Should Retailers/Wholesalers Use THRs Classifieds?

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Absolutely.

Use www.northeastshooters.com as an example. If you pay for a membership as a dealer, you get your own subforum, and moderator rights to that forum. That forum is entirely yours to use. If someone wants to do business with you, they can visit your forum. You can advertise in your own subforum all you want.
 
I don't know. I like it when a vendor like Top Gun Supply posts deals in BST. He has prices, and they're usually pretty good deals. I don't like threads like this one: THR Firearms Auction Thread, where someone is advertising an auction. It's going against the whole forum rules, where you have to post a price with what you're selling. It's more of advertising spam than something I'm interested in seeing.

I guess it really depends on the forum rules. I don't want to see vendors swamping the forums. Maybe limit them to a single sales thread where they post their wares, with a single bump per 24 hours.
 
I guess it's time for me to finish up the site I started in my sig line...it's only been about 6 months. Sheesh...where does the time go?
 
My two cents, I think it's fine the way it is. If a dealer gets too bothersome jsut add him to your ''ignore'' list. Teh posts I've seen from dealers so far seem to be good deals.

I might suggest that a dealer post the fact that he is a dealer.
 
I wouldnt mind dealers selling on the forum, but Id like to see them have their own seperate classifieds and not lump them in with the individual sales
 
As it stands, it doesn't seem to be a problem. If active members are dealers and want to advertise a gun that they're trying to move because it's been on the shelf 6 months, great. We get a chance at a deal. If it's a regular thing, as said, like an additional store front, that would be bothersome.

As a hard and fast rule, anyone advertising in the for sale forums with a post count of 0, doesn't even get a read from me. Dealer or not, doesn't matter. If someone has an actual post count, I feel like they've contributed to THR and I'll give them quite a bit of leeway. Again, dealer or not, doesn't really matter.

As long as dealers (or individuals) keep within the spirit of The High Road, there shouldn't be a problem.

However, realistically, I think a dealer sub-forum would be a great idea. Then we could argue 9mm vs .45, what caliber for deer, AND check out what FBMG has for sale all on the same forum. :D
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Create a sub-forum for commercial sales, charge the retailers a nominal user's fee (after all, if they're using the site like a storefront, they ought to pay rent) and only allow reputable companies to advertise.

Seems like a good idea to raise some revenue for the site or to help fund Mr. Volk's photography projects.

The only way I can see it backfiring is if the retailers start demanding special treatment or exemption from the forum's rules.
 
It depends.

If its a special price on a single gun, a group buy or a nice discount on a particular model they are trying to move then I wouldn't mind at all. If its just an advertisement for their everyday low price then I am not interested.

If Jeff's Online Gun Shop just started listing everything they have on our classifieds then I would be a bit annoyed but if Wild Bills Guns post and said "I have three demo Sig P239s in .40 S&W for $399 each. They look terrible on the outside and new on the inside." that would be awesome.
 
Not for ordinary things, but if they want to pop a message in letting us know about a particularly good deal that sounds like a good thing. I wouldn't want to browse through CDNN or Cheaper Than Dirts catalog every time I want to browse the classifieds.
 
Only if it's a separate section. Retailers/Wholesalers sometimes have good deals but often are looking to sell tons of new stuff at prices you can find locally and flood classifieds with really ho-hum prices forcing you to wade through them to find actual deals on used equipment or firearms. Ebay is a good example of that phenomenon (for non-firearm goods of course).
 
As it stands, it doesn't seem to be a problem. If active members are dealers and want to advertise a gun that they're trying to move because it's been on the shelf 6 months, great. We get a chance at a deal. If it's a regular thing, as said, like an additional store front, that would be bothersome.
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Sounds good to me, don't fix what isn't broken. If dealers become a problem stick them in their own forum or show them the door. I don't like to look for the needle in the haystack of a good used deal in with a ton of retail new pricing.

Part of what I like about THR is its one of the few major gun forums that isn't run by the sponsors or trying to milk money from me all the time with crazy schemes. Capitalist instinct is to say to take money from dealers but I'd rather they find the rest of the internet.
 
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