What will Slate's Accessories Marketplace Portal be like?

[E90400K]

And how does that change the need for a website to sell products?

Lol. It doesn't.

 

[Letas]

It turns the mere need for a website to sell products into an opportunity to make the site a better experience that promotes engagement and sells more products.

Maybe make it something where people can surf around the site looking at what other people have created out of their Blank Slates to get creative ideas.... or something like that.

This is the goal of every digital marketing team for every company ever…. Why would a company be okay just selling products as a “need” as opposed to trying to sell more.

If companies weren’t trying to sell more, we wouldn’t have 2 day shipping, pictures and reviews on websites, dedicated support teams, etc

 

[AZFox]

This is the goal of every digital marketing team for every company ever…. Why would a company be okay just selling products as a “need” as opposed to trying to sell more.

If you knew the answer and it's so obvious then why did you ask the question?

Part of what differentiates Slate from other car companies is the unusual idea of selling a Blank Slate vehicle that buyers will accessorize according to their preferences, which doesn't need to be done all at once.

Part of that new paradigm will be the Accessories Marketplace site.

The paradigm shift isn't Earth-shatteringly unique but it is indeed unique because accessorizing a Slate will be an ongoing act of creation and the site can be constructed in a manner that will help the creative juices flow.

The question the thread asks is "What will Slate's Accessories Marketplace Portal be like?".

The thread's original post was plucked from a thread about radio User eXperience that verged into web user experience. That begged the thread's title question.

IMHO Peter Faricy is someone who has expertise necessary to create and manage a digital development team that can create an Accessories Marketplace that is DIFFERENT from others and BETTER for both buyers and sellers alike.

The question is:
How could Slates Accessories Marketplace site be better than other parts and accessories sites? How would a site that helps people enjoy customizing and personalizing their Slates accomplish that in an outstanding way?

 

[AZFox]

@E90400K and @Letas,

You two have for some reason decided to be Skunks At The Picnic and troll this thread with as many discouraging posts as possible.

Your points have been made. Please knock it off.

 

[KevinRS]

The question is:
How could Slates Accessories Marketplace site be better than other parts and accessories sites? How would a site that helps people enjoy customizing and personalizing their Slates accomplish that in an outstanding way?

I think the plan is for a big part of that to be the maker section of the site. You can put into it what your current build is, and in a click see what it would look like with each of hundreds of additional accessories, from Slate and 3rd parties, then go to the checkout.

What hundreds of accessories?
By launch I expect lots of seat cover options, different colors and materials, heated and not, different console options, cupholders, different phone mounts, more options everywhere.

 

[E90400K]

@E90400K and @Letas,

You two have for some reason decided to be Skunks At The Picnic and troll this thread with as many discouraging posts as possible.

Your points have been made. Please knock it off.

OMG, I'm monumentally scared now.

 

[E90400K]

Seriously though, my posts have not been discouraging at all. All I've said (and proven) is development of the Slate parts site is not a monumental task because it has all been done before.

In fact, to the contrary, my posts are encouraging since its been shown other manufacturers have already done it.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

@E90400K and @Letas,

You two have for some reason decided to be Skunks At The Picnic and troll this thread with as many discouraging posts as possible.

Your points have been made. Please knock it off.

Standard AZFox response when someone doesn't agree with all their points - suppress other's opinions.

 

[Letas]

@E90400K and @Letas,

You two have for some reason decided to be Skunks At The Picnic and troll this thread with as many discouraging posts as possible.

Your points have been made. Please knock it off.

“Hey man I’m trying to start a lemonade stand, I’m super excited!”
“Awesome here are a few things past lemonade stand owners have done that they found success in”
“STOP DISCOURAGING ME, I AM SHIFTING THE PARADIGM”

Seriously man, neither of us has been the slightest bit discouraging. We are all here to follow Slate’s progress, because they are breaking the mold in many ways.

Selling on a website is not a paradigm shift. It’s how business operates in 2026. I’ve got full confidence in Slate to release a functional website, and I really don’t see any way it will be a “monumental challenge” in the grand scheme.

 

[AZFox]

Standard AZFox response when someone doesn't agree with all their points - suppress other's opinions.

Butthurt much?

If calling out trolling behavior is "suppressing others opinions", then I suppose so.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Butthurt much?

Really? Is that how you want to portray yourself here on this forum?

You apparently can't help yourself:

I've never done that and don't plan on ever doing it.

Thanks for demonstrating my point.

If calling out trolling behavior is "suppressing others opinions", then I suppose so.

It's not trolling behavior, it's you interpreting others opinions as damaging you in some psychotic hallucination.

Your posting an AI Slop image of a 3-legged furry holding down someone you disagree with is trolling. Then you are surprised at the reaction.

Is this your forum? Are you a moderator or administrator here to determine how others participate, post and conduct themselves?

Just give yourself a rest and let others have their opinion.

 

[AZFox]

It's not trolling behavior

Sure it is. Here's one example, plucked pretty much at random.

I still can't really tell if your argument is they need to build the entire front end from scratch, the entire front end AND back end, or something else....

It the rhetorical discourse this is called a red red herring. It's deliberately not about the topic of "what would the Marketplace site be like?".

Here's another one.

And I'll add, which I've said before in the CEO thread, why was a change required at the C-Suite position to implement an e-commerce site for Slate.

Thread pollution.

The most recent one is a straw man.

Selling on a website is not a paradigm shift. It’s how business operates in 2026. I’ve got full confidence in Slate to release a functional website, and I really don’t see any way it will be a “monumental challenge” in the grand scheme.

Slate Auto's approach where you buy a Blank Slate directly from them and then customize and personalize your ride with accessories is the paradigm shift. "Selling on a website" isn't a paradigm shift, but nobody said it was.

Here's what I actually said:

Part of what differentiates Slate from other car companies is the unusual idea of selling a Blank Slate vehicle that buyers will accessorize according to their preferences, which doesn't need to be done all at once.

Part of that new paradigm will be the Accessories Marketplace site.

What I'm trying to get across is that the site needs to work completely differently than the site where @E90400K buys his BMW parts because it will essentially be a community hub with interactive features, not just a parts depot.

When someone posts a thread that says there are the several EVs you can get for less than the Slate's price I simply ask them to list those EVs and their prices. Is that "suppressing other's opinions" or is it just calling out BS?

In your case, @Tom Sawyer, in the past you did some hallucinating of contradictions that doesn't exist, so I challenged you to find one, which isn't possible, so now you're lashing out.

How about trying this?: Instead of posting ad hominem attacks post an idea about how Slates Accessories Marketplace site could be really cool.