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Support => Customer support => Topic started by: beaverpelt on April 29, 2013, 05:04 pm

Title: new vendor - question regarding 'domestic only'
Post by: beaverpelt on April 29, 2013, 05:04 pm
Hi

I have 2 questions if I could get some assistance please.

1) I am a new vendor and offer some services. As they are services no physical item is delivered.

I noticed when I set my 'ships from' in the ad listing to "united states" for example, any user outside of USA who has 'domestic only' listings ticked will not see my ad in the category. Users in USA who have domestic only ticked will obviously see my listing. 
Is their a way I can make it so users from all countries who have 'domestic only' ticked will see my ad listed  ??
If so, that would be great :) I know when I buy on SR 99% of the time I have 'domestic only' ticked.. I would hate for a large portion of users who also have it ticked to miss out on seeing my listing.

2)  Can I verify myself as a vendor somehow so I do not need to post the 50 posts of garbage so I can start a vendor thread in the market place ?

Sorry for putting this same thread in 'newbies' but unfortunately my thread in that subforum goes to page 3 after 5 minutes due to all the crap people are posting up to try and get to 50 posts.

thanking you in advance
Title: Re: new vendor - question regarding 'domestic only'
Post by: grahamgreene on April 30, 2013, 08:24 am
Hi

I have 2 questions if I could get some assistance please.

1) I am a new vendor and offer some services. As they are services no physical item is delivered.

I noticed when I set my 'ships from' in the ad listing to "united states" for example, any user outside of USA who has 'domestic only' listings ticked will not see my ad in the category. Users in USA who have domestic only ticked will obviously see my listing. 
Is their a way I can make it so users from all countries who have 'domestic only' ticked will see my ad listed  ??
If so, that would be great :) I know when I buy on SR 99% of the time I have 'domestic only' ticked.. I would hate for a large portion of users who also have it ticked to miss out on seeing my listing.

2)  Can I verify myself as a vendor somehow so I do not need to post the 50 posts of garbage so I can start a vendor thread in the market place ?

Sorry for putting this same thread in 'newbies' but unfortunately my thread in that subforum goes to page 3 after 5 minutes due to all the crap people are posting up to try and get to 50 posts.

thanking you in advance

Change 'ships from' to undeclared; as you are note shipping a physical item there is no need to have a country of origin. I'm fairly sure this will solve your problem,but as we can't access Silk Road at the moment I can't confirm it.

Message one of the forum moderators and include your vendor link; they should be able to take you out of "Newbie Purgatory" as it seems to be called these days. Again though, due to not having access to Silk Road there will be no way to verify that you have a vendor account so they may not let you out until they verify that.

Your best bet would be simply to reach 50 posts. Whilst I do not condone forum spamming, the "post to 50" threads are generally tolerated as long as the participants do not spam elsewhere on the fora.

- grahamgreene