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Others Can't Reply To Your Threads!! (And More)

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Ozzy47

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When your service request has been filled, please reply to your thread stating as such. It can be very helpful to other members if you make a closing post, stating the membername of the person who fulfilled the request and if you where satisfied.

Also, PLEASE check your PMs and e-mail when posting service requests. Remember that OTHERS CAN'T REPLY TO YOUR THREADS in this forum, and you are likely to be receiving private contacts soon. We strongly suggest that you change your preferences here to send you an e-mail when you receive a private message to make the request be processed more smoothly.

If you didn't receive any responses to your service request (something quite rare), here are some tips to improve your chances:

1. Offer, increase, and specify payment. Many developers of vB modifications value their time and skills quite a bit and cannot justify working for $5 on a large template modification when another request has been placed at a reasonable price. Also, make sure you put at least an estimate of how much you expect to pay for the request to be fulfilled in your post, usually in United States Dollars as the majority of vB.org users are from the US. You should also very clearly state what forms of payment you can send. PayPal is the most common and always free to send money from.

2. Review your post. Did you state how you wanted to be contacted--e-mail, private messages, instant messages, by phone, etc.? The most common method is through a private message here with e-mail second. You should avoid instant messages as not all developers use or have access to all the necessary instant messaging clients. You should also avoid phone calls due to the likely need for an expensive long-distance call.

3. Be detailed, but not too detailed. Just stating that your forums has a bug that you can't fix and you are offering $20 means very little to readers of your thread. You need to describe the bug, what circumstances came about to cause it, and what you have tried to fix it. Similarly, if you are requesting that a template be modified, it helps to include a visual representation of what you want done and a link to a publicly-viewable page that has the problem in question. However, you should not be too detailed as many developers do not have the time to read paragraphs upon paragraphs of text.

4. Make your request guest-accessible, if applicable. For example, if you are having a template issue on a thread on your forums and you provide a link to that thread, make sure that guests can view it. Few users will register just to view the thread in question. At the bare minimum, provide any necessary login information necessary to view the thread, forum, or other page in question.
 
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