Sorry, is it allowed tho?

Despite them having more "traffic", Superfuture have a lot of big advertisers on their site. Not to mention that their server is probably based in the USA making it a helluva lot cheaper. You compared server prices to here and the USA?!

Well from observation, I see more posts made on here than on Superfuture. Does that graph actually show activity? or just page hits? as in people viewing the page.

I would imagine Nike Talk is a lot busier than all of the boards mentioned so far.

I am perfectly happy and understand if someone just says "hey, this is my board, Im here to make money, so you're gonna pay a tenner if you list on here, in the same way you have to pay money on ebay". (Yes of course that is their right). Just dont really like people making out its not a profit making exercise, when it blatantly is.

What I am a bit sceptical about is these kind of reasons mentioned like:

"erm… its to make classifieds safer for you"

"people who are golden wont like 'non-golden' people making money from Classifieds"

"servers are dead expensive when used in high volume, so were gonna charge you a tenner, even though S.F., Nike Talk etc are all free and much busier, and FUK still has black outs anyway"


As for all the people who have now paid this famous tenner, basically their responses boil down to:

"I'm all right Jack" (until the 'membership' fee becomes yearly, then bi-annual, then quarterly)

and:

"Shit, I paid a tenner, dont really know why: so now you should pay too"

shut up your whining you tight bastard. its pretty simple; if you dont like it then click the white X in the red box at the top right. geeeeez some people

try going to the other forums and start moaning about their flaws or even try a little bit of bad language and when they boot you off you can say "well you can do that on fuk the forum so why not here?" and see how far you get.

Agreed, the amount I have annoyed Bran & ben over the last few years it is worth a tenner to keep it going.

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i dont think you'll shut out that many items as i think the majority of people who post in the for sale section are the same names over and over again (most of which are goldens now anyway).

As a forum owner myself i know that if you just leave it to people who will just randomly donate to support the forum you'll get bugger all. You need to either promote a specific donation (like noble started before) or you need to charge for advanced features or privies. The simplest way to do it is to charge for those who profit/make money on the forum (ie sellers). I dont see a problem, few places in the world allow you to trade without charging you for it.

For private sellers you could introduce a more complexed system where maybe your allowed to sell 1 item per month for free or something. But it would be a bit complicated to keep on top of it so i guess the tenner a year way it much easier.

At the end of the day its a tenner for a whole year. Its a damn site cheaper than selling on ebay and its a very targetted market if your selling clothes etc.

If you gave a tenner to everyone you've annoyed, you'lld go bankrupt.

Yeah because everyone just loves you don't they.

so just to clarify there's no need for tagged pics?