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Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance
Date: 
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:16:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Suzanne D. Rich writes:

I had hoped to build a "LUGNET Marketplace"  at market.lugnet.com. It was to
be a village square of vendor carts, built on a special webpage. It would
have been a place to watch the flow of shops' announcements (new products,
price slashing, limited time offers, etc.) without being able to reply;
literally, in the center of a square of blocky ads (each containing links to
their own shops off LUGNET). Shopkeepers would probably be charged for their
ad spaces and posting privelages. Ads would conform to templates, and
quantity of posts per shopkeeper would be limited. I can imagine many
enhancement possibilities.

I'm not sure if you can imagine what I'm talking about...

In theory, it'd be kinda like a cross between: what they have in backs of
some magazines (the 'Marketplace' section), which is a step up from the
classified ads; and the true-life shopping experience you'd get at a real
outdoor market.

The idea never got much farther than me talking about it, and making a nifty
icon. But being as how we're brainstorming over in the lugnet.admin.finance
area, maybe this is worth re-visiting.

Okay, I made a quick mock-up. This isn't a fully developed concept... I just
want to give you some idea of what I meant in previous post.

  http://www.baseplate.com/temp/lugnet/market-brickshops.gif

So, some number of shops would have ads surrounding their own posting area.

How visitors found a particular vendor (an index?), who it appeared near
(catagories?), and 'fairness' of top of page placement (random?), etc. isn't
clear. But I like the idea of, say, browsing the minifig 'clothing
district,' for example.

-Suz



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  Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
 
LUGNET Admin wrote in message ... (...) nifty (...) lugnet.admin.finance (...) just (...) I like this idea, it looks interesting! How would you decide what "a shop" is? Individual Bricklink stores vs Bricklink itself, for instance... or like I have (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)

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  Re: Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade and market.brickshops
 
(...) Okay, I'm reading up on this now. I still have to discuss it with Todd, who'll make any changes to charters, so give me a couple days. Meanwhile, I'll also mention (just in case this makes anyone reconsider their stance) that, waaaay long (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)

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