Die on its arse or not you would be advertising to an audience who would/should be interested in what you are selling and have some knowledge of the industry........or you could put it on ebay have some hopefuls bid on it, sale falls through, do it all again...... and in the end pay your ebay fees.
It makes me laugh that some people will throw their weight around and make other forum members look small and cheap for looking for a cheap vac/ pump/ anything to save a few bob but when someone mentions charges to sell a bit of kit they start to throw their toys around and are full of negativity!!!!!!!!
I doubt the forum runs for free by itself Jim, as i am sure you dont run your business that way.
Tony
Tony, not sure if you're aware but this isn't the only cleaning forum!! I certainly don't use all of them out there but have 7 in my favourites! No other forums charge their users to advertise their own second hand kit for sale, and I don't see that changing in the foreseeable future.
Charging for posts in the for sale section is stupid and ill-thought out. It just won't attract any significant business because people can get the same thing for free elsewhere (of course there will be some paid-for posts, by people who haven't got a clue and don't know any better. Really ethical that, bordering on a scam if you ask me.)
Unless this is an early April fools joke?
Let's keep dishing out the business lessons then....
Of course this forum doesn't run for free, but it doesn't exactly cost an arm and a leg to register a domain name and pay for server space. I'm not well up on hosting charges etc, maybe someone with some better knowledge on that could fill in the blanks, but this forum would need X amount of disk space and Y amount of bandwidth.... even if it cost £100 a month that's diddly squat.
You know those adverts you see at the top and bottom? Uhmmmmm well they probably cover the server costs plus a hefty amount more.... so where is the money going to from the good honest users who have to pay just for selling a wand for £50 or something? It's a scandal!
If the owner of this forum had the slightest bit of sense he'd integrate it more into his business and write off the cost against the increased revenue gained... now where have I seen that business model before?
Sorry for sitting on the fence earlier Colin, hopefully you can see which side I'm on now?
