Dear pHingers,

Kindly take note that we are performing a Data center relocation.

There will be a service disruption on 24 Oct 2010, 0001hrs to 1200hrs

The new data center is designed to support new hosting model like public and private cloud hosting and to also improve quality and speed of our internet connectivity domestically and globally. With the smarter data center management, it enables us to respond to outage quickly and more effectively.

 Thank you for your understanding and patience.

As quoted.

Hi,

This is a scammer. He cheats by taking orders and then say item were seized by Customs. After you pay more money, they claim item were mistakenly packaged with other items. You have to pay more.
ITEM never arrived.

please warn others about him. He sells Apple iPhones, BB and now iPad.

I was stupid and got conned for USD600.

Thanks,
T404

We know there are some diehard scammers around using prepaid cards to bypass our security verification as Local Users trying to make this place unsafe and wasting our SMS credits. :(

Thus, we implemented a new feature to guide buyers/sellers and discourage such scams further. Let me introduce the "Logged in from" feature.

Pretty self-explanatory as you will be able to see from how many countries the user has logged in from.

Would you still wanna trade with him? The risk is solely yours. :)

Side note: Do report and flag out suspicious posts to us.

1. You will noticed a new "Connect with Facebook" button.

3. Done. You can now use your Facebook login to access pHing.com

4. So, what does this do? See below for pHingBump

• Another new feature aim to improve the ad's quality score and allow the viewers to share good deals with their facebook friends.
• It will post an update onto your Facebook wall. Try it.
  
• Take note that there is a Facebook API limitation of 10 posts from pHingBump a day.
  

5. So what else can it do if i logged in via Facebook connect?

• Upon posting of new ad, you will be prompted to "Update Facebook?"
  
• Click the check box " Yes please!"
• You will be able to post the ad both into pHing.com and publish this ad onto your Facebook wall.
  
• Cool! Ask your friends to help you to pHingBump as it will improve the chance of your Ad showing up on our Homepage's Mosaic of Ads which is based on some Ad quality scores.
  

Ok that's it for this feature update. Time to pHingBump. Try it.

Happy New Year 2010

Times flies when it comes to running services on the internet.
pHing.com have been serving the pHing community 18th August 2005.
Yes, we have been around help you to do buy/sell for more than 4 years.

We have undergone a re-design and re-launch 1 year and 4 months ago.
I am proud to share 7 key milestones with all since that revamp.

What's done!

1. We have started a blog. (Yeah not really that updated.It does serves as a good area from announcements)
2. We have implemented mobile phone verification which brought scams down significantly. (We know there are still some die-hard scammers around, so do take care.)
3. We have enhanced quite a few features during the year. eg. Kaypoh Channel!, Ad Bump, Block User, Flag an Ad , Ad posting Quota and its removal, Easy sharing of Ads, etc)
4. We have tried our hands on an early Xmas gift for the iPhone lovers, i-pHing which is now available on AppStore.
5. pHing.com has more than 26,000 users with more than 290,000 ad listings.
6. pHing.com has delivers more than 40,000,000 ad views to both buyers and sellers till date.
7. pHing.com received more than 7,000 daily visitors everyday.

What's next?

Consumers and Individuals

1. We will be progressively enhancing our current platform to make it more transparent, efficient, fun and engaging.
2. You can expect more social components to increase the reach of your Ads.
3. You can expect to see more features that will help you in your decision of buy/sell.

Business Community

1. We are also currently reviewing how we can bring more value to the business community that currently exist in pHing.com
2. This will take some time as we all got full time jobs to do.

Meanwhile, enjoy your stay in pHing.com and stay cool and stay clear of troubles.
Will keep you guys updated along the way!

Leave your comments at our blog too.

