We are excited to announce the next big Deckbox release - version 3.0. This is a very special release for us, one that comes 6 years after the starting work on the initial idea for this website:

commit 90c7012d3f8847b675ebbf559d3b240043b53ddb Author: Sebastian Zaha <s...@gmail.com> Date: Thu Mar 27 18:43:43 2008 +0000 Initial import

We always wanted to become the best MtG singles trading website on the net, and we have not given up on that goal. Two big things were stopping us from realizing it: features helping users to sell cards to one another, and more practically - resources (time and money to enable full time developers and support people). But we're about to fix all that!

Introducing the Deckbox Market

This release will allow users to become sellers! No more micro managing singles on ebay, now you can manage your collection, tradelist, sales and purchases directly on Deckbox.

There are many other services for selling singles on the internet, but we want to create one that has users (as opposed to big stores) as the main target. We want to create a usable, intuitive and solid platform for person-to-person trading and selling.

Becoming a seller is quick and painless: you need a verified PayPal account to be able to receive payments from other users, and to read and agree to our Market Rules and Terms and Conditions. We also require a verification payment of 10$ (this is not a fee, you will receive it back as a discount on your first Deckbox Bill). More info on the selling cards page.

As a seller you will be able to add prices to the cards in your tradelist. Other Deckbox users will automatically see your listings if they have those cards in their wishlist. When a buyer makes a purchase, the money will be directly sent to your paypal account. We will take care of notifying you of the purchase via email, and then you can get the package ready for shipping:

Buyers will leave feedback for sellers, much like the trade feedback. Taking care of fast and careful packaging & shipping will ensure your seller score will stay positive.

Please take a look over the few documents on fees, seller protection program and market rules, in the Sellers section of our help pages.

This is all just the beginning. We have many plans to improve the Market in the coming months! Price histories for cards, with nice graphs. Statistics of most collected / traded / sold cards, and many other goodies.

Other features and changes

We intend to smoothen and tighten the trading process and Bad Trading Report resolutions. Please take a look at our revamped Market Rules. We intend to streamline the BTR process, allowing for less discussions and arguing. We will be faster and prompter in awarding negative feedback and suspending users. Furthermore, people that are defendants in

BTRs are not allowed to open trades until the BTR is solved. People that open BTRs without having a good reason will also receive negative feedback.

Please take a look at our updated Terms and Conditions and Market Rules documents. Also check out the brand new guide on packing and shipping cards, courtesy of our awesome user marumari.

We've added a Vacation Mode. Find the setting by clicking on Edit Profile.

We have also acquired a second server and set up better performance monitoring tools, to get the site speed and experience to top-notch levels.

Upcoming

Next we want to finally deliver on our promises for a public API. We know many of you would like to implement cool apps for phones & other devices, and we want to give you the tools to do so. We want to start making a clearer plan for it next month, and come out with at least the read-only calls at some point in May.

In parallel, we also promised to include the missing promo editions to our database, and we know many of you also wish to track tokens. We'll be looking at that as soon as we can.

Thank you for reading and as always, we look forward to your feedback!

[Update] We have started to compile a list of Frequently Asked Questions. Check it out here: http://deckbox.org/help/market_faq. Thank you for all the feedback and questions, keep them coming!

Last edited by sebi (2014-03-25 14:43:09)