- Location
- East Sussex
What about clothing. Might have to subdivide so arable gets gilets and livestock get waistcoats!
Who would you like to see on Farm Marketplace ?
- Thread starter Lucy @ Farm Marketplace
- Start date
- Location
- Derbyshire
Would be useful to have someone offering a comprehensive range of milking parlour spares and consumables. Dairy chemicals, liners, clusters, pipes, milk meter spares etc.
- Location
- Devon
To be fair, many products were built better 30 years ago, not just iae.
Today they are built to a price, and iae and Bateman keep a very close eye on what each other are doing. Some products I prefer Bateman, some iae. Competition is good however and it was a sad day when the Bateman depot closed down here.
limestone brash
Member
When I look without logging in chemicals are listed
As soon as I log in 'no products are available '
What am I doing wrong please
As soon as I log in 'no products are available '
What am I doing wrong please
- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Are you logged in?
limestone brash
Member
Yes it's when I log in I can't see any products
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
Same for me
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
- Location
- East Sussex
I hate do this but can I give some feedback about farm marketplace without offending your commendable efforts?
The site just seems so hard and backwards to use. When using an iPad the cascade type category box goes off the bottom of the page and when you go to scroll down to see the bottom it just disappears. E.g. Animal health drops down so you can see equestrian at the bottom but you feel there's more below that but can not see it.
Animal health items as a category is just too large. I get ppe items such as face shields as well as dehorners, milk liners, colostrum and red rock salt. Surely these could be grouped to make the site more navigable? So rock salt, colostrum in one category, aprons and ppe face shields in another, dehorners, rubber rings and dehorning wire in another.
I'm sure I'll get told that I should use the search function but from experience with the one on the forum I don't think it's trustworthy to show me a comprehensive result. Try searching 'marketplace' using the top TFF search box and you'll get six results or so to one thread. If you close the keyboard (on iPad) so you can see the google search and use that you get shedloads of far more accurate and useful results. The inaccuracy has been acknowledged by TFF staff so why not have google search as the default search function?
Marketplace could be a great thing but I think without a better way to browse the products on offer I fear it will never succeed and this is a problem that will get more serious the more items that are listed.
I don't think you'll find many browsers buying items because the mix of items you have to look through are so varied. If you know you want part no. So-and-so and it pops up on the search then great. If I wanted to browse for parts for a particular baler as an example to see if I could improve its overall condition I don't think I could find anything. The other option is to go to a dealer and list a load of speculative parts and get prices but that's a bit long winded and is the sort of thing marketplace could and should deal with.
Surely you could get sellers to categorise their items better when they list them?
What do you think?
The site just seems so hard and backwards to use. When using an iPad the cascade type category box goes off the bottom of the page and when you go to scroll down to see the bottom it just disappears. E.g. Animal health drops down so you can see equestrian at the bottom but you feel there's more below that but can not see it.
Animal health items as a category is just too large. I get ppe items such as face shields as well as dehorners, milk liners, colostrum and red rock salt. Surely these could be grouped to make the site more navigable? So rock salt, colostrum in one category, aprons and ppe face shields in another, dehorners, rubber rings and dehorning wire in another.
I'm sure I'll get told that I should use the search function but from experience with the one on the forum I don't think it's trustworthy to show me a comprehensive result. Try searching 'marketplace' using the top TFF search box and you'll get six results or so to one thread. If you close the keyboard (on iPad) so you can see the google search and use that you get shedloads of far more accurate and useful results. The inaccuracy has been acknowledged by TFF staff so why not have google search as the default search function?
Marketplace could be a great thing but I think without a better way to browse the products on offer I fear it will never succeed and this is a problem that will get more serious the more items that are listed.
I don't think you'll find many browsers buying items because the mix of items you have to look through are so varied. If you know you want part no. So-and-so and it pops up on the search then great. If I wanted to browse for parts for a particular baler as an example to see if I could improve its overall condition I don't think I could find anything. The other option is to go to a dealer and list a load of speculative parts and get prices but that's a bit long winded and is the sort of thing marketplace could and should deal with.
Surely you could get sellers to categorise their items better when they list them?
What do you think?
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yes t.j
Interestingly we had a very good meeting this week and will soon have some exceptionally well priced pest control products on the site
There is an issue however that the legal requirements are tightening up significantly for such dangerous products so we will need to implement a system where you upload Farm assurance number and other paperwork before you can buy - this can all be done easy enough but it’s something we will have to get in place ASAP
All existing outlets of these products are going to have to do the same / should be doing so already so going forward you are going to have to jump through a few hoops to get these products from any supplier
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
sorry, i just couldn't help it when I read that.I can't say I "like" the situation, but the irony of it gave me a smile.
Last time I looked, oils were stuck in the middle of 'tractor parts' and the oils category was empty
- Location
- Cornwall.
That's all down to the vender allocating the product to the wrong category.
suffolksmallholder
Member
- Location
- Suffolk
I have just completed yet another course to enable me to buy & use rodenticide (another £250). With 25+ years experience & all the previous qualifications...... As you know @Clive I'm a smallholder. I do some professional bits & bobs for folk & one is rodent control. I don't have 'Farm Assurance' & I'm unlikely to have this ever. Will your site be able to help me or am I to be cast aside for being 'small'? I have & use a normal well-known supplier, again for the last 25 years, but it would be handy to be able to support your efforts as I regard this as a two-way-street.
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Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
The qualification on your course is the best option.
FA is only a temporary second best for now intended I think as a transition.
suffolksmallholder
Member
- Location
- Suffolk