The new Afternic price-change field - where you set your BIN price, etc - has been changed.
The previous one was quick and easy; you click on the little pencil/edit button, set your new price, hit Enter, and it's done instantly.
Now... I can only call the new version 'insane'.
You click on the little pencil/edit button, and a NEW WINDOW pops up, for you to make all your pricing changes - before, we could do all this without a new window. Why add a whole new window for something that had been quick and easy without a new window? That's only a small part of the 'insane'; here's the big one:
When you finish making your price change/s and click the okay button... the new window disappears and you are (hopefully) supposed to go right back to your domain list, where you just (unnecessarily) left. Now, this extra stage of having to use this pop-up window takes some extra time... but the return to your domain list becomes INSANE after you reprice a handful of domains.
You go back to your domain list, and the farther down your list that you are re-pricing domains, the worse it gets. You literally get a blank list. You have to click around the page, in order for the list to kind of reappear. I click in the navigation bar and that makes it kind of appear again.
Then... it takes a while for the list of domains to re-populate!
Then... as it's re-populating... you are nowhere near where you left the list when that pop-up window appeared. So you need to re-navigate and find where you were on your list, after your last re-pricing.
Then... you have to go through the whole process again for re-pricing the next domain!
Every two or three months, I look through my domain list and do a lot of re-pricing. Some domains I price higher, some lower, according to where I think the market is. Things keep changing. I know a lot of domainers re-price their domains often.
Timewise: this new re-pricing process at Afternic takes between 8 and 10 times longer than the previous one. I used to be able to go through my whole domain list, re-price them at Afternic, in around 30 - 40 minutes.
Now it's going to take me between 4 and 5 hours to do the same list that I used to do in just over half an hour!
What kind of insane change makes you take 8 to 10 times the amount of time that the previous easy, quick process used to take?
And what about functionality control: did no one at Afternic say to their IT department, "Once we make this change, somebody go in, re-price a list of a hundred domains or so, and see how long it takes. Let's make sure this is a good change, not a crappy change."
Not one person there did that?
@GoDaddy
It would be so nice if you could look into this. I already have a headache and eye-strain, just finishing re-pricing the first 100 of my domain list... each 100 names usually takes me 8 - 10 minutes, and this time that first 100 names just took me about an hour and a quarter!
I don't even want to start re-pricing my next few hundred domains right now. Hoping you can get your IT people to either correct the really time consuming and clunky system they just rolled out... or if they can't, please change it back to the old pricing fields. The previous ones worked! They were nice and easy and quick! Why change that to something that is now awful!!??
Many domainers have dozens, hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of domains listed with Afternic. And most domainers change their prices at least a few times a year. This new system... makes it impossible to do that. It is really slow, clunky, awful. I only have a few hundred domains, and your re-pricing process now makes that very daunting to me, and wastes so much of my time. Other domainers have many more domains than I do, listed with you. I cannot even imagine how they will deal with your new system. Please look into this seriously.
Thank you
