TRADING
Offers for My Items
In the main menu is a section labeled "Trades"
Click on the "Offers for My Items" link in this section to view a list of your items that have any current offers made for them by other users
To see the details for an item listed on the "Offers for My Items" page, click the "View Offers" button on the right side of the item
The detail page shows your item along with a list of the items and cash amounts that other people have offered for your item
Each item will have displayed its Picture, Title, date it was offered, Description, and Username which links to the user summary page
To accept an offer for any of the items, and create an available trade, click the "Accept Offer" button on the right side of the item
To accept an offer for a cash amount, and create an accepted offer, click the "Accept Offer" button on the right side of the cash amount
To reject an offer for any of the items or cash amounts and have it removed, click the "Reject Offer" button
Once you accept a trade offer for one of your items, you will be taken to the "Available Trade" detail page
The detail page first shows the item that you have accepted along with your item
Next it shows some details of the trade, including Your Status, the Matched Date, Number of Users Total, Number of Users Agreed, and Trade Status
Your Status will be "Agreed" because you accepted the offer
If you change your mind and no longer want to make the trade, click on the "Cancel Agreement" button to the right of Your Status
The Number of Users Total in this trade is two, a direct trade between the users in this example
The Number of Users Agreed is one, because you accepted the offer for this trade but the offering user has not yet agreed
The Trade Status will be "Available" because the trade has been matched but not every user has agreed to it yet
When a trade is first matched it will have status "Available" until all of the users agree to the trade
Next this page shows the Trade Users that will be involved, along with the items that they will be getting and giving, and their User Status
Finally the page shows a "Chat" area that we will use later
Going back to the "Offers for My Items" page in this example, "jfBasketballFan" clicks the "View Offers" button for his football card
Here we can see the baseball card that "jfFootballFan" has offered for the football card
This offer will not be accepted because "jfBasketballFan" is shopping for basketball cards
Next the sample user "jfBasketballFan" goes to the "Shop for Items" page and finds a basketball card
He offers his football card to "jfBaseballFan" for the basketball card and is taken to the detail page showing his offer
This offer will not be accepted by "jfBaseballFan" since he is shopping for baseball cards
Next the sample user "jfBaseballFan" goes to the "Shop for Items" page and finds a baseball card
He offers his basketball card to "jfFootballFan" for the baseball card and is taken to the detail page showing his offer
This offer will not be accepted by "jfFootballFan" since he is shopping for football cards
However, it also shows an "Available Trade" underneath the basketball card that he has offered
This "Available Trade" is a combination that JF Cards' trade matching process has found for a group exchange, based on the offers of our three sample users
When a trade is first matched it will have status "Available" until all of the users agree to the trade
Next it shows some details of the trade, including the Matched Date, Number of Users Total, Number of Users Agreed, and Updated Date
The trade Updated Date will be reset any time one of the Trade Users agrees to the trade or cancels their agreement
To view the details for a trade listed on the "Available Trades" section, click the "Trade Detail" button on the right side of the trade section
The "Available Trade" detail page first shows the shop item that you would get along with your item that you would give
Next it shows some details of the trade, including Your Status, the Matched Date, Number of Users Total, Number of Users Agreed, and Trade Status
The Number of Users Total in this trade is three, the sample users we have seen in our examples
The Trade Status will be "Available" because the trade has been matched but not every user has agreed to it yet
When a trade is first matched it will have status "Available" until all of the users agree to the trade
Next this page shows the Trade Users that will be involved, along with the items that they would be getting and giving, and their User Status
Finally the page shows a "Chat" area that we will use later
You can also get to this "Available Trade" detail page by clicking "Available Trades" in the main menu and clicking on the "Trade Detail" button
Once all users have agreed to a trade, the Trade Status changes from "Available" to "Agreed"
In the main menu is a section labeled "Trades"
Click on the "Agreed Trades" link in this section to view a list of all currently agreed trades that you have
Each "Agreed Trade" in the list has displayed the shop item that you will get along with your item that you will give, along with the Agreed Date when the last of the trade's users agreed and changed its status from "Available" to "Agreed"
To view the details for a trade listed on the "Agreed Trades" page, click the "Trade Detail" button on the right side of the trade
The "Agreed Trade" detail page first shows the shop item that you will get along with your item that you will give
Next it shows some details of the trade, including the Agreed Date, Number of Users Total, and Trade Status
The Number of Users Total in this trade is three, the sample users we have seen in our examples
The Trade Status will be "Agreed" because all of the users have agreed to the trade
Next this page shows the Trade Users that will be involved, along with the items that they will be getting and giving
Click a user name to view details of the user
Finally the page shows a "Chat" area
On the trade detail page click the status Edit button to mark your items as received or sent, add a note, and rate the other user
The "Agreed Trade" detail page includes a "Chat" area at the bottom
The "Chat" area is where the trade users can message each other in order to plan out and complete the trade
Simply type any message in the text entry area and then click the "Add Message" button
Once you have typed any message in the text entry area and clicked the "Add Message" button, your new message will be displayed underneath in the "Chat" area
The "Chat" area displays a list of all the messages that have been entered by any of the users, sorted by date with the newest at the top
Each message shows the user who wrote it and the time that they wrote it