Major Additions - VBay! Transform your vbulletin into an auctionhouse!

VBay.

This will add an auction section to your bulletin!

If you want to donate to me click the link over there ---------------------->

I am open to suggestions, bugs, comments, insults, and anything else you might say to me at the time :P

To do list:
*use forums/categories/subforums for your auctionhouse.
high bidder userid -> username
*" in description cuts the description at that point
add buyer name
fix pm formatting
add more currencies
intergrate with trader ratings
add paypal api
bidder usergroups
*hot auctions on main < - Available with addon (wont be packaged in vbay)
admin editing auctions
*set up for use with forum commenting.
*fix amount of days an auction can be posted (more than 2 char)
ability to prune old auctions
make sure buy it now is using buy it now price, not bid.
allow admin ability to specify bid/buyitnow/both overrides.

* = Completed.

Features:
Full BBCode support.
Specification of everything, Money Auction length ECT.
Image uploader for auctions.
Closed auction section.
3 auction types, bid, buy it now, or both.


To install
Upload files, and import product as usual
Make a new usergroup and call it the sellers usergroup, do what you want with this group (allow people to request addition maybe?)
Go to vbulletin options and into vbay, set the usergroup id of the sellers group you just made.


To upgrade
re upload all files
import new product
REVERT YOUR TEMPLATES

[buurman]

Still like the product m8!
Started @ 1.1.4, and much is improved, compliments!

Hope future version will include:

A vbulletin like posting, and picture uploading, not the 3 steps thats uses right now, it confuses users and making it just that bridge they dont cross.

All the rest.. like it!!

[iBaker]

Blaine - you have done a fantastic job with this product and should be commended.

Unfortunately though I can't really install this mod on my live forum for some very simple reasons - please don't consider my comments as negative. Forum members would use the mod so much more if they got exposure to what they are selling/auctioning and when you mix this with the fact that people come to a forum to read the posts then the answer is that the two need to be combined.

Many mods are add-on pages and I personally have found that they don't get used much for the reason I said above - people come to the forums to read posts. So, for this reason many forum owners usually have one of their forums being "anything for sale" which contains separate threads that users have created to sell an item - a separate page is out of sight out of mind whereas a for sale forum in all the other forums gets noticed by the forum users resulting in things being sold - better success then a separate page.

I would so much like to have your auction system where the items are listed as threads within the forum structure. The only other thing that I would very much want is to be able to define a standard format display such as:
Item: The Big Item
Price: $100
Description: yada yada yada
Location: My Place
Colour: Green
etc

- if vBay was integrated with the forums more as in the above then I truly believe that vBay is a real winner. When a person clicks on the thread your page opens up instead of the normal posts. Perhaps the threads could even be sorted with Auctions first then standard "For Sale" items and then all the closed auctions/sold items.

In any case - well done Blaine!

[DieselMinded]

Mine worked fine then i updated now i get

Make sure you have filled in all fields!

when creating a new Auction

vbay_new_auction:

This template has not been customized in this style or any of its parent styles.

Double-click the template name or click the 'Customize' button to add a customized version of this template to the current style and its child sets.

Last edited January 12 2008 at 00:27 by Blaine0002

[DieselMinded]

Any ideas Blaine ?

[vdarwin]

Hi there,

I have installed vBay in VBulletin 3.6.8 and when i post a new auction always i get this new auctions closed. Always. Anybody can help me?

thanks.

[Blaine0002]

Download 1.1.9

[DieselMinded]

It works blaine i messed up on my uploaded files .. :duh:

Thanks for all your work on this

DM

[Blaine0002]

glad its working out for you

[roflwaffle]

When do you think you might have this integrated with icash so people will have to pay to have there auctions posted?

Thanks.
Tom Swanson

[DrKNickel]

Is this mod secure? I have read in another forum that it had/has issues. Any info on this?

Does it work with 3.7 ?

Greets