are there any communities that do a lot of sales

[honestdave]

Anybody know of any communities that allow their members to buy and sell stuff from eachother.

AKA, 5k or more items sold between forum members

[4x4 Mecca]

<a href="http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=4" target="_blank">http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=4</a>

[honestdave]

nice. you ever think about getting a commission off the sales

[4x4 Mecca]

Sorry, That one is not my site. I do run a 4x4 site though, and members do sell high dollar vehicles or parts.

To charge a % of the sales price, I think I would have to offer something totally unique and beyond any other site. There are a lot of 4x4 sites where they could sell things for free.

If I was confident I had a site that users were willing to pay a % to sell something, I might be interested.

[honestdave]

so do any vbulletin sites do this?

[honestdave]

i'm gonna bump this up once more. there has got to be some sort of vbulletin community somewhere that has focused their efforts on a marketplace

[honestdave]

ooooh. www.earnersforum.com has a cool marketplace! i look forward to talking to them.

if you are from earnersforum please drop me a line!

[kobescoresagain]

If I was you I wouldn't try to get money from people selling to each other. Becaus eI think it would just kill a successful forum. I would try to do upgrades to items. I believe someone made a classifieds software that integrates with vbulletin that allows you to sell items for free possibily but you can change for extra features.

[honestdave]

well its working for www.etsy.com . so hopefully it will work for us sometime in the future.

but yea...any fee system scares away some people