Poll: Create an additional, structured, paid-for, B/S/T section

How about this idea instead:

# mod has to approve thread before it is posted - there could be a specific mod assigned to do this, to ease strain of the others

This will;

1: help keep out the crap and the spam
2: give other threads a chance to get noticed whilst others are being approved
3: help keep the cost down - as if domaining wasn't costly enough already lol

 

Unfortunately, I think that's been happening quite a lot - people go elsewhere because of the junk and don't bother coming back.

Might help a bit although I don't think anything can cut them out completely.

You're assuming nothing will be done. I'm fairly sure something will happen with the BST section, although I'm not sure what exactly. The more suggestions for a fix that get put forward the more likely the end result will be a good one that suits everyone.

 

Quality of the offers would be higher too, so there would be no problem.

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If the bst goes paid only then DP will probably lose a lot of members to another forum that will blossom offering free listings. I would support a paid system if the prices were affordable.

 

$5.00 per new service you want to offer sounds good to me - with [WTB] threads being free.

If you think you're product is decent enough to sell, surely forking out $5 for it shouldn't be a problem.

 

Which is why I suggested keeping the existing BST section (free) and adding a NEW, paid-for, BST section. Best of both worlds, imo.

 

I think $5 is way too much, everyone (or most folks) will just use the free section and this new section would not solve any problems.

 

How is it way too much unless you're selling $1.00 items or so?

Even if you're selling $5 items (which should be in the Freebies section), two items and you're in the profit. If you think your product is good (and if you don't, then why the hell are you selling it?) surely you should be able to make two sales.

 

The thing is, I don't spam the BST section so yeah.

Anyway, the quality sites still get bidded on and the shit sites get left in the BST section so... no need IMO.

 

Even if you are selling something for $15 or $20, $5 is a huge portion of your profit.

 

I'm talking about a $5 one off fee to list something for sale mate, not $5 per sale.

If you sell five copies of a $20 product, that's only $5/100. Not at all bad.

 

Why not $10 then? Or $20 or $40 like sitepoint? Every market has it's sweet spot and IMHO going from free to $5 per listing is very, very high.

Start at a lower price and let's see the value in the listings. If I stay on the first page for 5 days and make lots of sales then I would be willing to pay $5 or $10 easy, but if because it costs $5 all the premium listers have to raise their prices and now their prices are higher than the folks listing for free then you can imagine what will happen.

Maybe a step approach type of introduction would work, listing would be $1 for the first 3-months, then go to $2 and so on, till they reach $5. Then there will be lots of history and data to decide what the best price is.

Add Info: I should point out that $5 is not really high for certain categories, for the sale of established websites it could be $5 and for link sales or signature link sales the price could be $1 or $2. I guess it would depend on the value of the items being sold whether or not a certain pricing level would be appropriate.

 

. Someone might make a quick proxy template for $10 dollars then it costs $5 dollars to post, so they only get $5 big ones.....

 

Paid forums, will never happen

WHY......cause Shawn said No like 20000000000000000 times,

This has been suggested over and over and over

Same reply from Shawn EVERYTIME...........NO

PLUS

Free is also simple !

Why change whats not broken

 

How much quality is a template that's being sold at $10.00 though?

Surely that's the point of this whole thread - to try and raise quality of the stuff being sold in BST?

 

Not everyone can afford for for an expensive design, not everyone can make one and a proxy design is not that expensive. We are not all millionaires.. ohh and what happens if someone wants to sell their signature for $6 dollars a month?

 

Another excellent point and reason why it won't work.....

Isnt that a bit of a selfish statement?

How would you like to work an extra 15 hours a day approving threads?


Remember the MODS work for free

Oh, Have you see cheap seo's thread

"More the 1 million threads in bst"

hahaha.......Don't think there is enough mods in the world to try your theory...............

 

According to some people here they are saying it's hard to sell stuff so we need an 'exclusive section' that for some reason some of you think the quality will be higher... ha that's a laugh. According to you guys 'the bst section is full of crap' well what happens when people start posting things that are worth 1,2,3 dollars after the money is taken out? Not to mention the fact that many sellers might charge extra. Eg "you pay listing fee'

 

Ah shit, you got me there

There could always be a 'premium listings' section for each forum - where the paid for listings are given say a week at the top... now I'm waiting for someone to take that argument apart..

 

I know this may be a bit off topic, and I dont mean anything by it...
But from what I have heard around here is that DP makes a killing off of Adsense... More than I'll probably see in a lifetime lol

Why doesnt Shawn pay the moderating team?? This way you could have something like that?

 

It obviously came across the wrong way, it wasn't intended to sound selfish in anyway, apologies.

I do like the idea of a $10 premium membership fee or something though, I would hapily pay $10, then you could get access to premium member forums. That could well work.