Choosing a Marketplace Layout

[five.five-six]

bothe handgun longgun and geographical.

[GlennG31]

Hey, Kes. I'm liking the new handgun / long gun split, but I can see the dilemma where someone has both types of guns in their ad. Which forum do they put their ad in? I know one of the Marketplace rules is to consolidate all of a person's sales into one ad to keep the clutter down. But if you stick with the handgun / long gun split, how about amending that rule to allow a person to post a separate ad in each forum if he/she has both a handgun and a long gun to sell?

[Lone_Gunman]

I actually like it split by long gun/hand gun. It makes it much easier. I would support requiring the location (city/county) in the title.

CA is just too damned big to have it split NorCal and SoCal. Somebody in Sacramento is a 7 hour drive from Eureka, but they're both NorCal. Just either split it long gun/hand gun and require a location in the title or put it back he old way and require a location.

[1recluse]

I would say it is a numbers game that should not be hard to define. Number of handguns vs rifle ads, numbers of north verse south which works out best for CalGuns on their data used?

Personally for me I want to know about 1911's sold state wide. I keep a database of guns that interest me throughout the state. As CSA said I will drive hours if I want it twice, so north or south is not a deal breaker.

[jimdelmar]

I like long gun / hand gun. Location should be REQUIRED in the title though.

[shotcaller6]

Long gun / hand gun is OK, however all in one works as well. I do think regional is a great idea as well. I would suggest as North, Central and South, with the North extending from the Oregon border to Santa Rosa , the Central extending to Fresno.

[bubbapug1]

Handgun long gun split only.

Don't split it north south as some buyers DO ship an I don't want to miss a great deal because I have to look in 4 forums!

[ColdDeadHands1]

Gosh darnit! Personally, I do not want a geographical split. Why? People travel, people ship. Even people that don't want to ship may do so eventually.

Rather than split the forum, REQUIRE that location be stated in the thread title.

Sorry Kes, but I do not like the new format of the 2A and Firearm Sales forums. What I could once browse in two forums now takes me five. This will lead to me skipping forums and ultimately missing topics / ads that I would have previously read.

[Ubermcoupe]

While I prefer the NCal/SCal split, I really like the idea of location in the title thread.

“NCal: WTS Ruger mini 14 & SA XDS stainless” or even “NC: WTS SMolt 686 stainless”

At the end of the day, i’ll be browsing both () and may be willing to drive down south for a gun or two, but most often than not, i’ll be up here in NCal.

Let me know if you need help keeping the subject lines divided Kes

[Tanner68]

Location required in title.... that's it. The geographic split is only a partial fix and creates new issues. Some will live near the split. Others will live in the far north or south aren't helped much.

[SOAR79]

what a headache!

[EXTREMEOPS1]

Option three

Norcal and Socal option 3 for me

[Equis]

Please no geographical split, how hard is it to just google up the location, and decide if its too far for you. I like the original recipe, as long as someone puts their location it's not bad. The long gun, handgun split, I see new posts in the long gun for handguns. I'd stay with the keep it super simple rule, I'm already checking double just in case I missed something if someone incorrectly posted in the wrong category.

Then we got this whole NorCal, SoCal, and Bay Area. I've never considered the Bay Area any kind of NorCal, it's just then Bay. In relation to LA, San Diego, I guess we're NorCal, but then where does it start, and where does it end?

[Brandon04GT]

I much preferred the older style. One forum for everything. Makes it easy to keep an eye out for deals lol!

But really...the firearm marketplace thread template was made in such a way that anyone can use hover their cursor over the title and get all the essential info they needed.

[zfields]

Just leave it as is and require better ad titles.

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