Author Topic: New price filter (Read 29354 times)

franckreporter · « **on:** June 23, 2011, 15:06 »

following the announce right now : http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=331068

JOYZE:We’re releasing a new search filter today that will allow clients to sort results by price. By default search results will contain files from every price range. To narrow results, you can select preferred price ranges by adjusting the “Price Range” section on the left-hand side of the page in the search facet area.

The lowest price level (one dot) represents files requiring fewer credits to download, while the highest price level (four dots) represents files requiring a higher number of credits to download (our premium collection). This “Price Range” filter is a slider that lets the client either select a specific price level or set a range of price levels that they’d like to search within.

This has been a long time request from our contributor and client base. The price filter will make it easier for clients to find the files they’re looking for within their budgets.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #1 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:11 »

Great news for everyone, imo.

asiseeit · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:16 »

This sounds great. Hopefully it'll go in without a problem... I mean, without many problems

franckreporter · « **Reply #3 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:16 »

yess...I hope that all those who have left will come back soon, now need a good advertising campaign!

cathyslife · « **Reply #4 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:17 »

I just looked, I'm not seeing it yet. Or did I miss it? Maybe they meant tomorrow, Friday, after 5...isn't that typically when new "features" get added?

Slovenian · « **Reply #5 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:26 »

Woo yay!!

SNP · « **Reply #6 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:28 »

good move, glad to see it is finally implemented...wonder how it will affect Vetta and Agency sales...maybe it won't at all...after all buyers who need to search by price aren't the demographic for V/A anyways....

lagereek · « **Reply #7 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:29 »

Yes! could be very effective.

ShadySue · « **Reply #8 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:29 »

Quote from: cclapper on June 23, 2011, 15:17

I just looked, I'm not seeing it yet. Or did I miss it? Maybe they meant tomorrow, Friday, after 5...isn't that typically when new "features" get added?

I'm guessing Joyze used 'are' releasing as in 're going to be'. As in "I am going to X tomorrow". She didn't say, "we have released".
Great so long as it works, and more options than most expected.

caspixel · « **Reply #9 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:34 »

So is this one of those things that is coming "soon"?

franckreporter · « **Reply #10 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:37 »

Quote from: ShadySue on June 23, 2011, 15:29

Quote from: cclapper on June 23, 2011, 15:17
I just looked, I'm not seeing it yet. Or did I miss it? Maybe they meant tomorrow, Friday, after 5...isn't that typically when new "features" get added?
I'm guessing Joyze used 'are' releasing as in 're going to be'. As in "I am going to X tomorrow". She didn't say, "we have released".
Great so long as it works, and more options than most expected.

maybe later today

Freedom · « **Reply #11 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:38 »

That's a positive move. Glad they listened.

cobalt · « **Reply #12 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:39 »

Excellent! A price slider is much better than a simple "Vetta off" filter.

lisafx · « **Reply #13 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:46 »

Hooray! This is great news. Buyers have been begging for this so long, I can hardly believe it is actually happening.

SNP · « **Reply #14 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:50 »

Quote from: cobalt on June 23, 2011, 15:39

Excellent! A price slider is much better than a simple "Vetta off" filter.

absolutely. I think this is the best way they could have implemented this feature. impressed this feature is being released so quickly.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #15 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:51 »

A price slider between one dot and four dots sound like something they are trying to hide as much as possible. Clearly, the idea is that the ordinary punter will never find it but those who start complaining about price can be pointed in its direction.

I take the semi-cave-in on this to be an indication that the current strategy of promoting high-priced stuff has backfired badly. Big corporations never react quickly to anything that runs counter to established policies, things have to get pretty bad before they admit to making a mistake.

cobalt · « **Reply #16 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:53 »

Quote from: lisafx on June 23, 2011, 15:46

Hooray! This is great news. Buyers have been begging for this so long, I can hardly believe it is actually happening.

We still haven´t seen it work ;-)

cthoman · « **Reply #17 on:** June 23, 2011, 15:53 »

Sounds like an improvement. Sad to see that it looks like it is still ranges. It would be nice to search for an exact credit price.

SNP · « **Reply #18 on:** June 23, 2011, 16:00 »

Quote from: cthoman on June 23, 2011, 15:53

Sounds like an improvement. Sad to see that it looks like it is still ranges. It would be nice to search for an exact credit price.

why? I think this is exactly opposite of what we would want...and I'd doubt that most buyers would search for precise credit prices....I think a range is a much safer way of searching.

asiseeit · « **Reply #19 on:** June 23, 2011, 16:27 »

Quote from: SNP on June 23, 2011, 16:00

Quote from: cthoman on June 23, 2011, 15:53
Sounds like an improvement. Sad to see that it looks like it is still ranges. It would be nice to search for an exact credit price.

why? I think this is exactly opposite of what we would want...and I'd doubt that most buyers would search for precise credit prices....I think a range is a much safer way of searching.

If someone has just 10 credits left, they may only want results that they can afford to purchase. I do think that that could easily be too confusing however, given the different prices in sizes and all.

Smithore · « **Reply #20 on:** June 23, 2011, 16:35 »

That's at last a good news from istock!

luissantos84 · « **Reply #21 on:** June 23, 2011, 16:46 »

LOL time to take away photo+ pics!

SNP · « **Reply #22 on:** June 23, 2011, 17:11 »

default ranges:

1 dot includes exclusive & indie files, main collection and P+ files

2 dots includes e+

3 dots Vetta

4 dots Agency

best match is mixed results as per usual, and the ranges can be adjusted to include more price options

ShadySue · « **Reply #23 on:** June 23, 2011, 17:13 »

Seems to work pretty well so far. I only tried a couple of searches.

lisafx · « **Reply #24 on:** June 23, 2011, 17:14 »

Looks really good! ~~It also appears to default to one dot, which will probably please buyers.~~

Scratch that. It's just that the best match is not so vetta and agency heavy, so it looked similar to the one dot setting.

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