just that simple, love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Okuma does not have to justify his costs or profit to anyone. He has provided a service to gunlovers as well as others. No matter whether he is making a living at it or not. Not our business. Point is are you willing to pay to continue using this site or not? If not go back to Facebook or Craigslist.
Simple. I will continue to support it.
I voted it would be a bad idea to charge $1.00 for each post but we all walk in a conveince store and pay one or almost $2.00 for a soft drink and think nothing of it on a Dailey basis and for the exposure we get with an ad and I have had a lot of success with my ads for years SO I would gladly pay $1.00 an ad to help keep you around. Think about everyone where could you have exposure to as many local people and good people as on the ODT, has anyone ever dealt with a fellow ODT’ER that wasn’t someone you wound up trusting and did repeat business with.In an effort to get away from outside advertising (and to stay afloat) I'm having to consider some very major changes to how the site raises money. In the past I've relied very heavily on outside ad networks to supply our ads to us, but in the last year the landscape has changed and a lot of gun forums are having a very rough go of it, including us.
One idea I am seriously considering is charging $1 a month to post ads in the classifieds for non-supporters and leave it free for supporters.
So for $1 a month you could post 5 listings per category per day (Just like it is now). Would also offer it for $10 a year if you didn't want to become a supporter and just wanted the classifieds, which would make it an even cheaper $0.83 per month.
Do you think this would kill the site? My opinion has always been that charging money would kill the site, but I feel like $1 a month for non-supporters is cheap enough that people wouldn't leave over it. If this change was enacted and we didn't lose any traffic I would be able to shut off outside ads. (which would be amazing and make the site run faster, we would never have malware or popups again and could remove all outside ad tracking)
I'd love to hear everyone's opinions, especially non-supporters. Any posts that "supporter shame" anyone will be removed to keep this on topic.
Thanks!
... let's see your tax return!!! 
