rreynolds opened this issue on Oct 11, 2003 ยท 7 posts
rreynolds posted Sat, 11 October 2003 at 7:23 PM
I got a coupon for a 10% off Halloween sale, but can't see much reason using it when I cannot readily find Halloween items other than to use the search engine--and I've never been real happy with the lack of being able to zero in on searches with that engine. Without somebody else doing the work to show me the Halloween stuff available, it's not worth my trouble trying to dig that stuff up.
dialyn posted Sat, 11 October 2003 at 7:24 PM
You don't have to buy Hallowwen stuff with the coupon.
dialyn posted Sat, 11 October 2003 at 7:24 PM
In some countries, that's spelled Halloween. I'm not having a good day.
randym77 posted Sun, 12 October 2003 at 6:40 AM
It would be nice to have a showcase of holiday merchandise. You know, like the "seasonal" aisle at a bricks and mortar store. There are a million ads on the MP page now; maybe they could use one row or column of them for seasonal stuff. I know I'm more likely to buy Halloween stuff just before Halloween, Christmas stuff just before Christmas, etc. If that's not possible, maybe we could encourage merchants to post their seasonal items to the Product Showcase forum, in the proper season. Even if it's not new and not on sale.
dialyn posted Sun, 12 October 2003 at 8:57 AM
Both are good ideas...why not post them onto the Community Improvement Forum or Forum news so that the Administrators are alerted to people wanting seasonal items. There have been several new products for Halloween on the Product Showcase forum, but, you're right old items aren't necessarily revisited.
ClintH posted Mon, 13 October 2003 at 11:07 AM
The search engine works for this as well. FYI, Clint
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randym77 posted Mon, 13 October 2003 at 11:39 AM
I don't find the search engine very useful for this particular purpose. There are a lot of items that are suitable for, say, Halloween, that don't mention the word and therefore wouldn't come up in a search. Andi's graveyard props, for example. Yes, you could do multiple searches, for "halloween" and "witch" and "pumpkin" and "graveyard" and "candy" and "mask," etc. But, IMO, most people aren't going to go through that much trouble.