Buyers want to ask before they bid, and after the sale both sides need to talk about payment and shipping. PHP Bid 2.0 adds a private messaging system that keeps those conversations on your website instead of in personal inboxes.
When buyers and sellers swap e-mail addresses, the next deal often happens without your marketplace - and without your commission. Built-in messages keep the relationship on your site, where every deal pays a fee.
Conversations are tied to an item or a sale, so everybody always knows what they are talking about. Members get one e-mail per conversation until they read it, which avoids notification floods, and a safety note reminds them to pay through the website.
In Admin > Members > Member messages you can read and delete conversations, which makes it easy to handle disputes and fraud reports. Banned words and rate limits protect your members from spam.
Sellers type what they sell. AI writes the title, picks the category and condition, estimates the value and suggests the starting, reserve and Buy Now prices.
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Buyers search the way they talk: "a Rolex under $10,000 ending soon". AI turns the sentence into the right category, price and time filters.
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Buyers propose a price on fixed-price items and on auctions without bids. Sellers accept, decline or send a counter offer - and accepted offers become normal sales.
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