thunderclap
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Selling has never been easier, but it's still a fairly laborious process. With the current economy on PWO, even well-priced things often fail to sell.
Currently when things fail to sell, you have to find your pokemon in Global Link, collect it, find it in your boxes, and then re-list it manually on the Mart. That includes trying to remember your asking prices all over again, unless you kept a record of those.
Just finding your pokemon after collecting can be hard. Collected pokemons from Global Link currently go to your first available box, rather than your active box. The easiest way is by logging into the game and going to a PC, because the playerdex pages are slow, and because depending on your sorting options, newest stuff won't necessarily be sorted to the end of the box on the website.
But you have to log out again to actually sell the pokemon. If you don't decide to re-sell the pokemon, you now have to re-organize your boxes. Box management is already an issue since we can't release pokemon outside the PC, but that's another topic..
Lastly, Shodan21 correctly pointed out the further problem that you can't distinguish between pokemon of the same level on the sell page. Adding the Poke ID# would help (see mockup).
That was a bit more complaining-sounding than I wanted, but hopefully you can understand the many small issues that result in a tedious selling experience, especially when dealing with high volumes of stuff.
This feature would enable more variety: people could make a 1 day sale, which relists at a discount every day. Or a negative number could be input, to raise the price, if it's a highly sought after pokemon/item. It would also make it easier for new players to figure out what their stuff is worth. This feature would avoid ever having to collect/find/relist your pokemons again.
The end result would be many more people using the Mart, and hopefully an upturn in the economy. I think half the reason pokemon prices have crashed so dramatically is because people want to ensure things sell the first time, so they don't have to bother re-listing them. I've got 13 pages of stuff in my Global Link box that I want to sell, plus tons in-game, but it's a lot of work to re-list when only about 10% usually sells.
Quick mock-up:
To summarize, this is actually 4 suggestions:
1. Add an option to automatically re-post items for sale on Mart.
2. Make Global Link's collect feature send pokemon to your active box, not the first available box.
3. Add the Pokemon ID number to the sell page.
4. Individual quick sorting options for Release Box, Global Link, and your actual boxes (it's most useful to sort Released by National Dex ID, but boxes by Position).
5. (Bonus suggestion) Allow releasing pokemon outside of the PC!
Note: I personally think the Playerdex is amazing, and is by far the best thing about PWO. This would just bring it another step closer to perfection.
Thoughts?
Currently when things fail to sell, you have to find your pokemon in Global Link, collect it, find it in your boxes, and then re-list it manually on the Mart. That includes trying to remember your asking prices all over again, unless you kept a record of those.
Just finding your pokemon after collecting can be hard. Collected pokemons from Global Link currently go to your first available box, rather than your active box. The easiest way is by logging into the game and going to a PC, because the playerdex pages are slow, and because depending on your sorting options, newest stuff won't necessarily be sorted to the end of the box on the website.
But you have to log out again to actually sell the pokemon. If you don't decide to re-sell the pokemon, you now have to re-organize your boxes. Box management is already an issue since we can't release pokemon outside the PC, but that's another topic..
Lastly, Shodan21 correctly pointed out the further problem that you can't distinguish between pokemon of the same level on the sell page. Adding the Poke ID# would help (see mockup).
That was a bit more complaining-sounding than I wanted, but hopefully you can understand the many small issues that result in a tedious selling experience, especially when dealing with high volumes of stuff.
This feature would enable more variety: people could make a 1 day sale, which relists at a discount every day. Or a negative number could be input, to raise the price, if it's a highly sought after pokemon/item. It would also make it easier for new players to figure out what their stuff is worth. This feature would avoid ever having to collect/find/relist your pokemons again.
The end result would be many more people using the Mart, and hopefully an upturn in the economy. I think half the reason pokemon prices have crashed so dramatically is because people want to ensure things sell the first time, so they don't have to bother re-listing them. I've got 13 pages of stuff in my Global Link box that I want to sell, plus tons in-game, but it's a lot of work to re-list when only about 10% usually sells.
Quick mock-up:
To summarize, this is actually 4 suggestions:
1. Add an option to automatically re-post items for sale on Mart.
2. Make Global Link's collect feature send pokemon to your active box, not the first available box.
3. Add the Pokemon ID number to the sell page.
4. Individual quick sorting options for Release Box, Global Link, and your actual boxes (it's most useful to sort Released by National Dex ID, but boxes by Position).
5. (Bonus suggestion) Allow releasing pokemon outside of the PC!
Note: I personally think the Playerdex is amazing, and is by far the best thing about PWO. This would just bring it another step closer to perfection.
Thoughts?
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