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

[Trek]

Just another verification if anyone needs it, working fine on 3.8.

[TravelForum]

Hi
I did try emailing you but no joy; I think your mail box is full. I like the product concept very much because my criticism (one of them) of eBay is that items can not get discussed and therefore a lot of replicas / forgeries abound with impunity.

I would like to request the following mods either as a bespoke service (which I would pay for) or as a general release. My idea is to offer auctions with subsequent billing of commissions to sellers for their successful sales.

So I am looking for some form of automated billing by email system which would;
a) Look at the auctions for the previous specified period - I thought make the billing date the 10th and cover the previous month's auction ends so as to allow a 10 day time frame for sellers to declare a failed auction / non-payment by buyer.
b) With that the ability for sellers to mark any unpaid sales prior to the billing date so as to remove those items from the invoice list.
c) To get a list of unpaid items.
d) To offer a PayPal link for the invoice to be paid which then confirms / marks it as such on the system. Although I would like to allow payment by bank wire as well.
e) I would like to set up the billing to have an auction listing fee plus commission on the sale, so I would like to express the fee (and be able to change it) in Euros / Dollars and the commission as a %

Regards
Mark

[zombietom]

Glad to hear it Blaine ! can't wait --make sure it after the update it still works on 3.7 as i do not want to upgrade to 3.8 for a while.

[Blaine0002]

just so you guys know, the update might require you to uninstall your previous version of vbay, which means you will lose all of your current auctions.

[towermatt]

Nice to see you back Blain, can't wait for the update.

I don't mind uninstalling, I can just make a record of the previous auctions. We have raised thousands of dollars for charity using this thing, it's great.

[Blaine0002]

WOW! im glad to hear its being used for such a good cause!

[Phobos49]

can't wait for the new version. Thanks Blaine!!! :up:

[TheInsaneManiac]

Looking forward to paypal API!

[Napster6]

i like it, is there anyway to work it so that there is an option in the admin CP for anyone wishing to use this, must pay a small fee, such as ebay. a Listing fee? I am really enticed by this.

[427mouse]

It seems to be truncating the auction description if a quote mark (") is use in the description. The description ends right where the quote mark was. Any ideas for a fix?