estherau opened this issue on Feb 10, 2009 · 33 posts
efstarlet posted Tue, 10 February 2009 at 12:18 PM
Quote - in the recent past they basically "hid" the freebies. You really have to know how to tweak the engine to find freebies. I know that's CP's perogative, it is a commercial site......but it sure loses some interest for me being so more and more commercial over there.
oh yeah also they have forum moderators whose job it is to jump into threads and sell ,sell, sell. did you know that ?????
I just wanted to address these comments. CP has been making a lot of changes and efforts recently to solve exactly these problems, and it's possible you may have not noticed them?
CP has actually taken big leaps in the past 2 months to clean up the navigation and the product categories and move things around to where they should be. We actually have listened and made it easier to find clothing and character sets, and recently have put the new releases links right at the top of the left navigation where they are quick and easy to access. There has been a giant manual audit going on with the catalog to make sure that things are where they are supposed to be, and we are working with our vendors to address many of the other things users have mentioned.
There has always been a link in the navigation to all the freebies, with the newest released at the beginning, and the front page box was better formatted to show off the freebies and the vendors that donate them. There has been no attempt to hide them, in fact, we have been trying harder to spend more time showing off the hard work that people are donating to the market, and trying to get them the attention they deserve.
Also, the CP Forums doesn't have moderators...just a few staff members that pop in now and then to answer questions and share products and post about sales. One of the purposes of the forums is to be a place for information and CP is not unique in this.
CP is working hard on being a better marketplace, and we listen. There have been lots of changes recently, and lots more coming...We appreciate your input and sharing your feelings. I hope you will take a moment and give CP another look and see we have addressed many of the things you mentioned.