New Category For Charity Auctions

[burgyeb]

I would like to request a new category under "Auctions For Charity". Please add the category "Community Development"

Subcategories for "Community Development" could be
a) youth development/ b) leadership development/
c) enterprise development

Thank you for your consideration of this category request.

[raindropsies]

I agree with community development, but I don't think eBid should start sub cats for charity section, I think this would open the floodgates and be a bad thing. for example if you get the sub cats for community development, then admin should do sub cats for other main charity sections, so animals could have a big big list, cancer could have a big list too as there are a fair few cancer charities

[burgyeb]

You have a good point there. I set the request up that way after looking at the Gazza's example. Sub-cats may work best for non-charity categories. Definitely would like to see a Community Development Category.

[madelaine]

I think this raises, again, the whole question of how charity listings appear on ebid. I would like to see a charity marker and no special categories...

http://helpdesk.ebid.net/showthread....468#post976468

[JudesNiceThings]

I agree with Madelaine - a Marker on listings would probably get more views anyway!

[madelaine]

"I agree with Madelaine"

Now you are showing real good sense and high intelligence, Jude!

[burgyeb]

I prefer categories because it makes it clearer what the cause is; if markers are preferred I would think people could add them to their listing. Although I haven't quite been able to figure out what a marker is. There are already categories for charities, so I don't see any problem with adding another. Just my opinion.

[bykimbo]

I think charity sellers will be losing sales because browsers will never find their stuff. If somebody searches for a widget, they'll all come up fine. But anybody who looks for items by browsing will go straight to the appropriate category and never see the charity items. If I think I want to buy a book, I'll paddle in the book categories, but it would never occur to me to look in the charity section. I certainly wouldn't go shopping by charity type. However, if I looked at books and saw half-a-dozen, one of which had a small symbol to say it was a charity sale, I might well be prompted to buy that one ahead of the others, since it was for a good cause.

[burgyeb]

Depends on how it's listed Kimbo! Auctions can be listed by their main category and also be elected to show up in their store (charity). I really don't want to get lost in the frost. Does anyone know the best way to get a simple suggestion to Gazza for consideration. Would appreciate any pearls of wisdom in accomplishing this specific task. Thank you.

[madelaine]

Does anyone know the best way to get a simple suggestion to Gazza for consideration. Would appreciate any pearls of wisdom in accomplishing this specific task. Thank you.

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