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BradfordBenn said:I would dislike to see advertisements in the forums and on the "members" section of the website. I figure I am paying for the forum and the site with my membership dues so that I do not have to see advertisements. I have no problem with a fleamarket section for members but I would not like to see commercial enterprises.
It is the same reason I started listening to XM almost exclusively, cause I don't want commercials I want enjoyment.
Rich said:It would be nice if every ad expired in 5 or 10 days. There would be no need to try to figure out what has been sold, and when, just let the ads expire and it is up to the seller to repost their advertisement. 90 days (in advrider) is way too long, it seems one would be sifting through lots of garbage, maybe lots of it that is already sold, to find what you are looking for.
Just a thought.
cruisin said:The gang over on the BMW Sprort Touring web site seem to have a pretty good system set up that works for their 7000+ registered users.
BMW Sport Touring Clssifieds give 'em a looksee they run the site very well over there.
username said:brad - whats the rationale behind only allowing items to be listed here, and not on other forums/in the paper?
i put this icon in just cause i wanted to use it. i like it.
Rich said:It would be nice if every ad expired in 5 or 10 days. There would be no need to try to figure out what has been sold, and when, just let the ads expire and it is up to the seller to repost their advertisement. 90 days (in advrider) is way too long, it seems one would be sifting through lots of garbage, maybe lots of it that is already sold, to find what you are looking for.
Just a thought.
username said:which gives me an idea that i think visian had - ways to drive traffic to the site. i think im about to have a good idea, that might lead me to agree with brad too... (which is good, because sucking up to the true ruler is essential...) what if i listed my bike here at MOA, and there was a "standard" template for selling a bike. one big photo. four small photos. some text-y description below it. contact info. then i went out to advrider, ibmwr, my local paper, and i say, 'bike for sale, goto moa.org/bikes/1234 and boom it drives traffic to the site. people see my bike for sale, and they say, 'hey, what's this bmw club? this looks cool. wow, they have swag here!' and then perhaps they join.
maybe i sound like a dot com nut from 1998...i dunno.
potential problem - the idea was to have the for sale section in the members only area? i think it should be stuff for sale BY members, but FOR anyone. so my non-bmw club next door neighbor could see the bike/whatever for sale.
this one is good too. i guess tina is doing this? good job with the smilies.
BradfordBenn said:I like that solution, all roads point to one place. That would make me happyish. I do like your point about having it available for non members to view but not post advertisements.
M. Cohen said:One of the benefits of the ON Flea Market is that when I place an ad I'm pretty sure the calls I get will be from other members--and we're a pretty trustworthy bunch. I've often sent goods to other members before I received the money and haven't had a problem.
I would never do that with ebay. And I would have to be much more careful and screen callers if the online marketplace were open for public view.
Michael
BradfordBenn said:Perhaps it could be an option as to whether or not a listing is viewable by non members? It's just software
KBasa said:It's an easy thing to set at a forum level, but not at the post level.
If we used our current forum software to manage this, we could use the same permissions we have here: registered members can post, non members can look, but not post.
I think the points made earlier about a standard template are well taken, though I'm not sure how we'd integrate that into this software package. We've got something coming with photo hosting, so we should be able to get folks some help with that as well, which will make the ads that much more useful.