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Suggestion: Follow Seller Feature! Yes or No?

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Should namePros add "Follow Seller" feature?

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J9

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Hi everyone,

I do a lot of no reserve $1 auctions and there are many others too who do the same. Some people come up with awesome Buy Now offer sometimes. But the problem is there is no way to get notified via alert/email if someone is interested in getting notified when a specific member posts a new sales thread.

So basically I want a "Follow Seller" feature which enables other users to follow a specific member so that they get notified whenever that member come up with new sales thread.

Somewhat similar to Flippa Watch Seller feature.

Some people will say that there is already a feature to follow other members but the truth is very rarely anyone checks his/her news feed. Plus News feed is filled with lots of stuff like who replied to what, who liked what etc. Also Following a member to check his replies is very different from following a member for sales thread.

Let me know your thoughts via Poll and Replies.
 
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Till now 3 "Yes" votes.

I was thinking how much advantageous the feature will be. I came up with below list.

  1. Buyers get updates from their favourite seller/seller who provides awesome deals.
  2. Sellers who who come up with awesome $1 auctions or buy nows get more followers hence more exposure.
  3. More and more sellers will start doing $1 auctions and to get more followers making marketplace more active.
  4. When sellers have good amount of followers, they might start auctioning higher value names they generally only auction in marketplaces like Flippa, Godaddy, Namejet etc.

In short this feature will make namePros marketplace more active and exciting and will help namePros compete with bigger marketplaces.

@Paul Buonopane Is it possible to implement this kind of feature in namePros?

@Eric Lyon What's your thoughts on this?

Everyone is invited to answer in poll and post their thoughts in the thread.
 
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Great suggestion -

We're busy with a new project at the moment, but we'll work on adding this feature in the next few months.

Thanks,
 
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It's possible, but we already send out an extraordinary number of emails, so it'll need to be implemented with care. I've been passively looking at various ways we can improve alerts, including sending mobile push notifications and SMS messages. As Eric said, we're looking to get something going in this area in the next few months.

We were integrating with a service that enabled push notifications at one point, but we had to disable it due to poor design. They claim to have fixed the more serious issues since then, but I highly doubt it. It was a ticking security time bomb that we didn't want any part of.
 
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