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Re: [ANN] LocalBitcoins.com - a location-based bitcoin to cash marketplace
by
kangasbros
on 09/01/2013, 11:50:11 UTC
Feature requests:

- Ability to re-negotiate a 'buy' or 'sell' contact after a period of time. Hypothetical example: I have a buyer from a month ago who didn't stay in touch, and now they want to buy. But the contact is fixed at the rate it was a month ago, and doesn't reflect market prices. I'd love to have the option to update the request without cancelling and having the buyer/seller re-send the request.

- Ability for seller to auto-cancel a contact with a buyer if the buyer doesn't respond after a certain period of time (two weeks?). If the seller sends a message to a buyer, which doesn't receive a reply within a given amount of time, it auto-cancels the contact and sends a message to the buyer, "Buy request cancelled due to inactivity" or such, so the buyer knows they're to blame for not continuing the back-and-forth communication (not the seller being evil for cancelling a buy order).

Just a couple of thoughts. Thanks kangasbros for your hard work!

-jtibble

Thanks for the feedback!

Sometimes I get requests stating that "I want to buy week ago from now". I then just politely explain that create a new contact little before you come to exchange for the amount you want to exchange, and cancel the current contact. Just that someone creates contact/request does not mean that the advertiser has to comply on freezing the rate for extended periods of time.

Modifying the contact on fly could be good feature, but at least for now we don't have resources to make that feature. So the current recommended method is just to advise the contacter to create a new contact.