Please Vote - Considering Major Changes for Classifeds

[Okuma]

Is that a $1 for any post or just ones that list something for sale? Was a supported way back when I joined, doesn't hurt to be a supported again.

It would be only $1 to list items in the classifieds for a whole month, free for supporters. Normal posts are unaffected.

 

[Old Patriot]

Don't matter now, back to be a supporter. Rock on!!!

 

[lostchild]

IN for tacos

Sadly, no tacos choice on poll.

 

[BDR1]

PayPal?

Never done that either...guess I'm too old school

 

[payneed]

If @Paynefree puts this on his new vette can he have ads free for a year?

 

[BIKER13]

Never done that either...guess I'm too old school

send a check

 

[Bradshaw]

I'd pay an extra $5.00 a month to allow price bashing on some of the peckerwoods that post on here. Just sayin

 

[My name is Homer]

A few pages back someone said "Do whatever you have to do to save this site", I agree with that. Over the last 10 years I have lived in 3 states, none of them have a forum and site like this one still running. Take sh@#$y advertisements or charge a small fee, please for the love of God keep ODT going.

 

[Stampede]

If someone is spamming up the place or charging outrageous prices for something, why shouldn't established members be allowed to point it out? Maybe part of the problem of the prices here usually exceeding retail, is BECAUSE so many listings are out of whack and nobody is allowed to point it out?

Maybe if there was some "constructive criticism" on the matter, people would keep the prices in check. But if a new person comes here and wants to sell his "low round count Glock" and he does a quick search and sees that most of them are "selling" for $500-$600, maybe that is why he feels his is worth that and should be listed as such? And with nobody allowed to publicly correct him, our policy of silence on the matter might actually be contributing to the problem?

But I would also consider some policy changes to go along with it, to help keep prices in line... Won't make sense for people to pay money to come and buy Glocks at $150 over retail because someone took a soldering iron to the grip and considers it "custom"...

Shouldn't the classifieds "self police" themselves? Meaning if their item does not sell quickly, they would reduce the price to a point where they start getting PMs about it? I have no desire to comment on someone else's asking price - a lot of them say "or best offer" or something similar anyway.

Who decides what the reasonable price is? Is it what a fan of that model would consider is fair or what a owner of another brand would say? Shouldn't the market decide what's fair or not?

 

[SirBannedAlot]

Just for the record, people complaining about used gun prices on here. Solution for that is don't buy them.
Also I have bought several NIB guns with all paperwork, etc. on here cheaper than I could elsewhere. No taxes, shipping or transfer fees.
Bought a new Ruger Precision Rifle in the box here two weeks ago with 1100 rounds of ammo cheaper than I have seen for used ones. Good deals do happen here, you just have to be quick.
I don't buy or sell a lot but when I do, I prefer ODT.

There is the 1 in 100 that is an actual deal. Most are not. And we complain, because the forum gets clogged up with hundreds of people selling their used guns over retail because it has an extra $100 of sentimental value to them, which makes a lot of us give up skimming through trying to find the one deal that doesn't suck.

I absolutely believe that while you are right, we can just not buy them at inflated prices... it DOES have an impact on traffic here, as a lot of people simply move on or go to the LGS store because more often than not, the LGS is the cheaper option...

Nobody is forced to buy those overpriced used guns, but at the same time, if the goal is to keep the site viable...