It’s oh so hard to adapt to change. Can’t you just do it right the first time? :_(
I thought there was a problem and the Group Buys page wasn’t loading or something. Now I see what’s happened.
Please read through the first post in this thread for the explanation of why this change was necessary.
I want to take this opportunity to let Mr. Admin know how much I appreciate his hard work to make BLF such an awesome forum.
This place runs a lot more smoothly than most places, and I have a lot of fun here. :)
:party:
I used to navigate directly to the Group Buys. Now it’s split into two groups, BLF Special Edition Products and BLF User Negotiated Deals, which I find hard to remember and more complicated to navigate to.
This is how I’d really like to see this area organized and re-named:
Budget Flashlight Buy/Sell
Commercial Sellers’ Spot
Budget Dealer Experiences
BudgetLightForum Deal Alerts
Want to Sell
Want to Buy
Group Buys _ BLF Special Editions
Group Buys _ Negotiated Deals
If that is asking too much, can I simply request pulling out the BLF User Negotiated Deals from under the Commercial Seller’s Spot and into the general category. I mean, there’s already recognition of this need by the embedded link (short cut) in the description of the the Commercial Sellers’ Spot. And shouldn’t the two group items be paired, one right next to each other, for people to easily find them?
This is the way that recommendation would look, without any name changes, just simply reorganized:
Budget Flashlight Buy/Sell
Budget Dealer Experiences
BudgetLightForum Deal Alerts
BLF Special Edition Products
BLF User Negotiated Deals
Want to Sell
Want to Buy
Commercial Sellers’ Spot
I’m not the only one having difficulty navigating to the new BLF User Negotiated Deals section.
Use browser bookmark?
Thanks 1dash1 for the suggestion. The thing is, I don’t really want to implement any more changes for the time being, since BLF users (myself included) are somewhat averse to change. Also, I prefer for the BLF User Negotiated Deals to be under the Commercial Seller’s Spot since those deals are often to a certain degree more commercially driven than the BLF custom lights.
I understand why the system was set up the way it was.
I just have a different point of view of what the need is.
Exception taken, your Honour. :face_with_monocle:
if i may beg a bit….
the possibillity to use “filters” on the “Recent Posts” page would be great(est!)
- hide / show subforums
- toggle “show only threads with updates or new posts”
I’m really sorry that this doesn’t seem to really be possible at the moment. I tried playing around with this a bit, and it didn’t work very well.
Wasn’t there a rule that affiliate link must be followed by non-affiliate link!!!
It’s optional, now that affiliate links are restricted to two specific categories, users should realize that any threads in those categories probably have affiliate links.
Oh, ok thanks 
That greatly sucks! They should always provide a Non Aff link!
That's 2 steps back in my opinion.
Your logic is flawed. 
the real Problem is (and always have been):
some shops do not use afflinks, but count the sales by the used codes.
so you never had the chance to “unaffiliate“ your order on other shops as banggood.
80% of the “groupbuy“ or “best price again“ or whatever deals you clicked did benefit someone.
- you may feel tricked now…
Sb searched a way to make that more balanced again and tried not to penalize only banggood affiliates.
+ 1
+1 they should be banned for good. That would also bring some relief in flood of threads with buy this-buy that content.