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

[brandonroy]

I went ahead and nofollowed all vbay internal links (auctions, categories, etc) and disallowed all of the /vbay.php?do= pages in robots.txt. So my vbay homepage is the only page that should get crawled and indexed by google. I find this better than having a bunch of duplicate titles and meta's. Also saves on bandwidth So I'll leave it liek this until(if) someone can help out with the seo of vbay.

I have another question:

We all know that new auction users have to enter their address info one time when they click "sell", "buy it now", etc. It would be really nice if they would be redirected back to the page they clicked on before they had to enter their shipping info. Anyone know how to do this?

Example:
1. A forum member visits our forums vbay page for the first time.
2. He wants to post an auction right away, so he clicks on "sell".
3. The address page comes up where he has to enter his address.
4. After he submits his address info, he is redirected back to the vbay homepage. (I want it to redirect to the sell page)

This goes for every page.

[TravelForum]

Originally Posted by brandonroy

I went ahead and nofollowed all vbay internal links (auctions, categories, etc) and disallowed all of the /vbay.php?do= pages in robots.txt. So my vbay homepage is the only page that should get crawled and indexed by google. I find this better than having a bunch of duplicate titles and meta's. Also saves on bandwidth

I actually want every auction page to be crawled and I also want every auction page to have a se friendly URL.

Does anyone know of a vBay install on a site running VBSEO they can point me to?

[brandonroy]

Originally Posted by TravelForum

I actually want every auction page to be crawled and I also want every auction page to have a se friendly URL.

Does anyone know of a vBay install on a site running VBSEO they can point me to?

Me too, but it's pointless for me without unique meta, titles and even h1 tags.

For example, I have the last element in my breadcrumb link tree wrapped in h1 tags.



But all of the last elements in vbay are "browsing categories" or "viewing item".

[Blaine0002]

Originally Posted by TravelForum

Blaine0002: This is true and the solution (besides paying out for VBSEO and then having yet more upgrade / cross hack headaches) is to migrate vbay onto VB4 when it comes out. Do you think you will be doing this? If you say "Yes / Probably", I will hold off until you do (or then declare you wont). If you say "No / Unlikely", I will go with the current VB and buy VBSEO (uugh).

Also, did I read you had an advanced (pay for) version of vbay?

i will actually be most likely only releasing a new version for VB4, as it would be kind of pointless to upgrade the mod, then upgrade it again with the release of vb4.

[zombietom]

come on ..please do a update...i;m using it on 3.7.1 and would like to see an update...

[zombietom]

Originally Posted by Blaine0002

yeah steve, i guess i thought i fixed this in the newest version.
its a simple fix, just add an addslashes to the wysiwyg variable before it gets entered into the db, and another stripslashes when its pulled out.

Originally Posted by Blaine0002

steve, search for the variable $message in the vbay.php file

Would someone be nice enough to fix this and post up the updated vbay.php file so i can just upload it and overwrite my current file...i'm setting up a breast cancer fundraising drive and want to use vbay to help raise money...
Thanks

[dealcafe]

Has anyone figured out how to do the bid increments lower?

[dealcafe]

Originally Posted by dealcafe

Has anyone figured out how to do the bid increments lower?

I would be willing to pay someone to tell me.

[zombietom]

I would also chip in some Money for the lower bid increments and a relist feature.

[patsfans]

Is it possible to make users pay per listing? I've gone through all these threads but didn't see that anywhere. It seems like all you could do is to set up a "subscription" where people could upgrade to a seller's account, but there's no way under this software to limit the number of auction listings people could add.