Selling to other members

[lenser]

I have a suggestion that I would like both the moderators and the membership to chime in on.

I occasionally offer items to the membership that are surplus to me. To have this confined to a "for sale" section, completely separate from all the rest of the forums, seems totally counterproductive since many people may not know that this section exists or how to find it, or think to look on more than an occasional visit. (I know it seems obvious where it is on the thread list, but when I first joined, it took me several trips over a couple of weeks before I finally noticed it, and I was looking.)

I am not asking this is just a selfish way. I'm satisfied that many other sellers and buyers would prefer a more accessable way to find each other. After all, sometimes we don't really know we want something until we bump into it by happy accident.

Why not give everyone, buyers and sellers alike, total access in an easy way by having this section be an automatic part of the main forum?

All thoughts and opinions are very welcome.

Thanks

Tim

[Brian Ellis]

Not no but hell no.

[Ron Marshall]

No, thank-you.

[dsphotog]

It was open, 'till spammers from hell kept flooding the for sale sect. with their crappy sport shoe & fake Rollex watch Phishing posts.
The 30 day membership requirement seems to work ok.

[EuGene Smith]

I have enough problems with those spammers on my e-mail site and certainly don't want to roll out the red carpet for them on the LF Forum. It might be a bit of extra work to get to the FS/WTB marketplace, but the benefit far outweighs any problems .

EuGene

[Juergen Sattler]

NO, No , No, please no! Why would this make sense?

[jim kitchen]

No, no, no... !

Another door would be left open.

jim k

[David A. Goldfarb]

For many years this forum had no buying and selling at all. A separate section for sales is already enough commerce in the LF forum for my taste.

[Merg Ross]

NO, bad idea!

[Glenn Thoreson]

No! I think it works just fine the way it is. I visit it every day and never had a problem finding it.