What’s everyone’s thoughts on subscriptions? Keep it the same as before?
Someone will need to remind me what the $1/mo subscriptions was about. I was paying $36 annually to be able to post in the guns marketplace. What should you need to pay for and what should you be able to do for free? I’d like to keep it free to see most of the categories. I’m open to ideas.
I’d also like to grow the user base before engaging in subscriptions. Once we know this site has enough traction I can turn it on. It’s already setup to take online payments I just have to define the product/subscriptions. Again, I’d rather wait until we have a good amount of users before doing that. Besides I’d like to setup a LLC for this if we get there.
Great Idea. You dont want people coming here just for the free marketplace so we who care think that paying you for that service would be a welcome addition at some point. I like dealing with people I know so getting some new and old folks on here would be first.
Like Ant says…“Each one reach one”.
After some discussion with those at the meetup today I think we will attempt to roll with voluntary contributions. There seems to be enough support from those such as Kevin and others regardless if they are selling anything that find having a forum to be a valuable resource for the community.
Give me a few days to think about it and figure out how to handle sellers as this would mean anyone would be free to post. Thinking to just restrict it to Trust Level 2 and higher to post but anyone can reply.
I can change these thresholds but the default are currently:
Get to trust level 2 by…
I was discussing this with another previous member yesterday and we agree that it would be better to try to keep the entire site free. Support will be completely voluntary. Considering levels like bronze/silver/gold/platinum with corresponding badges that indicate the support level.
That gets complicated.
Example, now the list price is $1.00 but shipping is $500
or the final price was negotiated over the phone, $75 was taken off the $100 price (which never actually happened)
Agreed not trying to complicate things. We are not Gunbroker here, these are just personal ads that may result in a face to face transaction.
Also trying to keep the number of transactions as low as possible as that attributes to the overall site costs. The credit card company is charging 2.9% +.30/transaction. This is partly why I’d rather annual support contributions at a larger per charge than lots of $1 charges as the fees would be insane.
I think asking for annual dues for those that post sales is not at all unreasonable. It also keeps the lurkers from posting here with no intentions of selling. We’ve seen our share of posters just trolling and deals just never completing after an agreed price. If they want to contribute just to fish so be it.
What should be the policy on this buyer or seller? Failing to complete an agreed deal?
A fraudster will be a fraudster and even if charging for the sell page they could use a fraudulent payment to post on there. By time I get the chargeback it may already be too late.
So I’d still like to fund this just on the voluntary support of members and private supporters.