Please post all suggestions related to dispenser.tf here.

1. http://dispenser.tf/search/ - Add text box to filter by item name.
2. Button - "Create price list for my store" - to simplify copying/pasting our items for places like reddit.com/r/tf2trade
3. Make it more obvious how long the line is for a queue. For example, when I am waiting to deposit metal or purchase from a bot that already has a customer, it says "You are in queue, please wait" or something like that on the bottom right of the screen. However, that disappears quickly, and then I have no idea how long the queue really is. It could be 5 minutes, 30 seconds, I don't know..

I really like this site, and want it to succeed. I paid for VIP, but even I realize this is not going to support the site long-term. It probably pays for a year of power bills, some dev time, and an account upgrade ($5) for one bot.. so as much as I hate to do it - can I suggest you charge a transaction fee to sustain the site?

If you charged a flat 5% transaction fee for everyone, then you could sell the surplus and hopefully generate enough revenue to continue the site. Otherwise, what happens when you sell a lot of VIP? You will have to maintain a large number of bots and pay the power bills / machine costs associated with it, indefinitely. It's not a long-term sustainable model. And I would rather you collect a little fee so your costs are paid.

1. Sometimes the credit bot is full but I want to deposit metal. It'd be nice to be able to "flag" refined as "ready for deposit" and then when there is free space in your banking bots, they check the list, remove metal from the user(s), and credit the account. That way, your users don't have to constantly check the bank vault bots to see if they're available, and you have an instant supply of metal when you need/want it.

2. Or, similar to that, a "user preference" that says: "I want to maintain XX credit if possible at all times." With XX being the number the user wants to maintain as credit. This would be nice because right now, I have to do this:

a. sell item
b. withdraw metal from sales bot to me.
c. deposit metal from me to bank bot.
d. credit applied

But in my pawn shop, I buy items from customers using credit as well. So whenever my balance is 0, I can lose sales. It would be nice if we could auto-deposit up to XX metal if we have it in our inventory and you have the space/need it. It would speed up the process for users, and ensure they always have credit (whenever possible) for their sales to customers.


3. Or, similar to that, the ability to select metal in our bot and choose "Deposit to Bank Vault for Credit" and have your bots do the transfer directly.

We would definitely improve the search page and credit management, thanks for the suggestions. We are trying to pull out 'or' wishlist before that.

We fully understand the importance of self-sustaining so that this site could keep running and it will provide us the incentive of further development. But we still consider the current development 'incomplete'. That's why we won't be taking any 'fee' for now and hope to attract more people to test when it's free.

But taking transaction fee is no easy job here even if we want to - the current system makes us no way to take 'fee' for item to item trades. Of course it is always possible to take fee from credit transaction (or even from deposit/withdraw), but it is not fair to penalize the use of credit and it is easy to workaround the system by trading only items and not using any credit, which we cannot enforce and should not enforce.

Other bot trading sites break everything down to credit so that they could manage items and take fees much more easily, but we do not want that. It is not the most convenient system for trading.

However, I have thought about something that could be done to improve the system for self-sustaining, which we may impose in the future:

1. We no longer let people trade metal directly. They must convert metal to credit and we will take some fee for transaction that involves metal.
Drawback: Unable to take fee from item to item trade; people ask for keys / craft hats instead of metal.

2. We design useful features that make use of credit and we take fee for using that. (Such as making pawn shop a common feature but non-VIP users have to pay some transaction fee).

Adding the ability to choose a specific effect of an unusual in your wishlist would be helpful. It makes trading people in different timezone's far easier. Currently you can not specify this.

It's because the "usable only" feature is currently broken.

They can't really be the same since the ad has taken some width of the screen.
I guess It won't look too weird as people could only see one of the version..they cannot really compare the difference. :P