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
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.
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.
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.
Not only this ^ but it literally costs you NOTHING to click an aff link, so in cases where there is not a non-aff link, what have you lost? And, if aff-links are so bad, you still have a choice of simply NOT BUYING the item, or of buying it somewhere else. Trying to FORCE your hatred of aff-links into law is something you should go to some other forum for. IMHO, there is no place for that here at BLF.
I completely agree. This definitely invites more abuse with a blind eye deliberately turned away from managing it. We already have far more than our share of members who skate on the cusp of vague BLF policy for their own personal monetary gain and other benefits. The primary complaint of members against aff links is that BLF provides a safe harbor for these unscrupulous activities, where most other forums expressly forbid it. Its gotten far out of hand and detracts from the value of information provided on this forum.
At the very least, can you please make it mandatory that all aff links must be accompanied by non-aff links, regardless of where they are posted? Some specific verbiage in that regard would be greatly appreciated.
