How to use the Serebii Trade Centre...

[Serebii]

Sorry but your method is not user friendly. 8 times out of 10, when people are looking for a trade, they are looking for specific Pokémon and this is what this is set to go for. Having it by Members would make things a LOT more difficult for anyone to find what they want at all

You dont have to post in like 100 different topics. Have some restraint. People doing that would be classed as spammers

They may get spammed a bit yes, but that'll just be a small fraction of the spam, bumping etc that was going on in the previous trade forum

And believe it or not, people are a lot smarter than you give them credit for. They will look beyond the first page

This is the best and most logical system and thats that

[Casual_Friday]

I have a question. Say im looking for an item. I post in the item thread. There, i want to list everything i have that i want to trade. Pokemon, items, pokemon with items. The list could go on seeing as there are plenty of pokemon and plenty of items. Now, i dont want to clutter the thread with a nice copy-paste from "notepad" listing what i have in my possesion. That would be bad

Something ive been thinking about is hyperlinking to my old trade thread that had that neat copy-paste in a neat format. They could be forwarded back to that thread to see what i have to offer and then post back in the original item thread. Now, this leads to my question.

Will the trade threads created before the merge be deleted rendering my idea moot?

I figure that my ramblings may be hard to look through so if you have no clue what im saying ill see if i can clear things up.

[kirkeastment]

Sorry but your method is not user friendly. 8 times out of 10, when people are looking for a trade, they are looking for specific Pokémon and this is what this is set to go for. Having it by Members would make things a LOT more difficult for anyone to find what they want at all

You dont have to post in like 100 different topics. Have some restraint. People doing that would be classed as spammers

They may get spammed a bit yes, but that'll just be a small fraction of the spam, bumping etc that was going on in the previous trade forum

And believe it or not, people are a lot smarter than you give them credit for. They will look beyond the first page

This is the best and most logical system and thats that

what about the other supposed 2/10 people who are not looking for specific pokemon but instead were making threads listing all the pokemon they had up for trade, and they listed that they were looking for perhaps only event pokemon or they were looking for only shinies{not specific shinies but just shinies in general}, what are they supposed to do now.

Also now that the new system is in place, who actually decides whats considered spamming.

Example:

I've got 30 different shiny or event pokemon i want to trade, and i'm not looking for specifics. I'm only looking for other event pokemon or shinies.

Would i be allowed to post in the 30 threads that my pokemon are a part of, or would i be subjected to the rules and have to limit my posting to only 5 threads a day, and if its the latter, then whats the point of calling this a trading thread, its just like another member called it in the general section.

Its and updated form of the GTS, only just a little bit more conformed with less hacks.

[Metal Force]

Wow, great job, great job Joe, I really mean it, the trading forums are alot better, and easier for us, thank you.

[jackass2911]

we want the old 1 back it was so much better

[luna88]

but wat if a person want to post a trade list? then he have to do it 1 by 1?

[sephirot]

i totally agree with kirkeastment

it's impossible to use this new sistem for generic request like "looking for event pokemon"

old method was 10 times better

[joschi16]

yes 10 times better

[sephirot]

and all users have to make their offers in only one topic per pokemon?
that's no sense for me -.-
it's impossible to track question and answer this way

and i'd like to know where i must put a topic like this: "looking for event pokemon" that involves all 4 gen... it's not possible to post in every single section, and in every single topic for all those pokemon!

i think that a possibility is to keep both section....

[buzzthebatgirl]

I prefered the old method. I like to just browse for offers. This new system is great if you are looking for just one Pokemon, but since each thread is set to one poke it can get confusing if, say, three people are offering the same pokemon in the thread.

[sephirot]

and i think more than 3 users will post...

[tominator_49]

my computer struggles to load serebii quickly and efficiently because of the high level of traffic. I worry this is going to be far more time consuming with the new system as I'll have to look through many seperate threads. At least with the old system you could stick to your own thread and wait for offers!
Go back to the old system while we still can!

[sephirot]

i totally agree

[Serebii]

We're not going back to the old system. That was partially responsible for SPPf being so damned slow with all the constant spam posts, bumping etc. It was taxing the server

[Lord Bowser]

The trade-section is completely dead right now. =/

[tominator_49]

Also, if someone is looking for a pokedex filler like Muk, they will go onto the Muk section and there will be no posts. Compare this to mew or deoxys which will be flooded. No one's going to bother posting under the muk section 'I am trading a muk' because they wont necesarily get much for it. And you say we're not allowed to say 'I want.....such and such(muk)' so it looks like people are going to struggle to get the less wanted pokemon and will have to wait around for someone to offer one (in some pokemon's cases, this wont happen) whereas people looking for deoxys will have more than enough to choose from.

[sephirot]

he said he won't change back, but i do not think it's a good idea

i preferred a slow forum with a cool trade section, not a fast forum with a horrible trade section

[Lord Bowser]

Does anyone now a good and big forum that has a normal WiFi-section? =/

I give this two more days, to see if it grows...hardly doubt it will though.

[MidnightStorm]

I had a question, that I (believe) wasn't answered here.

Are we allowed to put offers on these posts, or must all trades be completed using PMs?

[msnges3]

l was doubting this thing would work and stuff, but I am having fun jumping from pokemon family to the next !