Somehow I clearly see that all adds have to have features to close the transaction on-line and only after transaction is closed on-line there can be feedback left for audiogon menber.
If it's non-auction add and the buyer agrees onto the price he/she must imediately choose "BUY AT OFFERED PRICE" and the ad becomes automatically closed. This action will mean a commitment to complete purchase/sale from... to... participating members. Buyer has to have also a possibility to offer a different price wich later-on can be reviewed by seller and if seller accepts offered price he can choose "ACCEPT OFFERED PRICE" and the ad becomes automatically closed for completing a transaction between members. Certainly in any case after the ad had be closed it can only be displayed for a couple of days and than go to the completed ad section that is separated from the active ads.
There should be some re-listing guidelines specified(for no extra-charge) especially if something went wong: i.e. seller specified that he/she will not ship outside US and had an overseas customer that accepted offered price and certainly made the classified(or dealer-demo)ad non-active; or simply if buyer refused to complete a transaction.
If the seller refuses to complete a transaction for no reson the price for a new listing must be charged even if the same item is being re-listed.
This way the classified ads will be more as a contract and someway first-come-first-serve bases giving less possibility to refuse to complete the transaction and also bind feedbacks to ads as it's been done on ebay.
The auction ad can be simply identical to ebay in terms of leaving a feedback.
The above propositions can realy be done within short period of time and will be convenient for all of us.
If it's non-auction add and the buyer agrees onto the price he/she must imediately choose "BUY AT OFFERED PRICE" and the ad becomes automatically closed. This action will mean a commitment to complete purchase/sale from... to... participating members. Buyer has to have also a possibility to offer a different price wich later-on can be reviewed by seller and if seller accepts offered price he can choose "ACCEPT OFFERED PRICE" and the ad becomes automatically closed for completing a transaction between members. Certainly in any case after the ad had be closed it can only be displayed for a couple of days and than go to the completed ad section that is separated from the active ads.
There should be some re-listing guidelines specified(for no extra-charge) especially if something went wong: i.e. seller specified that he/she will not ship outside US and had an overseas customer that accepted offered price and certainly made the classified(or dealer-demo)ad non-active; or simply if buyer refused to complete a transaction.
If the seller refuses to complete a transaction for no reson the price for a new listing must be charged even if the same item is being re-listed.
This way the classified ads will be more as a contract and someway first-come-first-serve bases giving less possibility to refuse to complete the transaction and also bind feedbacks to ads as it's been done on ebay.
The auction ad can be simply identical to ebay in terms of leaving a feedback.
The above propositions can realy be done within short period of time and will be convenient for all of us.