I will be collecting data for how to price this in the next auction.

You will be able to donate a small amount of money to your club to promote your lot. Once promoted, the lot will get a green border in the tile view, and it will be slightly more likely to show up in the list of recommended lots.

Need to fail gracefully when a user attempts to create a duplicate lot. unique_together is working to prevent duplicate submissions, but we should fail more gracefully.

It would be simpler and easier to maintain if it were merged with the lot filter.

Additionally, we should try to annotate the lot with the user's interest level rather that iterating through lots and calculating it separately for each one

Real names on invoices
Sort lots you bought by lot number
Sort lots you sold by location
Add printable view

Not everyone wants lots to open in a new tab. Right now, list view does not, but tile view does. This should be customizable under your account.

Part of the friction of buying stuff is physically getting to the place to pick up lots. For casual hobbyists, it's not worth bidding on anything because they only want a couple things and it's a pain to go somewhere for a single item.

We should give some incentive for people to bid on at least one item. Once they need to get to the pickup location for any reason, a big barrier to purchasing stuff is removed.

Perhaps we could add a coupon to each auction so that the first time you place a bid in that auction, you get a $3 credit?

We should redirect to userdata, set a message, and then update the userdata page so the save button takes you to submit a lot.

There is quite a bit of redundant code here. Invoices should use the new lot.payout method. This would be simpler and easier to maintain down the road.

Users want to be able to donate lots

Add a copy lot button to a lot. This would set date_posted to the current time and reset the pk, but keep everything else the same.

Would need to figure out how to integrate this with auctions and individual lots.

Charge $1 per lot for bids placed in the last half hour of the auction. Charge $2 for bids placed in the last 15 minutes.

The message about bidding being closed for a given lot seems to replace the ability to remove said lot from the Watched Items list.

Users need to be able to create their own auctions, set their own rules/splits/meetup locations/etc. and edit those auctions.

When submitting lots, users should be able to associate their lots with an active auction.

There is a new lot recommendation system that contains a couple new ways to see lots:

• 4 recommended lots are now visible on the lot page
• There is a new recommended for you page, although this was mostly put together for testing and there's no public links to it yet. This page will show up to 50 open lots in any auction.

How does it work?

As you browse the site, lot views and bids get recorded. Each page view is 1 point, and each bid is 10 points. The categories of these lots are used to calculate your interest level in each category.

When you request a recommended lot, the following happens:

1. A lot is randomly chosen (on the lot page, it's filtered by the current auction). The lot must be open for bidding.
2. The lot's category is compared against your normalized interest in that category (that is, the category you are most interested in is 100) If you've never clicked on a lot, this will be 25
3. If the randomly selected lot has been promoted, your interest in it will get artificially inflated a bit.
4. A random number is thrown between 0 and 80 (80 is used instead of 100 to slightly weight against your favorite categories)
5. If your interest in the lot is greater than the random number, you'll get shown the lot. If not, a different lot will be selected.

Require firsname and lastname when users first sign up.

See also #13

Donate x to the club and get to see:

• number of watchers on a lot
• number of views on a lot
• lot price history

Two I would like to see are most lots posted and greatest diversity of fish posted.

Currently you need to sign in to see pictures. Sign-in should only be required if you want to place a bid

Add the ability to ask questions and talk shit about lots. This would require a websocket, see #7

When new lots or auctions are posted, email users.

This is low priority since most users find out about auctions via Facebook or club meetings.

We should cap image uploads to 20 mb or so, and then resize them after upload so the page loads quickly.

Something like...submit lots until XX/YY

It would be great to have a list of exactly what data we keep and when it's shared with other users.

For example:
You real name is shared with:

• the auction creator when you select a pickup location of an auction
• the seller when you buy a lot in an auction
• the buyer when you sell a lot

Keep track of how likely a user is to buy/sell lots. These numbers seem most interesting:
Lots bought:lots sold
Lots bought:lots viewed
Lots sold:lots viewed

Some code exists for this already - the only places to change this are the lot templates and when bidding (don't show the success) message.

This is low priority unless someone wants it.

This is not super necessary for club auctions, but is essential if #4 is implemented.

Don't show the amount of the bid or allow editing, but allow the auction owner to remove individual bids from an item. Currently this can only be done from the admin page.

Can more than the 'View Details' button be clickable? Maybe even the whole card, but at least the images and titles.

Users can't change or set their names/emails/etc. right now.

support external links at a minimum

Show a total of watchers and page views on the lot page visible to all users

This would require websockets on lot view page. This would be nice for last minute bids, but doesn't seem necessary right now.

Have an option to end stuff spaced out by half an hour, ending in 4 groups. For example, if the auction end time is 6:00 PM, have group 1 end at 6:00, group 2 end at 6:30, group 3 at 7:00, and group 4 at 7:30.

The issue with how things are right now is that users have no idea how much they are spending or what lots they've won, until the auction closes. If someone is bidding on multiple bags of the same fish, they might accidentally buy all of them, or they might miss all of them.

This feature lends itself to sniping, it might be worth combining it with #2

They should be visible only to admins and creator of the auction

Right now we can't see invoices, they are only emailed to users and visible in the admin page. See also #10 and #13

Right now if your max bid is $10 and the actual high bid is only up to, say, $8, you can't change your max. It just tells you that you're already the high bidder. It'd be nice to be able to do that for the "You know, I really want this fish and I don't know if I'll be here at the last minute" type of aha moments.

Create a wishlist section that allows users to indicate interest in a particular species, and get notified if that species is posted.

Need a series of "drip marketing" style emails following opening an auction.

These would serve to answer common questions about how the site works. No more than 5 emails in total and no longer than 3-4 sentences per email.

Include unsubscribe link in the email.

Allow things like local pickup only and shipping.

This would directly compete with Aquabid.

Right now, the main issue I have with this is that it takes away the incentive for users to submit lots to a club auction (since directly submitting a lot bypasses the club split).

Right now, everything is fine as long as everyone using the site is on EDT.

At some point, we need to add a place in the user page (#13) to specify your time zone update templates to display local time instead of server time.

probably also need ban reason

Post pictures of new lots to Twitter or Instagram.

See also #5

Received the following error when trying to select Chicopee as the pickup location for the PVAS fall auction.

Integrate ad words API to advertise lots. We probably also need to add support for paypal so that users can pay for their lots to be advertised

It would be helpful to see the yellow watched item star when looking at the gallery view of auction lots.

For example, if there are multiple lots of the same species added to the auction over time it would be easier to see if a new one was not being watched when scrolling through the listings and/or verify that all are being watched.

New model: auction_tos. Instead of displaying the show auction rules on the lot form, check to see if the user has seen the auction rules. If they have not, redirect them and make them sign and select a location they'll be at before they can bid.

This could be an interesting idea to encourage people to bid on stuff they wouldn't otherwise bid on.

Have achievements for things like buying a fish no one else wants to bid on, spending over $30 on a single lot, breeding 10 different categories of fish, breeding 10 different species in a single category, etc.

Seems like a good thing implement if we ever get a large enough userbase.

https://pypi.org/project/django-post-office/

It would be fantastic to see who has viewed which items and how long they spent looking at each one.