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Discussion in 'Support & Feedback' started by digitalpoint, Jun 14, 2014.

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  1. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #41
    A couple new things... buyers can see the country the writer is in. The search function is able to search the content of the articles for sale, but it doesn't show the article itself. For example if your article has the word "boating" in it, people will find your article pack that contains that article in search results if they search for "boating".
     
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    #42
    Very interesting. Great addition!
     
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    #43
    I like that search feature, very useful for buyers. Nice!
     
    sukosaki, Jun 17, 2014 IP
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    #44
    Great. Actually that's why I suggested to make the quality scorer add tags automatically to uploaded content by detecting its keywords.
    But anyway as the search is doing it now while maintaining privacy of uploaded content, buyers will be able to search articles more specifically.

    Any particular reason for this? Just curious.
     
    Content Maestro, Jun 18, 2014 IP
  5. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #45
    It's pretty standard in article marketplaces... Article buyers sometimes want to know where the writers are from.
     
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    #46
    Thank you @digitalpoint , this is a brilliant idea. As a freelance content writer, DP has always been a great place to sell my content. However, I had always felt disappointed in the past when my articles were constantly undercut by poor or plagiarised content. I am always proud of the quality of articles that I produce, and now you have created a way to filter out the less desirable articles!

    I've just posted my first article in the new article marketplace and I hope that it really kicks off! Keep up the good work!
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #47
    So it turns out that Indian PayPal accounts aren't compatible with chained payments (the way the marketplace works) because they are unable to make payments from their PayPal balance. I ended up building a work around where sellers with Indian PayPal accounts will fall back to a parallel payment mode instead of chained payments.

    Basically what this means is non-Indian PayPal accounts keep working with chained payments (buyer pays seller and then seller pays us the seller fee). For Indian PayPal accounts, it's a little different... The seller sees two line items on the payment (one payment to the seller, and one to us). The total payment amount is still the same for them and the seller still gets the same amount of money, but the seller fee we collect ends up just being paid direct as part of the original payment from the buyer.

    It's a little strange, but ultimately the only other choice was to disable Indian sellers from being able to sell stuff in the digital goods or article marketplace until PayPal allows those accounts to make payments.

    I added a little note about it in the Marketplace Terms as well: https://marketplace.digitalpoint.com/terms

    Again, if you are a seller with a PayPal account outside of India, there is no change to how anything works.
     
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    #48
    Thanks for the workaround digitalpoint.:) That's tremendously going to help sellers from India like me in the marketplace.

    However, I am still unable to see the two line items. Only one item is visible which includes the complete price. I am providing a screen below to show how the article I have uploaded for selling looks from my account.
    marketplace item.png

    Is it supposed to be something different?
     
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    #49
    It's two line items on the PayPal checkout process.
     
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    #50
    It's really nice that our API in the article marketplace checks uploaded content for plagiarism. A great move to block content piracy.

    If you are interested in knowing more tools like this, I would suggest to take a look at some third-party plagiarism checkers I have mentioned here – https://forums.digitalpoint.com/thr...st-of-free-alternatives-to-copyscape.2700629/. That's basically a list of FREE tools I have compiled which can be considered as alternatives to Copyscape (a very popular and widely used plagiarism checker). The bad part however is that there are severe limitations imposed upon their free usage. E.g. you can check only a certain number of words at a time or you can use most of these tools only twice or thrice a day. So not really useful for checking over a large chunk.:( But in any case, I hope that marketplace sellers find the list somewhat useful. You can always opt for the commercial or premium versions for a fee and I don't think they cost too much.

    Hope this helps.
     
    Content Maestro, Jun 20, 2014 IP
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    #51
    That list is pretty much what I'd found too. The API is the key thing for my users.

    Funnily enough I was talking about plagiarism with my 16yo and she expressed surprise that there were sites to check. Clearly when you live on tumblr, polyvore and instragram you can actually miss a few things.
     
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    #54 
    object(stdClass)#46 (2) {   
["results"]=>   object(stdClass)#49 (1) {     ["error"]=>     string(42) "This API call requires premium membership."   }   
["code"]=>   int(403) 
}
    Code (markup):
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    #55
    Oops... was checking for is_admin instead of is_staff. :) Should be fixed now.
     
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    #57
    How will sold articles appear? Will they be faded or removed from the list?
     
    Content Maestro, Jun 24, 2014 IP
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    #58
    Seems to be great service, what about adding some more categories, like travel?
     
    lentak, Jun 24, 2014 IP
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    #59
    You can request a category if you wish while creating a thread and choosing one. We have this feature.
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #60
    They are removed from the list. No point in showing the things you can't buy.
     
    digitalpoint, Jun 24, 2014 IP
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