I've created a website, it's a classifieds for electronics hobbyists! I'd like to know what you guys think of it because I've put a lot of work into it. Essentially it's just a plain-old classifieds system, just post and get an email when people want something you have. It's completely free and anybody can use it, and posts last 3 months.
Great! I think we can do some groupon like stuff, (if I understand this correctly) someone buys a big lot of something and distributes to everyone interested for less cost than individual purchases.
grenadier:
Just so you know, there is a market for anything. I've even sold broken ATX psus in the past.
One (wo)man's trash is another (wo)man's treasure.
I'm a collector and I collect old electronics, computer processors, old software/games and literature. I also trade my shields to get items into my collection.
As of late I've been working on a system to ban the IPs of scammers, and ironing out a few bugs in the process. After that I plan on working out a way to have little country flags next to the posts, corresponding to the poster's logged IP.
If somebody is flagged a scammer, not only will they get a mean IP ban but they will also have that IP and their email posted on a webpage of known scammers. I doubt there will be much scamming going on though, as most people aren't mean spirited.
The key was to have the locations set by IP, and thus have them at predefined values which could then be searched. By clicking on either country or region when you view a post, you see all the other posts in that location. Now when the site becomes popular, I can simply put country flags up in the corner that people could click on for easy locationifying.
KE7GKP:
I think this is GREAT! I have a bunch of stuff I can list here. I gotta prepare a good spot to make some photos, etc. Thanks for the resource!
I've seen this in the past, find a good cardboard box, large and preferably white inside, cut out the top,left and front surface, leaving the other faces (keep nicer faces). Then secure it at the corner or a room or table. Put your tripod there and lay your item inside the box and snap a shot.
Site looks v. promising - in fact I think it could be a winner for secondhand / older stuff. Do you have a strategy for detering and dealing with scammers though?
