private firearm sales idea

[JaMail]

let people donate 10.00 to calguns for 72 hours of sticky time.

you post your pistol, you donate 10.00 to calguns, and a mod stickies it for 72 hours. you make a limit of 5 sticky threads at a time. your looking at raising 500 or so a month for the CGF...

[mtsul]

It's a "good idea" if it happened it would (I think) have to be XXX amount of $ for XXX amount of time and what happens if a item sells? Does he lose his/her time? I think we (Calguns) should sell say.... 5 spots a week that will always stay on top I know when I sell anything I'd buy 1 for a week for $0-30 just a thought

But I agree good idea

[HK35]

That or a $2 donation to CGF per listing. That seems to work on other forums classifieds.

[BANG BANG]

Makes for a great incentive both ways..

AND I had a VCR tape rewinder back in the day !!! it was awesome !!! LOL

I still remember a lot of movie rental placed having stickers that read

"Be kind and rewind" ha ha

[HatersLOVEme : )]

No offense intended here not trying to bag on your idea but its like setting up a inner lower and higher class structure really ! I mean what your really asking for / or want is a full and outright monopoly on the private sales section ?!?

I can see it now a bunch of guys with deep pockets paying 10$ to keep their ads on the top for 72 hours so we will have to look through 2 or 3 pages of paid stickies to get to new or current ads and people who might have bought our for sale item would have to look through said special treatment ads before even seeing the regular ones in my opinion it's like paid for bumping / almost borderline paid for shilling really - it's unfair wrong on both ends and bad business for all accept the person paying the 10$ .

I mean try to imagine it from the seller who is down on their luck and has to sell a few firearms to make ends meet so they are already short of cash and now they ether have to pay 10$ to even give their ad a shot at the first page which if they are only selling a 100$ C&R is 10% of their sale or a 200$ shotgun they are already taking a loss on it's a slap in the face really even more so to have their ad be on page three from the git or pay 5% of your sale for special page preference . We all want to make CGN a better place but not at the expense of it's members this is a member sight not e-bay .

I think we should make a rule that if you post a item without a pic you pay a 1$ penalty per item

BANG BANG I remember the Blockbuster employees wearing shirts and buttons that said that lol .

[thedrickel]

let people donate 10.00 to calguns for 72 hours of sticky time.

you post your pistol, you donate 10.00 to calguns, and a mod stickies it for 72 hours. you make a limit of 5 sticky threads at a time. your looking at raising 500 or so a month for the CGF...

People don't even realize the difference b/w CGN and CGF? All you would be doing is lining Kest's pockets, not the CGF's.

[Cyc Wid It]

It works for other forums... plus it's a good way to raise money for CGN. It tends to also show a seller's commitment to selling an item(s).

[JaMail]

@haters - thats why i said limit it to no more than 5 threads at a time, something reasonable like that.

@drickel - i know what the difference is between a privately owned forum and a non profit foundation. whats your point? i put in the donations would go to the CGF, of which kest is a board member. i said nothing about lining his pockets with donations meant for a foundation.

[novabrian]

Makes for a great incentive both ways..

AND I had a VCR tape rewinder back in the day !!! it was awesome !!! LOL

I still remember a lot of movie rental placed having stickers that read

"Be kind and rewind" ha ha

No,It's says DVD rewinder.You don't rewind DVD or CD's.LOL.