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drw wrote:Agreed. :) That's part of the reason for this thread. The other reason is to figure out if such a thing would be useful anyway.

Right. I just wanted to be clear that I'm trying to poke holes in a constructive way. I think the site could be useful if done right. For example you want enough functionality for the person who is constantly trading different guns but it also has to be noob friendly enough to attract the person who wants to sell one gun. If you just cater to the hardcore horse traders, you're missing a lot of the market.

drw wrote:Example: imagine a feature where you can sign up to be alerted everytime someone comes from your state and posts a classified with the term "M1A" in the headline. You would get an email instantly. That'd be pretty cool.

Yes it would.

My question is, what do you plan to do differently to prevent the problems you see on other sites? (Dealers, Discussion)
Even something like craigslist ends up having discussion posts and there's no real way to block the determined dealers.
I'm not saying no but I think you need to spend enough time on design before starting building it to avoid all the flaws.

I also think any existing national board (like glocktalk) could make their existing classifieds much more useful by
1. requiring sellers to put their state code in the title and enforcing it by deleting posts that violate the rule and
2. allowing users to search the classifieds by state code (instead of having a 3 or 4 letter minimum search word)