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Re: Time For Something New

I appreciate your input. I don't want sycophants, I want people to tell me what they want.

I get the whole "look" thing. I also despise ebay ads so full of needless crap I leave the ad before the page can even load (and I have a cable modem). Some examples of my finished work are my music review website the Indiepop Spinzone and my recent endeavor Magnestand. Kitschy I can't help, it's who I am. I have found however most people like it, or at least are not bothered by it.

I would intend the search engine to be more useful. It is amazing to me you can't search by zip code even on ebay. (although their old original search engine was much better but they removed it because stupid people couldn't use it).

I'd also like to start a program called gear roulette. Manufacturers (especially of cables etc...) mail you their item for evaluation for a week (for a 5 buck fee). At the end of a week they inform you who to mail it to next, and you ship it to them. They do the same thing, and so on.... The dealer will build up some equity from all the auditions, and it will bring their item to a wider audience. Who wouldn't try a new cable for 5 bucks? And if the dealer finds someone else is selling more, maybe they can change their design to accomodate public tastes before it costs them in the long run. (it would take established feedback of some sort to participate in this program, ebay feedback being fine) I have a lot of other ideas as well.

I agree the hardest part is having people come to a site with no ads and posting one. Maybe I should just post 1,200 fake ones, like starting club membership cards at 1,001. :^ ) (I'm joking, I'm joking)

I think 3 or 4 free months to begin would help a lot. (and bonuses for referrals) Then ads would be $2 for 30 day single item ads (dealer or not, ad removed when sold) $3 for multiple item ads that last 30 days (dealer or not. you simply have more than one of the item, stays up full 30 days) or $5 for a 90 day single item listing. (dealer or not, removed when sold)

We'll see what happens. I'd have to find someone good who could write all the complex scripts and maintain it. I'd probably use my current webserver (jumpline) to host who have been very reliable and my sites are never slow or have down time.


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