Before I explain what the Vizzed Market is, I want to quickly put into perspective just how much anticipation has gone into this. The current (now previous) item shop was terribly outdated and needed to be replaced badly but I just never got around to replacing it. For more than 5 years I've been wanting to recreate the Item Shop but it was too big of a project to tackle and with so many other projects getting in the way, I didn't get around to beginning this until earlier this month. So you can imagine just how exciting it was when I finally got around to working on it and it was even more exciting to finally have it ready in a beta form.

To take things a little further, I've invested $1000s into game codes for nearly 2 years now just for the purpose of this Vizzed Market. Back when the site was profiting a lot better than it is now, I'd invest a few hundred dollars into buying steam game codes and other game codes any time I'd see huge deals or great bundles. I now have 10,000+ game codes for 2000+ games that I plan to add to the Vizzed Market over the course of 3-4 weeks so be sure to check out the collection of digital codes every day so that you don't miss out on something you might want. It's going to be a long task of getting all of those codes added, especially since I also have to continue investing time into finishing up the Vizzed Market, but I think these things will really increase the value of Viz currency and will encourage users to submit more content to the site in order to get the Viz for the digital codes and the other various site items in the Vizzed Market.

I'm not sure how long until it's out of beta but I'm expecting 2 weeks. There's still a lot of features that I want to add as I'll mention below. Finishing this will also make me a step closer to finally starting work on a Battle Arena since the Battle Arena would need a Marketplace like the one I've built.

Anyways, here's the link to the Vizzed Market:
https://www.vizzed.com/market/

A link to it can also be found on just about every page of the site at the top. Now time to go over all of the current features of the Vizzed Market and all of the future features.


Digital Items
You can now buy and sell digital items for Viz. When you go to buy a digital item, the code will be sent to you instantly! You can also sell codes for Viz with the ability to adjust the price to whatever you want (at the moment, only Vizzed Elite users and users who own the Beta Test Ticket item can sell digital codes).


Vizzed Items
This isn't necessarily a new concept to Vizzed but it has been greatly enhanced. The Vizzed items are items that are either for fun or unlock features on Vizzed (which are the Key items). You're no longer limited to how many Vizzed items you can own and you can also now resell the ones that you do own. I've got lots of plans for new site items which I'll go over down below.


Your Inventory
This is a page that lets you sort through all of the Vizzed items that you own. From this page you can either sell your items back to the site for 75% of your Viz back or you can sell them in the Vizzed Market.


Your Codes
This is a collection of all the codes that you've purchased. When you've purchased a code, you have to click to view it before you can see it. Once you've done this, it'll no longer have the "verified" label if you ever try to go and resell it. Basically the verified label is used when a verified seller sells a code. It lets users know that the code is legit and works.


Order History
You can get a complete list of all the items you've purchased from the Vizzed Market with full details.


Future Items
Here's a list of upcoming Vizzed items:
-Ad Blocker: It blocks all of the ads on the site (I know you can just use an ad block but I'm going to eventually make it so that users can't play games on the site if they have ads on Vizzed blocked since ad blockers are killing the site's revenue which is ultimately slowly killing the site).
-Anonymous Browsing: This item would let a user browse the site anonymously making it impossible for anyone to see what they're doing on the site. The only people who would be able to see are users of your friends list and staff members.
-In the distant future, I plan to add more "fun" items
-Lots of other items that I don't have time to talk about at the moment


Future Features
-Ability to sell real items
-Ability to buy and sell items using real money
-Ability to do trades
-A feedback system similar to ebay so that users can see who is legit to deal with and who to avoid
-Information about each individual Vizzed item when clicked
-Battle Items will increase your stats again (currently do not)
-Ability to choose which items to equip (for stats purposes and future battle arena)
-Ability to auction items
-Buy and Sell services
-More search and filter features
-A wishlist that notifies you when someone adds a code to a game you want
-Game pages show when someone has listings for sale for it
-Allow users to sell something from a game's page
-A ton more features that I'm forgetting or don't have time to go over


Need to earn some Viz?
There are many ways to earn Viz. You earn Viz by reviewing games, submitting game guides, submitting videos, submitting screenshots, submitting articles, etc. You can find a full list of ways to earn Viz here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=91123


I'm very excited about this feature and I really hope everyone else is as well. It still has a lot of work that has yet to be done but it's only a little more than half way finished. If anyone notices any issues or problems, be sure to let me know right away. If you have any feedback or ideas, I'd love to hear them.

This is honestly a great news! I've been waiting for the vizzed market to be revamped for so long so I'm really happy it's finally happening. I hope many users would regularly use it; I know I will.

How about adding a buy and sell for services like making digital goods, art, ebook( that the users have written themselves in pdf or epub format), music, simple website design, programming project stuff etc?

Juliet : Buying and Selling services I think is a fantastic idea. I'll go ahead and add it to the list of future features.

