I think it would be nice to have a dedicated buy/sell forum on the site.
I think that would be great. I have a lot of stuff to sell...so I can buy more stuff!
My opinion:
A "for sale/buy" category would distract from the purpose of the FoRum.
It would attract those not really interested in the local racing scene but those more inclined to make a quick sale.
(Especially if it's a free ad)
Mix in boat brokers, commercial interests, scam artists, spam, price reductions, stale posts....
We don't want to burn-out our webmaster just yet ;D
There are other places on the web, free, where you can post, like sailingtexas.com...
http://www.sailingtexas.com/cboatsclassifieds.html (http://www.sailingtexas.com/cboatsclassifieds.html)
http://www.sailingtexas.com/cboats.html (http://www.sailingtexas.com/cboats.html)
Maybe I'm totally wrong on this (I can be convinced otherwise) but that's my 2 cents.
I agree with Chris K
On the other hand, you could restrict it to only GBCA members. This can easily be done with the use of a different usergroup on the forum for only GBCA members. Settings the permissions for that usergroup so only they could post in the classifieds area should prevent the spam.
I agree with Chris and Jim. We should encourage sailing and not saleing :)
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No
the classified could be easily monitored... I have several things laying around, older parts, like Kevin I'm sure... I'll bet that he won't use company name either if selling something... it's the whole, other person's treasure thing... I would rather have GBCA members have first dibs anyways...
cheers...
Scott
---I think those sites that Chris mentions are good but it would be great to have something strictly for the locals.
Quote from: ChrisK on July 02, 2009, 12:11:02 PM
My opinion:
A "for sale/buy" category would distract from the purpose of the FoRum.
It would attract those not really interested in the local racing scene but those more inclined to make a quick sale.
(Especially if it's a free ad)
Mix in boat brokers, commercial interests, scam artists, spam, price reductions, stale posts....
We don't want to burn-out our webmaster just yet ;D
There are other places on the web, free, where you can post, like sailingtexas.com...
http://www.sailingtexas.com/cboatsclassifieds.html (http://www.sailingtexas.com/cboatsclassifieds.html)
http://www.sailingtexas.com/cboats.html (http://www.sailingtexas.com/cboats.html)
Maybe I'm totally wrong on this (I can be convinced otherwise) but that's my 2 cents.