What about a Buy or Swap section?????

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by smattei

I would say it will be difficult because:
- if there is a few items, no one will go there regularly --> no sales
-if there are really a lot of stuff... how would you be able to go trough all the items and find exacly those xx boxcar with the yxz special marking you are looking for? Until you build up a system that works, you will have to invest so much time that you will end up starting to charg people for doing businnes on it, and more or less you duplicate ebay.

Ebay just started a section where you can put your desired products and see if someone will offer you one.

And about reliability of sellers on ebay... normally you can easily see from the text and what for other stuff he is selling to know if he understand someting of trains or not.

sebastiano (a routined user of ebay)

This is not what happened on our Cowboy Site. We just opened the forum and let it go. No maintainence. Almost zero moseration. Again we are talking about guns not trains. Once again I invite you to look.

http://www.frontierspot.org/viewforum.php?f=8&sid=749c8b06ea532f09f8ec50ff149a8704

You'll notice there are wanted to buys as well as items for sale.

How would you like to say, "I need a few 36' box cars preferably Southern Pacific but no IHC's please. Am willing to trade." Try that on eBay.

Ebay is fine and there is a certain "high" to an auction. I use it alot. But I would rather deal with folks I know in closed community and bargain with them. I would rather know what I am getting and be able to trust those poeple I am dealing with.

I am beginning to believe that the folks most resistant to such a system have never tried one.

[Ibflattop]

It would be a For Sale/Trade section apart from the Discusstion section. It could have its own subsections for the different scales; G,O,S,H.O., N,TT,Z and even 1:1 scale.
It wouldnt be an auction type just a For Sale or Trade. Thanks Kevin

[Cox 47]

My vote is for a swap/sell/trade section Cox 47

[Anonymous]

How about a GIVEAWAY section? Most of us have things we no longer need or use, but we don't know anyone to give it to. If you pay the shipping, you can have it. This would greatly benefit those starting in the hobby without much money. And I have often gone to auctions and won boxes with HO equipment just to get the N scale stuff I really wanted. A lot of general auctioneers don't have a clue what goes with what. I have HO structures and rolling stock I'll NEVER use.

[Anonymous]

Maybe it all "boils down" to confidence and trust? Can anyone be blamed for caution and a certain measure of paranoia on the Net these days?