I'm pleased to announce that a system for sending Pending Transactions Summary e-mails is now live.

Once per week, all members with one or more pending transactions will receive an e-mail that summarizes all of their pending transactions. The e-mail also provides links to update each of those transactions (as their status changes) as well as a reminder to frequently visit the My Transactions section of the Collector Zone to manage all of their transactions.

An example of this e-mail has been attached.

We trust that this change will provide a valuable service to our members by simply helping to keep track of their pending transactions and encouraging timely updates to transactions.

-Bob

Cool Bob.

When is the Graphic Comp.?

Soon. I just needed to take a number of transaction-related changes live before moving to a new project.

-Bob

Thanks. The other additions are great too!

Kody.

This week's e-mails have been sent and, based on activity so far, they appear to be working. Members are encouraged to let me know if they see any inaccurate details in their summary, don't receive the summary even though they have at least one pending transaction or receive more than one copy of the e-mail.

Thanks,

-Bob

wow bob

that's really awesome!

worked for me!

Thanks Bob,

I thought that was a new thing when I got one. It will help immensely when people have been on vacation and they see an email listing transactions that need their attention.

just got mine it willbe helpfull when life gets crazy to keep track of allthe trades for people who do trade alot

It appears that these weekly e-mails will help in numerous ways.

-Bob

<----- Kicking himself for not doing this sooner.

-Bob

Working out that well, huh?

Early indications are certainly that it will lead to more timely updates to transactions.

-Bob

Glad to hear... Also happy to see this site constantly making itself better. Way to go bob!

hopefully it leads to an update of my 133 day old transaction

Yeah, great add!

Nice Bob, nice.

cool feature! I got my email today.

Thanks for all of the positive feedback.

Moving forward, the weekly e-mails will be sent on Tuesday mornings.

-Bob

This is a fantastic idea Bob.

Mike

Check your completed transactions, Brad.

-Bob

yup! i give the new system 6 million thumbs up!

well, not 6 million... but it works great!

Thanks. I knew you would be happy when I saw that one get completed.

-Bob

Hi Bob,
I think that this is a great idea. The only thing is that today I received 3 of the exact same emails from this. Last time I only got one, so I'm not sure what happened this time. Just thought I'd let you know.

Thanks for the information. We'll review the code and attempt to determine what might cause that to happen.

-Bob

I too received 3. Is there anyway to turn them off?

Edit: worse case scenario I could auto filter them into the spam folder.

Ditto.

No. However, they are now "turned off" for you because I simply moved your pending transaction to the Failed Transactions forum since the other member continues to ignore requests to update the status of that transaction.

-Bob

Did each of you only receive a single copy last week?

-Bob

As I stated in my post I did only receive 1 last week, but 3 this week.

Ok. I apologize for any duplicate e-mails. We'll review the code for this tool again and perform another set of tests prior to next week's e-mails being sent.

-Bob

Not a problem Bob. The delete button on my e-mail gets a lot of use to so I don't mind adding two more items to the trash.

Bob,

I got 3 today and 1 on Tues and 1 on Wed of last week.

Robert

The one on Tuesday of last week was part of the test set that only went to Collector Zone Team members and the one on Wednesday was the first of these e-mails.

The good news is that 3 seems to be the magic number that everyone received. Therefore, it should be easier to find and correct.

Again, I apologize for the duplicate e-mails.

-Bob

Sounds like a great idea. Only thing is I received 3 emails today for a transaction that is almost two years old. not sure whatever happened to the other guy I made the trade with, but he is not around. Is there anyway to get this old transaction closed? I don't want to get 3 emails a week for something I cannot control.

Thanks,
John

Cool, Bob! I received one last week and two this week.

-David

John,

I went ahead and moved your pending transaction to the Failed Transactions forum since the other member continues to ignore requests to update the status of that transaction.

-Bob

Thanks Bob.

This week's e-mails have been sent. Members are encouraged to let me know if they see any inaccurate details in their summary, don't receive the summary even though they have at least one pending transaction or receive more than one copy of the e-mail.

Thanks,

-Bob

bob did you ever get a chance to look into me and the MSF restriction?

This week's e-mails have been sent. Members are encouraged to let me know if they see any inaccurate details in their summary, don't receive the summary even though they have at least one pending transaction or receive more than one copy of the e-mail.

Thanks,

-Bob

Bob, I got three again.

Of course... Send multiple tests to myself and it looks fine. Send the live e-mails and...



Please don't use up all of your...



-Bob

It's really not a big deal, as gmail just groups them all together, but I certainly understand why you need to work to get it fixed.

I received three copies as well this week. No big deal, just saying.

<---- Thinks to himself... "How to spin this? How to spin this?"



The system actually has a built-in "irritation factor" which is currently set to 3. The irritation factor is used to assist in encouraging members to update their transactions in order to stop getting e-mails while avoiding causing so much frustration that they stop visiting the site.

-Bob

I don't think I got one this week....

Bob, I received 3 as well. I'd prefer it if we only received 1. Also, do you think you could get to my PM sometime?

Thanks,
David

So would I!



Yes. As soon as I'm prepared to move forward on either item, I'll let you know. At the moment, I'm racing in too many directions.

-Bob

Ok, sounds great.