Some time back, we mentioned that we were hard at work developing a more robust online Trading Dock. Many of you indicated that you would like to be able to post photos, conduct searches, receive email notifications, and so forth.
I am pleased to announce that we have made considerable process on the development of this new online system. The new Trading Dock site can be found at:
http://www.tradingdock.org
PLEASE NOTE: This is an advance notice to Chris-Craft Antique Boat Club members only. The new Trading Dock site is still under development, and enhancements are being made daily.
The new Trading Dock has significant advancements over our prior text-based system. The new site has the following features:
- 1. You can place your ad in categories that you choose.
2. Manage your ad yourself, including posting your ad immediately, without any lag time. You also determine how long you want your ad posted, and remove your ad from the online listings with a few simple mouse clicks.
3. Your ad can contain a very long text description. You are no longer limited to forty words per ad.
4. Your ad can contain up to six photos.
5. Once your ad is posted, you will see an "ad counter" indicating how many times your ad has been viewed. This will help you determine how appealing your offer is, and whether you need to consider altering the information to receive more attention.
6. Your personal information, including email address is hidden on the new Trading Dock site. This will keep spammers at arm's length and keep your privacy in tact.
7. Prospective buyers can contact you via www.tradingdock.org, but they will do so via several links, Tell-A-Friend, Contact Seller, Add to Favorites, Seller's Other Ads. You personal information is kept hidden in all of these links.
8. Your ads are keyword searchable. We will soon be enhancing www.tradingdock.org to include a zip code search.
9. Trading Dock Ads are FREE.
Also note that because www.tradingdock.org is a free online classifieds site, the club is merely facilitating contact between buyers and sellers. We are not a part of the sales transaction. We do not take a commission or brokerage fee.
On your first visit to www.tradingdock.org, you will need to register as a new online user. For those of you who are active on Boat Buzz, and for those who use PayPal for dues renewals, you can use your same login name and password that you use for other Club functions.
As we work on driving more traffic to this new Trading Dock site, we will continue to host and maintain the old boat listing pages on the Club site. As we migrate all of those listings to the new Trading Dock site, we will solidify the links to the new site and we will be very active in promoting the new Trading Dock. For those of you who have a listing on the current "Boats for Sale" pages ( http://www.chris-craft.org/BFSB.html ), please help us out by migrating your information over to the new Trading Dock as soon as possible.
Thank you all. I hope the new system works wonders for you all.