Announcing the Pinside Marketwatch (v2)!

It's been a while, but after some painstaking hours of coding, debugging and configuring mail servers I have brought the Pinside Marketwatch back from the dead!

The Pinside Marketwatch is basically a notification system that sends you weekly, twice-weekly or daily PM's, listing new games on our marketplace. It only includes your wishlist games, to keep things nice and lean and easy to digest.

My first notification looked like this! Ain't she a beauty?

Marketwatch PM's, like all other PM's, can be forwarded to your e-mail address. To have all PM's forwarded to your e-mail simply make sure the "PM messages" checkbox is checked (in the E-mail notifications section on that same settings page). and of course make sure you e-mail address is current and that Pinside e-mails ([email protected]) are not going to your spam box.

Due to technical limitations and the problems involved with sending out thousands of e-mails every day, the Marketwatch was disabled a long while ago. But with out new server capacities and the updated PM system, I'm gonna give this another shot. Let's see how it goes!

What do you need to do to receive Marketwatch notifications?

1. Go to your account settings and scroll down to the Marketwatch section.
2. Select one of the frequencies (weekly, twice-weekly or daily*)
3. Optionally choose the ASAP mode*, which will make you receive a PM immediately after a game is added to the marketplace (never miss out on great deals again!).

Marketwatch settings

*Whoah, wait a second! What are those red boxes? Pinside+?
Daily and ASAP notifications are "+ features". These are features targeted specifically towards the heavy users of the site. While I strive to keep Pinside free for all, features that require more resources, such as this one, will be added under the + flag. Read more about + on our donations page!

When?
The system is now online. The schedule is as follows:
- Daily Marketwatch PM's are sent out every day (duh) at ~21:00 (9PM) CET.
- Twice-weekly Marketwatch PM's are sent out Tuesdays and Fridays at ~22:00 (10PM) CET.
- Weekly Marketwatch PM's are sent out Fridays at ~23:00 (11PM) CET.
- ASAP notifications... Well... As Soon As (the ad is) Posted!

To find out what CET is, google it!

Bugs? Suggestions? Let me know!

#2 8 years ago

CJJ

nman

Pinside+ Frequent

9y 78,800 1,107

You rock. Donation incoming.

#3 8 years ago

JMS

swampfire

Pinside+ Addict

11y 168K 13,594 48

Done, thanks for getting me off the dime (so to speak).

#4 8 years ago

JDS

swinks

Swinks Pinball

12y 136K 10,555

Hi Robin

just got a notification, is there a way to turn it on but just for your country as want to get notifications but not outside Australia if possible.

cheers

#5 8 years ago

PBC

Pinballerchef

Pinside member

New Windsor, MD

12y 79,300 2,860 10

This is a neat feature....I don't mind the updates letting me know about pins for sale on my wish list. I do think Robin is better at naming kids than pinside robots......I mean ""Marvin"

#6 8 years ago

HLT

herg

LED OCD

13y 110K 5,551

I sent a PM, but after I did, I realized it may affect others as well.

I have a monthly donation set up that totals more than the minimum $35 per year. Will this work for Pinside+, or does it require a one time donation over the minimum?

#7 8 years ago

XOT

Outlane-Avoider

Pinside member

14y 77,300 570 268

Quoted from swinks:
Hi Robin
just got a notification, is there a way to turn it on but just for your country as want to get notifications but not outside Australia if possible.
cheers

Yes, I would appreciate being able to just receive notifications of games that are in my country (UK) as well.

#8 8 years ago

MJH

TimeBandit

redshiftLED.com.au

Sydney, Oz

10y 159K 5,511 3 65

Quoted from Pinballerchef:
I do think Robin is better at naming kids than pinside robots......I mean ""Marvin"

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference I would say.

#9 8 years ago

BBF

Bigbossfan

Pinside member

Oromocto, NB

10y 56,300 1,012 3 18

Awesome feature! Thanks Robin!!

#10 8 years ago

boustrophedonic

Pinside+ Frequent

Grafton, WI

10y 85,800 601

Quoted from herg:
I have a monthly donation set up that totals more than the minimum $35 per year. Will this work for Pinside+, or does it require a one time donation over the minimum?

