Add a 'TRADERS POST'

[Dave]

How about adding a 'Traders Post' to the off topic menu, that way any small companies or 'One Man Bands' selling specialist bushcraft equipment will not 'self advertise' in the community area, but will have an outlet to peddle their goods, [put up their website links etc] and also wont flood the members classifieds with tons of equipment?

Im turning into a capitalist! :shock:

This in turn will save me having to surf everywhere for the best deals!

 

[Tony]

I hear you Dave - It has got merit and we have considered it in depth. There are some difficulties though with doing it on the forum. We will be introducing something like that on the main site at sometime in the future but in the forum it is not going to happen. There is a blanket rule that dealers are not allowed to advertise on the forum. People can mention them, and if they are new to the forum they can say that they have a shop/sell kit etc but that's it.

On most other sites there are a couple of active dealers, we have a few on here and I have spoken with about 10 that want to take advantage of the forums by just selling, they are not interested in participating at all. This would create a battlefield that would spread out onto the forum and that can't happen. Hence the rule. Like I said though, the main site will host an area that can be used by the traders.

:-D

 

[Roving Rich]

How about alist of the people we buy from with some sort of rating.
Or a tally we chalk up everytime one of our users purchases from them. Just so we can see how useful they are as suppliers and which ones we are prefering to use. So they are not really advertising (though this may fund the up and coming website), more us going this is a useful shop.
Just a thought
Rich