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tahir

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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:31 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

It was also a good way to bring a little attention to this section, which seems to have worked.

Definitely

Bugs

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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:32 pm Post subject:
Keep your feathers on, I was just trying to help with the idea of clearing up the traders from the gumph. You know what you said before re moving useful threads from chat to a relevant forum once they'd run their course? That might be an idea, but Tahir's suggestion of a tech board is probably simpler. I'm just worried we wind up with too many boards to confuse people.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:34 pm Post subject:
Feathers firmly on. The problem wiht the trading section is there are very little traders so splitting things up much would spread stuff too thinly at the moment.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:41 pm Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

I'm just worried we wind up with too many boards to confuse people.

That's my concern too

jema
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:41 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Feathers firmly on. The problem wiht the trading section is there are very little traders so splitting things up much would spread stuff too thinly at the moment.

But that may be chicken and egg syndrome....

jema
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:42 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Bugs wrote:

I'm just worried we wind up with too many boards to confuse people.

That's my concern too

I think I would resolve this a little by putting the trading section at the bottom of the forum page.

Rob R

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Location: York

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:47 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Feathers firmly on. The problem wiht the trading section is there are very little traders so splitting things up much would spread stuff too thinly at the moment.

I see your point, but speaking as a trader myself, the topic seems so disorganised at present that if I were new to the site, I would not be sure about using it to trade.

Also, when I do post something specific to sell, it can mean constantly posting something myself on the thread, just to get it back to the top of the list again & ensure it isn't lost further down the list.

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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Location: Derby

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 05 5:23 pm Post subject:

As a new person can I give my twopence opinion?

I think including the word "buy" in the trading post description would be good to make it clear it's not just for people bartering, I know it sounds well daft but I looked past the topic initially thinking, "I have nothing to sell, or to swap, that bit's not for the likes of me."

Even though it's obvious when I actually think about it that people selling stuff would obviously need someone to sell it too!

Rob R

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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 05 1:04 pm Post subject:

ele wrote:

As a new person can I give my twopence opinion?

Certainly

That is a very interesting observation & not one I'd have thought of, but just the kind of thing I think needs changing to attract more people on both the seller & buyer sides.

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