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Now, ignoring the rather silly comments saying that 40 members = crap and that every forum should have more in 4 months (forums grow at different rates, remember?), and being relatively polite rather than completely flaming you to heck like seems to be the way with certain recent 'reviews', I have to say that you need to fix that style. Heck, the biggest problem is that the vBulletin default images are still being used on a four month old forum that has a completely different theme to what they were intended to be used on. Heck, ANY effort at customisation would help about now.

My second comment is that it looks rather dead, which is partly due to most forums being empty. You wrote a nice scam prevention post which gives detailed, sound advice for example, but have you thought of writing more in depth intelligent topics or articles related to the forums, if not just to fill up the zero post ones? Need to work on that.

The other major problem I see is that the forum is completely devoid of any features outside the default. At any rate, a proper auction or shop type system would work wonders, as would the various buy and sell modifications like feedback stuff. Just it looks completely devoid of interest or 'professionalism', which will likely put people off massively.

Finally, I think the style just needs a redo. The advertising banner thing should just go, because the interest in private advertisers on a 40 member 47 post forum is about zero, and the banner and style in general just needs some fixing to look presentable.

Customise BB code and smilies as usual (and yes, I do have an interest in everyone using non default BB code and smilies, as people can likely guess).

Good Points about your forum:

1. Not as many forums as I've seen before, which is better than some.

2. Forum name and domain makes it 'just what it says on the tin'.

3. Nice information on scam prevention.

To improve:

1. Get or create a better style, because it looks like it's been made in Paint at the moment, and not in the good way.

2. Customise the other images. Uniqueness matters.

3. Write more content, because you seem like you're good at writing it.

4. Add some specialised buy/sell/trade features like feedback ratings or a proper system.

5. Fill up those empty forums.

6. Post more, or get members to post more, because the posts to members ratio is just poor at the moment (I've seen worse, but it needs improvement).

7. Add more features, add more smilies, add more vB code, customise the phrases a bit more...

Hope the advice helped.