Enable Chat Dilemma
TappedOut forum
Posted on Sept. 18, 2018, 12:02 p.m. by buildingadeck
So currently, the enable chat feature is only available to upgraded users. This is problematic considering that initiating trades is also only available to upgraded users.
Essentially, this forces people who are not upgraded to post their email or other contact info on a public website in order to complete a trade. This is not reasonable, and it needs to be changed. Additionally, taking away privileges has never been a good business model (a limited amount of research would prove that to the people running the site). Rather, add privileges for upgraded users and return to non-upgraded users the basic privileges of site usage.
Suns_Champion says... #3
I agree with this post. It seems unreasonable to not allow chat for what is probably the majority of users.
That said, I'd like to encourage people to upgrade. A one time $5 investment to the site that gives us so much is worth it a hundred times over.
September 18, 2018 11:04 p.m.
You are saying that such privilidges were taken away, but were they ever available to non-upgraded users? If not, they were never taken away and you signed up while knowing which features are available to upgraded users.
There are multiple ways to do this without giving away personal info, but it is best to upgrade - 5 bucks is hardly much, when most of tradable cardboard is worth as much or more. I mean, if you are trading cards, the total value of the trade is likely at least several times the cost of upgrading.
September 19, 2018 2:59 a.m.
buildingadeck says... #5
Enable chat was available to non-upgraded users for most of my time here.
It's a free site. I do not HAVE to upgrade, and I most certainly shouldn't need to upgrade to trade, even if the cardboard I'm trading is worth more than $5.
September 19, 2018 12:06 p.m.
Friend you are mistaken, I've been here 2 years longer than you and Chat has ALWAYS been an upgraded user privelage.
September 22, 2018 10:58 a.m.
buildingadeck says... #8
If you look at my profile, you'll see that I've been here longer, and I am not mistaken. Enable chat was how I conducted all my trades prior to this change. Thank you for your insightful input though.
September 22, 2018 2:56 p.m.
I've been here 6 years, you've been here 4 years...
September 22, 2018 3:36 p.m.
buildingadeck says... #11
Misread your post. Either way, enable chat was the method with which I performed trades with non-upgraded users for years, so unless it was just bugged on my account, your assertion is incorrect.
September 22, 2018 3:50 p.m.
Can't you send a trade request and then comment on it there
September 22, 2018 3:53 p.m.
buildingadeck says... #13
We can send trade requests? That was upgraded user only for as long as I've been on this site.
Epochalyptik says... #2
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September 18, 2018 12:32 p.m.