Jackie
on Behalf of the pHing Team

From gondoo123

I suspect that i have been scamed by the following company:

Vojtech Limited Uk.
36A Goring Road Goring By Sea.
Worthing,West Sussex
United Kingdom



It has promised to me by this company that i will recive i unit of an IPhone upon transfering the fund to the company and after i have done that they told me that they are unable to so so and wanted me to transfer another sum of money for 2 units in order for them to shiip the iphones to me.

an example of the advertisement on your website would be:

http://www.phing.com/listing/154250-Iphone-3G-16-GB-latest-Version-200Usd

i hope that you will take action against them and remove their adds to prevent other singaporeans to be scamed.

your assistance is very much appreciated

thank you.

Did a minor permission tweak to allow ad owners to moderate the discussions on their own ads. This comes after many requests from ad owners who wants to keep maligning messages or hostile messages away their ad. From an ad owner's point of view, this is important so as to not affect potential users from contacting/buying.

If you genuinely want to provide feedback on your experience with the ad owner, do so via the user's feedback form instead. By providing feedback, I meant do so if you have actually converse/trade with the user before judging.

As for how a seller wants to sell/price/term his/her items, just let it be or you can always throw a friendly advice via his/her contact form. Come on, let's all be friends. :)

In the past, you will be redirected to your Dashboard after you have logged in. Now this has changed such that you will be redirected to the page you were at before hitting the Login link. This should make pHingers less frustrated about logging in then retracing back to where they were before.

If you still wish to get redirected back to the Dashboard at times, there is an addition "Go to Dashboard instead of my previous page" checkbox on the Login page.

The other minor update is that suspended ads can now be hidden as well. This will make the default manage ads page less cluttered (especially if you were a hardcore spammer).

Hope you guys enjoy the changes made and we do appreciate your feedback. Cheers.

Yet another "why it wasn't available by default" feature. Now you can simply click on the trash bin icon to delete any messages that belongs to you.

Example of trash bin icon on an ad discussion page.

I would like to re-iterate that having multiple accounts per user/company is a strict no-no.

Why?

• This is unfair to users who abides to pHing's terms
  
• By having more than one account, you can potentially post/bump more than 3 of your ads within 30 minutes
  
• Make users browsing the ads waste a lot more time time skipping through your multiple accounts with similar ads
  
• Posting of an ad is free so everyone should be given equal chance to have their ad show up in pHing

This is the 3^rd major announcement on new features so in case you were wondering, the 1^st and 2^nd announcement were titled differently. For future updates, we will follow this convention so let's see what's new this time?

User Feedback System

This is the most voted for idea and I am sorry it took so long. I had a more complicated reputation system in mind but figured that the classic +/- 1 might actually work best.

All users will now have an additional link to their feedback page (see mine) where anyone can read about feedback submitted as well as submitting a feedback. There are some rules to the submission of feedback which you can more about it in our FAQ if you want.

Ad Photo on Manage Ads Page

We did not wish to complicate the manage ads page so it was kept simple all the while. There were feedback that showing the ad photo will help users identify their ads and true enough, it really does seem to help me.

No More Ad Quota

The idea of having an ad quota was to control the number of ads coming from one single user. However, this does not seem to help since it is never easy to find a sweet spot for the quota level to suit all users. Hopefully, this does not create more duplicates nor spam. Ads can still be flagged down and if any user appears to be spamming, we will not hesitate to suspend.

Easy Sharing of Ads

Although I have never felt the need of refering an ad to a friend, it seems like some of you do. We integrated the ShareThis button on all ad view page so you can choose to share the ad with a friend or even post the ad to your social networks easily.

That is all I have for you guys, stay tune to the next update and keep the feedback coming!

If you have been reading enough, you might have already know about the netbook trademark controversy. For those who don't, just note that a certain company has filed a trademark for the term "netbook" so technically you should no longer call your beloved Asus Eee, HP Mini, MSI Wind, etc. a "netbook". Unfortunately, an identical trademark (T9705577B) is filed in Singapore so we have to make sure all our users cease using the term "netbook" for ads posted until the legal stuffs get sorted.

So until further notice, I urge all users to rename/remove the term "netbook" from their ads. The deadline would be 1st February 2009. By then, any ads that still contain the term "netbook" would be suspended. We seek your cooperation and hopefully we will not have to suspend any user accounts with regards to this. Thank you.

