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Originally Posted by StirCrazy
Personally I think the boars should start charging for "for sale posts" maybe have a 2 buck fee to post a small ad, $5 for large and then an additional 2 bucks for every picture. we are using the boards bandwidth and service for monetary gain maybe we should help pay the bills.
Steve
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I believe this is why the board went the route of sponsors. I think the amount of revenue that would be collected would be minimal at best when you can run ads for free on the online version of Buy & Sell, Craigslist other local boards.
Probably more the half the traffic generated on this board comes from the buy and sell forums, if you shunned that traffic away with user based fees I doubt the sponsors would continue their support for much longer, they are paying the fee's based on usage of the boards patrons.
I also have a hard time believing that if someone was going to sell frags (which a lot of people on the board do) they are going to pay $2 for an ad and another $2 for one image only to receive $10 minus the fees. Ontop of that it requires the board to add another layer of managment to handle the collection of money and support, once you agree to take someones money they will start complaining.