in the future.



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Grant. . . .
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