This is fantastic! Now all the more reason to come to Vizzed more!!! (As if there isn't enough already!?) I am badly in need of a code for Resident Evil 5 Gold edition (the pack on steam that will unlock the DLC pack as well, not just the base game) on Steam, and while I don't have a lot of Viz now (having just recently bought a Playstation item) I would save up Viz slowly and do almost anything for it. You are so awesome for incorperating this feature.

One thing that has been bothering me is why is Viz considered worth this amount of stuff. Does Viz like pay money to you or something or do some people stay on here so long that it is just as valuable as actual currency.

How can 30,000+ Viz be worth Playstation code cards versus actual money buying it and using the code then. Forgive me if this was mentioned early Vizzed history, I just have been bothered by it.

Great new feature! Is this real or is my sleep deprived mind hallucinating?

This could quite possibly be the greatest thing to happen to the site in my time being here. A full on market place....

For future reference, on the subject of buying and selling real items for real money, you could make it like on eBay and Amazon where you get a percentage of the money, but undercut both to promote using the system. Something like 6% per listing. Once you get the price guide updating again, that'll help give people an idea of the going rates.

EDIT: Small issue... There could be some confusion about which digital codes have been redeemed or not in the user's inventory and in turn could cause unintentional selling of used codes.... Is there any way you could make it where the redeemed codes are separated from the valid ones?

Also, you typo'd inventory in your original post.

Impulse buying made me spend half my Viz

Well played David, well played :V

But in all seriousness, this is the best thing ever. I'm gonna check it all the time just to see if there's anything cool, and I'll also be working on getting more Viz so I can buy more

This is the best

this is pretty awesome if you ask me. i have one worry about some of the game due to region lock or not released in other counties

It's very nice to see the revamped Item Shop up and going. It was very much needed, because the last one lacked a lot of content.

One thing that people should take into account when trying to sell digital items would be to note if the codes are region locked or not. Let's not forget that we have people of all continents hanging out around here, so before making any transactions it would be nice if people added whether or not people of foreign countries or continents can redeem such items as well. We can always PM the seller, but adding this to the item description will make the process a bit faster.

If people starts to value Viz a bit more, I may find a use for the Market Store when it comes to Playstation games or codes, as long as they're PAL or region free for what I've mentioned above.

I know I haven't been the most supportive of the newest features to the site, but I love this one. By expanding the item shop to a market allows users to buy things they may never have thought of buying and is really easy to do so. This should help with user communication between staff such as myself and the people who don't really come on the forums but want to buy games and such.

And like Yoshirulez impulse buying spent half my Viz (but I love what I bought so much David thank you ;-.

This is probably one of the coolest additions to vizzed ever!I can't wait to see how this pans out over the next few weeks.
One thing's for sure, my Viz wallet is going to get really empty.

Cool David I just got stream and I'm new it. So this would be cool to spend some vizzed points for stream. This will always be my number 1 site for any games  Sure I haven't really played a lot lately but this will always be my favorite site and I will always tell my friends about. Thank you for making such a amazing site.

I've been waiting for some kind of updates to the market for a while now, and this just took an unexpected turn! I will be watching the market closely to see what kind of updates it will brings. 100k Viz is so going down into the drain soon, haha.

I think David is on the right track with this update. I cannot wait for the battle arena.

This is the best new feature that's been added to the site since I became an active user nearly 2 years ago. I'm really happy that I'm no longer limited to how many items that I can own, because only being able to have limited amount of items was annoying.

The... the Steam codes that I can buy with Viz are amazing ;-;. I was originally planning on getting a 50 dollar steam gift card code for 1 million Viz (would have taken forever to get to) but now I can just check out what's new in the store :3. And get my Viz worth :p. I really hope and wish that this feature encourages people to try to get more Viz to get games . And if people are actively selling game codes then I'll always have a use for Viz. This is a feature that I did not expect, but I love it already~

I'm mainly just glad the old shop is gone since it was too easy to accidentally sell something like your precious PSX item that you'd been saving up for ages to get...
Also excited for the digital shop! I've had a ton of Viz saved up for a while now, and I didn't really know what to do with it, so this is great news!

Game codes... items... perks... all being LEGITIMATELY sold by OTHER PEOPLE?! And for DIGITAL CURRENCY?!

Count me in!

... I just bought a real (digital) game for free digital moneys... I love this site...

This site is the best, and many, many thanks to David and staff. You guys rock.

Davideo7 :
   Good job man, you finally made a shop that surpasses the old one. I honestly believe this is a more manageable shop than the last one due to having more options and ideas as well. I love the idea of auctioning and buying game codes there, because it is tedious enough just TO GET TO AN AUCTION/SHOP FORUM TO BUY SOMETHING, THANK YOU DAVID! 
   Also, one idea for the "fun" items, is to add a custom or fake rank or title, just to fool your friends, or to feel good about yourself. (Just to make things easier, it can't be a rank such as Member, Trusted Member, etc.)

I spent half of my Viz impulse buying Dark Souls.... Not only have I wanted it for a while now to see what all the buzz was about back when it came out, but I finally found the motivation to become active on the boards. Best gaming site ever.