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invertmast 03-08-2019 08:03 AM

I rarely even go to the classifieds anymore. The amount of stuff (of interest) is significantly less than it used go be.

i find it amusing that the old system was “broken” but yet worked phenomenally for 15+ years. Was it an ideal system code wise... no idea as fhat is not something i am familiar with.
BUT
it was an ideal system for the customers who used it, which is what “business” is about. If you give your customers something that is of poorer conceived value bc it makes the business owners life “easier” your going to lose customers and that is Exactly what i see happening here.

While some of the IB people are doing their best to improve on the abomination of what we were given, its far from what we all expect and have been accustomed to receiving from RCU and the lack of participation and uprising of complaints is showing.
Sometimes a little extra work on a owners part is worth it to keep your customers happy.

Auburn02 03-08-2019 08:40 AM


Originally Posted by T3chDad (Post 12508553)
My post got removed and I received a PM telling me not to offer better places on their site.

That's too funny. But given what we've seen lately about what the site admins really care about, not all that surprising.

LGM Graphix 03-08-2019 08:55 AM


Originally Posted by invertmast (Post 12508706)
I rarely even go to the classifieds anymore. The amount of stuff (of interest) is significantly less than it used go be.

i find it amusing that the old system was “broken” but yet worked phenomenally for 15+ years. Was it an ideal system code wise... no idea as fhat is not something i am familiar with.
BUT
it was an ideal system for the customers who used it, which is what “business” is about. If you give your customers something that is of poorer conceived value bc it makes the business owners life “easier” your going to lose customers and that is Exactly what i see happening here.

While some of the IB people are doing their best to improve on the abomination of what we were given, its far from what we all expect and have been accustomed to receiving from RCU and the lack of participation and uprising of complaints is showing.
Sometimes a little extra work on a owners part is worth it to keep your customers happy.

I still look at the classifieds somewhat regularly, mostly out of habit, but what I've seen and I'm sure one of the many reasons it has slowed down, is there does not appear to be anything giving sellers/buyers notifications of posts etc. I see so many ad's where people are posting in there and the seller comes on a few days later and says "I didn't realize there had been posts in here". The new system doesn't work, plain and simple. But it doesn't seem to matter to the powers that be I guess. I understand the old platform was no longer supported, but it's been a year now. Surely in a year they could have come up with something new, more similar to the old system and had it in place. It's pretty clear they just don't want to. I hate forum based classifieds, that's what most places are and it was the one thing that truly separated RCU from the rest. The make offer feature, the billing feature, feedback from the seller actually visible on the same page as the ad, everything about the old system was good.
I guess I get it though. In this day and age it doesn't matter where you go, customer service is lacking, no matter what the industry. Forums have by and large gone the same way. It's like the attitude of the admin is "let them complain, they aren't going anywhere and if we do lose a few we'll gain a few anyways". So you see it happening. Myself included. When all these changes took place I said I was done with RCU as did many others. I even stayed away for a while. But none of the other forums picked up. People can say the jet forum on RCG is great, there is rarely anything going on. I came back here because frankly it was still the best place for jet discussion. I do not buy or sell in the RCU classifieds anymore though, they have definitely lost me there. I browse, but I haven't bought or sold anything on RCU since the changes. I just think it sucks that the attitude is who cares what the members want, eventually they will get on board.

IBThomas 03-08-2019 03:06 PM


Originally Posted by LGM Graphix (Post 12508717)
I still look at the classifieds somewhat regularly, mostly out of habit, but what I've seen and I'm sure one of the many reasons it has slowed down, is there does not appear to be anything giving sellers/buyers notifications of posts etc. I see so many ad's where people are posting in there and the seller comes on a few days later and says "I didn't realize there had been posts in here". The new system doesn't work, plain and simple. But it doesn't seem to matter to the powers that be I guess. I understand the old platform was no longer supported, but it's been a year now. Surely in a year they could have come up with something new, more similar to the old system and had it in place. It's pretty clear they just don't want to. I hate forum based classifieds, that's what most places are and it was the one thing that truly separated RCU from the rest. The make offer feature, the billing feature, feedback from the seller actually visible on the same page as the ad, everything about the old system was good.
I guess I get it though. In this day and age it doesn't matter where you go, customer service is lacking, no matter what the industry. Forums have by and large gone the same way. It's like the attitude of the admin is "let them complain, they aren't going anywhere and if we do lose a few we'll gain a few anyways". So you see it happening. Myself included. When all these changes took place I said I was done with RCU as did many others. I even stayed away for a while. But none of the other forums picked up. People can say the jet forum on RCG is great, there is rarely anything going on. I came back here because frankly it was still the best place for jet discussion. I do not buy or sell in the RCU classifieds anymore though, they have definitely lost me there. I browse, but I haven't bought or sold anything on RCU since the changes. I just think it sucks that the attitude is who cares what the members want, eventually they will get on board.

That isn't our attitude at all. We understand your frustrations with the marketplace, and believe me, we share a lot of the frustrations. We wish we could roll out all the updates and fixes we have planned immediately, but it's just not something that is possible. For months we've been releasing updates and fixes based on the feedback we get for the site, and we have a lot more updates and fixes planned.

mongo 03-08-2019 04:21 PM

the best update, would be an auction based software for the classifieds,
that is what the old system was, and there were valid reasons to be using that type of software for the classifieds, instead of just having the classifieds just be another forum section.

LGM Graphix 12-06-2019 07:14 AM

Sigh.....

RCU members: the new format sucks, the classifieds used to be the best, after the changes that couldn't be any worse!

RCU: hold my beer and watch this!

Agrav8ed 12-06-2019 08:52 AM


Originally Posted by lgm graphix (Post 12568295)
sigh.....

Rcu members: The new format sucks, the classifieds used to be the best, after the changes that couldn't be any worse!

Rcu: Hold my beer and watch this!

agreed

sysiek 12-06-2019 09:03 AM

More and more nails to the rcuniverse coffin

causeitflies 12-06-2019 12:47 PM

At least I see they FINALLY put the start date under the thread titles. Now we know when a thread is ten years old before we reply.

sysiek 12-08-2019 08:39 PM

But they lost the feedback,just noticed that non of the members have no feedback???? What is going on with rcuniverse?!?!?

mongo 12-09-2019 04:59 AM

this feedback:

RCUniverse Member Profile: sysiek

LGM Graphix 12-09-2019 05:59 AM


Originally Posted by mongo (Post 12568797)

It's there but it would sure be nice if it was like it used to be and visible right in the ad. But then it would be nice if the classifieds were the way they used to be overall.

Interestingly enough, I cannot find that page at all on mobile either so from my phone you can't find feedback at all.


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