Sell your stuff on aD?

I think it's just to keep the mods on their toes

 

Indeed, i'll be selling my AD towel, mug and pens with the mod buttons thrown in for free

 

Heh, yes, I've swore in the past that we'll never gonna open this type of section. But we sorta gave in under the pressure from Finnish users and launched similar forums there couple a days ago and so far, its been pretty smooth sail, which encouraged us to test it here as well. I'm sure it'll cause some problems at first, but ... after we've banned couple of hundred people who didn't bother with the (might I say, pretty damn strict) rules put in place, it might calm down. If it doesn't, we'll close it.

But then again, we have 740,000 members, so it is quite likely that some of them might actually have a use for this type of area. Dunno, lets see what happens.

And ye, creaky, maybe you should put the aD towel for sale.. "Towel of AfterDawn's mod- asking price $100. If you want it unwashed, $10,000" ;-)

 

Then we'll simply change the rules slightly and not allow any games or movies to be sold. That would restrict the "for sale" posts to hardware items, etc which are bit trickier to pirate

 

Hehe, like the saying goes, they can try to take the towel out of my cold dead hands

 

...reminds me -- off-topicish -- that we seriously need to start selling them or something. We have 200-300 towels in our office

 

It is not a joke, we have AfterDawn branded T-shirts, coffee mugs and towels. We've actually sold them to Finnish users in the past and have also sent them to moderators and winners of our various competitions. The reason why we havent sold them to anyone outside Finland is the cost of shipping -- one towel could easily cost $50 with all the intl shipping costs added and we've sorta doubted whether there's enough interest from users to pay such price (sure, if we'd ship 3 or more in one package, the price would drop per item).

Plus, we couldn't handle returns, aas it'd cost just too much.

But we have pics of them:

http://i.afterdawn.com/shirt/paita_muki_iso.jpg

and this is from one of our users (who won the aD gift pack from the innovation contest):

http://oma.afterdawn.com/bscd/show_image.cfm/10761/full/inno

The towel is "aD blue" with one small aD logo embroidered (spelling?) to it. The T-shirt has an embroidered logo in chest and a print in back (sticky one, my oldest shirts are 5 years old now and the question mark is still nicely visible).

 

Ye, the silly exchange rate USD now has makes it even harder to make it reasonably priced for U.S. users But maybe some sorta packages of "T-shirt, towel & mug" might work, as the per-item price wouldn't be so high, as the postage fee doesn't really go up if you add more stuff to the package.

 

I agree with you that there are problems with setting up a system like this and therefor we've made sure for now that only trading focuses on physical products, like components, consoles, etc. The whole thing is simply an experiment to see whether there's even need for classifieds section on our site. If there is, we can develop it further and spend time and effort on making a proper "marketplace" for our users. But if we get only handful of posts each month without significant impact on anything, we can say that there's not enough interest from users to warrant us to spend development time on this one.