A seller has to become verified by sending TropicalFishAuction.com a $5.00 paypal payment. If the seller is a verified paypal or Google Checkout member, they will receive an icon next to their username. The $5.00 payment will be credited to their account balance and can be used for auction enhancements. While this is not foolproof nor gaurantee a sellers reputation or business practices, at least the buyer will know that the sellers bank information and address have been confirmed.

Protection for sellers:

A seller can post requirements in their auctions for potential buyers such as:

1. Must Bidders must be a verified paypal or Google Checkout member.
2. Only accept Money orders or paypal. or Google Checkout.

Another issue we are addressing is multiple registrations with different usernames. This is usually done for the purposes of posting positive feedback on themselves, raising bids or to hide a bad reputation. We do log all IP addresses of new members and will terminate any account caught using deceptive practices. There is a "Report Abuse" button in the member control panel which can be used to report any suspicious activity, failure to pay, failure to ship, etc...

Again, these are not all foolproof remedies but should help to protect buyers and sellers.

• Display winners/sellers username on the purchase invoice
• Ability to assign custom fields to subcategories
• [add all] or [select all] button in the invoice creation process.
• Add counter to site status to display number of open/active stores
• Ability to "create similar listing" from a closed listing (sold or unsold)
• Listed time column added
• Browse tabs added
• New browsing pagination option added
• Brand new bulk listing method
• Improved image/media uploaded using Ajax (no page refresh etc)
• Added wanted ads to browsing categories
• Stop buyer/seller bid retraction when the item has twelve or less hours to run
• Let the seller chose if he wants to display the item views counter when he creates the listing
• Free category change when the item has not received any bids
• A Large volume seller has no easy way to see items that are pair or not paid for - allow the status column to be sortable
• Add delete option for combined invoices on the [Sold] section of the members area rather than having to go to [Invoices Sent]
• Reputation percentages on stores directory
• Combined store setup page
• Password protected stores
• View auction option added when completing the listing process
• Ability for seller to chose to show/expose his offer range
• Revamped browsing with custom fields/standard fields introduced for narrowing browsing/category pages
• Ajax direct payment fields
• User data handling updated to support PayPal
• Integration of USPS, UPS, Fedex
• New page for offers so buyer/seller can see what offers have been submitted and the status (declined, pending, accepted; currently declined offers deleted)
• Saved searches
• Seller vouchers
• Feedback reminder added
• Ability for buyer to include or exclude insurance on their shipping cost
+More minor changes/additions