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Please Vote - Considering Major Changes for Classifeds

Would charging non-supporters $1 a month to post in the classifieds hurt the site?

  • Yes, charging $1 a month would hurt the site and is a bad idea.

    Votes: 713 54.5%
  • No, $1 is cheap enough to not lose people over it.

    Votes: 596 45.5%

  • Total voters
    1,309
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Looks like the solution is simple. ........ If everyone that has said that they would pay more, would pay more, then the ODT is on its way to being where it needs to be...... ........
 
My second observation, I didn't realize until reading this thread that there was an option to pay for a different membership type. Being an IT guy I realize this sort of thing is time consuming and in the spirit of fairness you should be paid so I'll become a supporter officially. I think though as part of the small rolling ads that do exist here you should be running an ODT membership ad to get some visibility to the supporter option as I for one had no clue it existed and would have been most happy to support the awesome ODT site.

This. It wasn’t until this thread that I realized the same thing. Next pay period and I’ll be becoming a supporter as well.
 
... My position is a little hard to understand, I get it. I mean it's only a dollar. ... For me it's the principle of the thing, not the dollar of the thing. I know it seems a strange position to take, but it's just where I'm at on this. ...

Reminds me of Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs." He didn't tip waitresses. Ever. On principle.

*** Warning-- Language. NSFW. This is an R-rated movie scene ***

 
It turns a lot of people off, and the site suffers because it's reputation of being a good place to get good deals, has become a place to go and pay more than retail for used guns.

I don't care what argument you make, that isn't good for the site and it doesn't make it better.
Yeah, when I get catalogs from mail-order places that charge full MSRP for their merchandise, I throw them away without a glance. If ODT's classified section only rarely had good deals, and had a lot of overpriced stuff or junk I wouldn't want at any price, I would not even bother browsing any of the ads in any part of the classifieds.
Good deals = more traffic here, more people with positive feelings about ODT and will recommend it to friends.
Few or NO good deals here = people browse for a few minutes and leave, and don't come back.
At least not for buy/sell/trade purposes. They might come back to talk gun control, politics, caliber debates, best round for hunting X animal in Y terrain from Z distance...
 
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