Woot, we have a slight change of layout for the search results page which will hopefully make reading even easier and mostly to accomodate the two ad controls we are adding. "What are controls? I don't see them." Ad controls are just the two new "things you can do to an ad" on the search results page. You don't see them because it only shows up when you hover the ad.

The idea is to reduce clutter so you can scan the ads faster.

Block user

Now you have the ability to block any user's ads from showing up on your search results page! Think of it like a personalized search where you can block users you will never want to transact with and slows your browsing of ads.

If you have blocked any users, there will be an extra search filter block which allows you to see whose ads are being blocked and also allowing you to unblock.

This feature is marked as (beta) and each user can only have up to 30 blocked users for the time being. This is so that we can monitor how it affects searching and basically this puts a greater load on our server as well. So enjoy while you can.

Flag this ad

This is one area where I really hope pHingers can help out in. There are many many ads posted each day and although many users email to complain, only a small handful of users actually flag the ads. Flagging the ads will allow us to moderate them faster and more accurately. This means if enough users flag an ad which is truly "bad", the ad will get suspended.

Previously, you can only flag an ad from the ad details page so it might seem like a hassle. Now that flagging an ad is just a click away, we hope to have more pHingers helping out.

Feedback

While we are working hard, please continue to vote/suggest ideas via our feedback forum.

Till date, the only way of reporting bugs and providing feedback is to do it via our "Contact Us" page. But from today onwards, we have an official feedback forum powered by UserVoice. This will allow us to better understand our users needs and common problems (bugs) encountered.

See the feedback tab on the left of this website? You can now submit a bug/idea on any page you are at. It will also allow us to know the URL where the bug occurs. Easier for you, better for us. We have already created a list of ideas to begin with but feel free to submit more. So head on to our feedback forum and cast your votes now!

It has been quite a while since I wrote on this blog. Just thought I will throw in a quick update about the minor feature added recently to prevent spamming of ads.

The basic idea is simply to not allow ads by a single user from hogging pages and pages of the search results. Each time you bump/post an ad, you get one step nearer to hitting the Spam threshold. The threshold is calculated based on the no. of ads bumped/posted over a period time. Finally, any user will not be allowed to bump/post until they are back in the "safe zone". I hope you can see how it helps.

The problem with such changes is that there are like double edged swords. On one end, most buyers will be happy that they will not have to browse through pages of ads finally to arrive at ads they really want to see. And on the other end, sellers will be unhappy that they can't "market" their ads or have to waste more time bumping their ads. Unfortunately, there is hardly a sweet spot for any of the quotas nor threshold. Probably the only solution is to have a pay-per-post model but that just isn't pHing yet.

We are constantly monitoring the happenings in pHing so do know that we value all feedbacks and keep them coming!

For your information and vigilance.

Disclaimer: Instances are not verified by pHing in any way.

Case A (A Complaint against http://www.phing.com/user/Yoshi_Petcharat)

akobana says

pHing - Reporting Scam

"Hi Administrators.
Regarding about AD ID #16812.
I just contact a member (Superboy) selling 2wire router. Met up with buyer at sengkang mrt. Confirm with him whether the router is workable. And he promised me he will return my money if the router not working. End up i went home and tried. The router not working. Call up the buyer that router not working, and i insist to go to his house and try it out to prove there is something wrong with the router. And he insisted the router is workable and refused to return my money"

Case B (A Complaint against http://www.phing.com/user/Superboy)

nanananabp says

pHing - I WAS CHEATED

"Hi,

Yesterday night oct 16. i bought a AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Socket 754 CPU from this guy, Yoshi_Petcharat hp: 81544212,
when i reached how and install the procesor shows only 3200+ not 3700+, i call him he did not answer,sms a few time then he replied and denied that the pcsor was 3200+ it was 3700+, and then i decided to take out the prosr to check the printing letter, and yes it was 3200+.
so again i call and sms and no responed, i just wanna refund, but his not an honest seller, till now i cannot get him,
pls help if can don't let others get cheated like me.

Thank you
From the frustrated guy
Rahmat "

Kindly take note.