Or how about those who just gave 25 bucks last month? Any chance for a catch-up donation, or does it require dropping another $35?

#11 8 years ago

JCD

dmbjunky

Pinside member

Odon, IN

8y 96,400 6,791 91

I did my daily pinside checkup and found a message in my box. It was the market watch. Neat feature.

There are some good suggestions here like the cumulative donation that adds up to $35 and the ability to adjust the market watch by distance and maybe get rid of parts or machines for certain titles.

#12 8 years ago

TEO

Teo76

Pinside+ Frequent

Sesto Calende

10y 66,900 203 61 8

#13 8 years ago

RVM

robin

Country selection is a great suggestion. Or, even fancier, it could be radius based.

Cumulative donations makes sense, but a bit hard to implement from a technical viewpoint. If you donated in the past 6 months, contact me with your details (paypal transaction ID would really help) and we'll work something out.

If you are a weekly/monthly supporter, please contact me as well. Not all recurring donators were set to plus. Again, due to technical limitations. I have to tag those subscribers manually.

You can reach me via PM!

#14 8 years ago

JSN

jfesler

Pinside member

9y 92,050 1,793 18 11

+1 for radius. I for one only really look for "within driving distance".

#15 8 years ago

???

TheBrewhouse

Pinside member

9y 66,800 244

Happy to donate for the plus features for a great site.

#16 8 years ago

RVM

robin

Okay, the Marketwatch has been running for a few days now. Hope you all like it so far.

So far I have three things on my list:
- Improve design of tables, the list of ads looks terrible on mobile.
- Add some kind of geographic limiting option so you only get notifications for ads in your area.
- Group Marketwatch notifications in PM system, get them all grouped in one PM thread

Any other ideas? Thoughts? Things to improve?

#17 8 years ago

JMS

swampfire

Pinside+ Addict

11y 168K 13,594 48

I would prefer NOT to receive any notifications via PM; I only want to receive email. Ideally, I'd love to get an SMS when a new ad appears matching my search.

#18 8 years ago

FAV

bemmett

Pinside+ Addict

12y 127K 3,967 126 2

Quoted from swampfire:
I would prefer NOT to receive any notifications via PM; I only want to receive email.

Agreed, I prefer only an e-mail, not a PM

#19 8 years ago

MOF

mof

Mof Pinball

San Francisco, CA

11y 149K 13,299 25 94

Email notifications only please.
+ 1
Mof

#20 8 years ago

CJJ

nman

Pinside+ Frequent

9y 78,800 1,107

Geo-centric and email-only notifications are both awesome ideas.

I know it might be a real pain to implement but a two-tier wishlist system could potentially cut down on the email traffic too. Something like a "Wishlist" and "Saved games" or "Favorite games" or something like that. The tiers could have different settings for notification frequency (i.e. daily for "Wishlist" and weekly or even not at all for the others). That way, we could still keep games of tangential interests on some sort of list, but without having to receive notifications about them (or just getting them less frequently). Also, it would just be a nice feature to have

#21 8 years ago

MDH

lurch

Pinside member

Leesburg, VA

10y 64,300 1,301 2

Quoted from swampfire:
I would prefer NOT to receive any notifications via PM; I only want to receive email. Ideally, I'd love to get an SMS when a new ad appears matching my search.

+1 Id like immediate notification.... Cause you gotta move fast or its gone!!!!

#22 8 years ago

DBC

danczaz

DBC Pinball

Hampshire, IL

10y 86,100 3,842 8

Well this made me update my wish list to the few I really want

#23 8 years ago

JRK

jrivelli

TrueColor Protectors

Milwaukie, OR

11y 89,650 4,625 10 20

I have notifications turned off for this and they still come. I eventually had to turn all pinside notices off and miss all the PMs now, oh well. Can't handle anymore emails

#24 8 years ago

NPS

refried

Pinside member

9y 29,400 53

Any way to limit this by distance? Would be a more useful feature if the machines are actually within reach.

#25 8 years ago

RVM

robin