bozo699
Gold $$ Contributor
People,Forum Boss said:I just shelled out $1500.00 for an upgraded Forum-only server. Should be online in a couple days.
This should be faster and more reliable.
If anyone's feelin' generous, kick in a couple bucks.
I've noticed 90% of the guys selling stuff in the Classifieds are NOT Site Contributors. :-\
The Classifieds remain free... but it would be nice if regular, repeat sellers would consider making a small donation. Fair is fair.
You'd pay over $50 to sell a $3000.00 rifle on Gunbroker.com. Here's what it would cost to sell $500, $1500, and $3000.00 items on Gunbroker.com (based on final auction price):
Gunbroker $500 Final Price FEES Total = $13.13
Gunbroker $1500 Final Price FEES Total = $31.88
Gunbroker $3000 Final Price FEES Total = $50.63
[Gunbroker.com Over $1,000 item Fee schedule: 5.0% of the first $25 ($1.25), plus 2.5% of the amount between $25-$1000 ($24.38), plus 1.25% of the amount over $1,000]
LINK: http://www.gunbroker.com/User/Fees.aspx#finalvaluefee
I agree with Paul 100%, there is no reason that when you sell something you can't chip in a little, I think it only fair. Do any of you belong to other gun forums? ever seen there classifieds, I mean the ones that actually have classifieds?.. Our scope section is bigger then most other forums whole classified sections, we have a HUGE classified section with literally 100's of items sold weekly, sometimes daily! But who say's it has to be just the sellers that donate?....I have never sold a single thing on here or anywhere else for that matter, I am a buyer, I get some very good deals on here so I donate from time to time as do others but PEOPLE (BUYERS AND SELLERS)PLEASE!! DONATE!! I for one don't want to HAVE to start paying a fee!! I would rather it be on a honor system! $1500 is a lot of money to come up with all at once to keep the site running smoothly, A lot for one man to have to dig up! I got on here yesterday morning and every time I clicked on the site I got a 404 ERROR!! I used another web browser,..still no 6br forum,
PANIC set in,..where did the forum go?? must have been doing upgrades BUT,.......What if one day you clicked on the site and there were no site?....for some it would be no big deal, they would just move on, but for many of us it would be a very sad day as this site is apart of our daily life! I cruise the members from time to time and many of them have been members for years with low post count but almost exclusively there posts have been on the classifieds with NO site donation below there names?? or people with HUGE post counts with no site donations! obviously they like the site they are on it all the time blabbing away, post after post and no donations! This is not a plea for you people that steadily donate, it's for the ones who NEVER have donated and for the one time donations, when you take a subscription to a magazine you pay monthly/bi-annually/annually Usually, so please treat the site like any other subscription that you are taking,..Thank you

Wayne.