Dealer Discount

Webdunk wrote: Thoughts are as follows : - eMail field needs to be voluntary - discount field is too restrictive. Needs to be able to cope with 7.5% or variable or free chamois with every valet, etc... Free text field? - category field is too restrictive. Dealers for example fall under all of the current categories beginning with 'BMW'. Perhaps Checkboxes would be more appropriate here? - Contacts home does not reflect the true number of entries in the subsections (perhaps it's reflecting 'approved' entries?) - When displaying a list of entries, the description field shows the last 'XX' characters. This looks wierd. How about either a full entry or the first 'XX' characters. - Don't know if you've not enable it yet, but I didn't get an eMail when submitting test entries. Concept looks sound tho - particularly the 'leave a comment' facility. Any joy on perhaps using forum user names rather than eMail? Some users still prefer to protect their eMail addresses... Looking forward to it going live. Cheers, Duncan

- I think the email field should be part of it - the email addy will not be used for anything other than verification. This is stated clearly in the 'all new' terms & conditions page.
- I'll modify the discount box somehow to take other options into account.
- I had an 'All' category which should umbrella all categories - maybe if I redefined it somewhat (General?)
- contacts home (default.asp) shows any listings that have been verified. I reckoned that there was no point in showing counting entries that have not (& may never be) verified.
- the page list.asp is now corrected - I used the incorrect code RTrim instead of LTrim and got the 50 characters on the wrong side of the description.
- you answered the last one yourself. Whilst testing the application, I received emails to my account within about a minute.

Is the leave a comment better than a simple voting system? The comment route does open the system to slandarous comments (the system does send an email to the admin whenever a new listing / comment is entered)

Duncan,
1) I hear you but if the companies email address was voluntary how would the listing be verified as being cosher?
2) I completed a local test and it worked fine (done locally as the internet connection here is brutal - my 20 students and myself all sharing a poxy 64k connection)

With regard to the leanbh (Irish, pron. lan-iv), we ended up having to go to the hosipddle this morning @ 4am (the wife was having a bit of bother). Bother turned out to be nothing but they became concerned with something else and have decided to induce her so the wean should be out tomorrow or Thursday.
Meanwhile Im @ work & knackered!

You may be correct though - entries could be moderated but there is nothing to stop someone saying that BMW are giving a 50% discount on all used cars (or whatever) and there is no real way of checking this without ringing them. Also having all listings & comments being moderated by ourselves before being displayed possibly puts more onus on the club to get things right.

However, I will add another field to the database which will be the email addy of the listing / comment author. The verification email will be sent here. Therefore I could leave the company email as a non-required field. ( horray to me).

does this open us to slander?

Disclaimers legally aren't worth the paper they're printed on / file they're saved in

AIUI If users of this board are making factual recommendations and comments based on their own experiences then we do not have a problem. Where we could run into bother is where Member A says :

"Joe Bloggs parts and servicing are cr@p!"

Where either :

a) Member A has no proof

or

b) Member A is making it up.

By comparison, Member B saying :

"I was very disappointed by the service from Joe Bloggs parts and servicing. It took them 4 weeks to change my air filter and cost me £300."

Is perfectly acceptable as long as it is factually correct.

Id reply but Ive just realised how exhausted I am (my son arrived today ).
Maybe voting system is best!?
Ill put all my thoughts down tomorrow.
K.

 Nigel, Its a great idea and overdue!!!!!!We WILL find a way to get over the Dis Claimer, just want it right from the begining, for all Club members and the Club.

                SAFETYFAST

Congratulations Killian, and you wife too.

Welcome to 18 years of sheer hell !!