Busse for sale/trade forum?

It is regrettable that people today appear to have as much trouble reading as they do speaking and writing. In my experience it is not difficult, I might even go so far as to say it is easy to scan whatever is available and locate whatever it is you wish to find. Imagine if you had to find something in a book or worse an encyclopaedia ( perish the thought ) I think it best to ignore the intellectually lazy and let sleeping hogs lie.
 
I, too, have been guilty of the chatter but have worked HARD to not do that in months.

The chatter was enough of a problem that another forum I belonged to made a software switch. This may not be a feasible change for Spark but I offer it only as an alternative. http://www.boatertalk.com This method allows a form input that ingests to a database for easy searching/sorting. A seller may make a comment in a notes section in response to a direct PM from a tire-kicker.

In the meantime, I'm guessing you'll find a higher percentage of Gold and higher members among the Bussites than most (if any) other subforum. I don't feel the particular need for a Busse For Sale subforum but, if it is created, I would want to maintain the same privilege to post my Busse, or any other production knife, into the general sale forum. In addition, if a Busse sale subforum is created, let's have a Busse specific moderator for that sub-forum. Heck... I'll volunteer, if necessary. If "chatter" is allowed in the subforum, then I can almost guarantee that the chatter would cease on any Busse thread on the main forum.

Another suggestion: I would strongly like to see individual listings for blades. It makes it easier to skim/shop, which seems to be the major complaint for others here. Heck, with individual Blade listings, I wouldn't care if the "bump" limit was 72 hours.
 
This is the entry form:

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This is sorted by newest entry...

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This is sorted by company...
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You can sort listings by ForSale/Wanted, Type, Company, Product, Price, City, State or Country. Click on the item for the Notes description.

Under "Manage Your Gear" you can adjust your listings. After 30 days your items goes "Not Visible" and you must select "Make Visible" to show up again.

After an initial expense of software, it manages its self.

Not tryng to reinvent the wheel or "back seat drive." Just offering an example of how another high traffic site does the Gear Swap. :D


This is the list view of a specific item... the Pyranha Creek boat.

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And this is how the items looks when you click on it.

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I am in favor of a seperate Busse marketplace to contain buy/sell/trade ads for Busse as well as Swamp Rat and Scrap Yard.I would upgrade to gold membership if it helped to make it happen.

Andy K
 
My vote, no change. The problem is there aren't enough ads to browse in the exchange :D . I don't know what people are complaining about, it only takes me a few minutes to look through the production knives for sale section :confused: .
 
Paddling

I like that format!! Very effective and efficient!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
 
But I'd be all for the strider haters and strider disciples to have their own forum. If you're in the right mood it can be entertaining, but other times........:rolleyes: ......:p :p :p
 
I would not be using a Busse only forum to look for knives, and don't look for knives in the Buck forum either. I browse the main sales forum looking for good deals on knives, not for any certain brand. If I was looking for only one certain model or brand of knife, I would do a search. I buy mostly non-Busse knives from the exchange.

If they make a Busse sale forum, I will ignore it just as I currently ignore the Buck sales forum. I will post my production knives with all the others, regardless of brands. If I was going to sell a Buck, I would post it in the main forum. More people would see my thread.

scanning through several pages in one forum is far easier than visiting a bunch of different brand forums.

If the production forum was to be split up by brand, then to be fair there would have to be separate forums for every popular brand of knife . . . Result? Traffic gets diluted and sales drop.
 
Rat thinks the eyeballs will be diluted Cougar thinks eyeballs will be concentrated. Why don't we ask the Buck forum to see if it's working out better or worse?
 
I have eclectic tastes. And I vastly prefer to have one location where I can go to satisfy them all. And maybe, once in awhile, find something else I might like!

I'd rather not see a separate Busse-related sales forum, just as I wish there was no separate Buck sale forum. I didn't like segragation in the 50s and I still don't like it now.:)

Of course, I'll live with it if I have to.
 
I do think that one reason the Busse/SRKW/SYKC posts seem to dominate the FST forum is that the Busse collectors seem to be the most active on BF in general. The top two forums for number of active viewers always seem to be Busse and HI, by a large margin. With that many active members, it seems natural that they are also going to have lots of posts in the "general" forums such as FST.

It also seems to me that the Busse forum has a particularly large percentage of paying members. A quick check just before posting this showed 31 members viewing the Busse forum. Of those 31, 3 were platinum and 12 were gold. There was also 1 moderator. That's essentially 50% of those viewing = paying members.

It seems to me that the general activity of Busse (and Swamp Rat and Scrap Yard) collectors makes a pretty big contribution to supporting BF overall. Having to scroll through a few extra posts seems like a small price to pay for having such a vibrant set of forums where we can all participate in something we love - owning, using and collecting knives.
 
My vote is for no change! My main interests are Busse knives and customs. The time it takes to surf the for sale forums is minimal! Leave it alone.
 
I enjoy having the Busse adds right way they are. Makes the production knives forsale forum more interesting to me.
 
Here's something I wrote about a week ago:

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I have the impression there are a lot of people who are strongly in favor, and nobody who is strongly against it -- which makes sense; it won't make much difference to the people who are buying and selling Busses so there's no reason to feel strongly against it.

I noticed a couple of people said they first started looking into Busses because they saw so much trading in them in the Exchange and said they were afraid if that trading were put in a separate forum that would prevent new people noticing it, but that makes no sense at all -- new people can't help but notice there's a whole forum just for trading in Busses and that will make them at least as curious.
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It seems at least a couple of people are strongly against it, though, and it's not entirely clear to me why. In fact I don't see why anybody feels so strongly about this one way or another. It's a matter of how many times you're going to have to click your mouse, people. Your right to buy and sell knives is not at stake here. If you are interested both in Busses and in other knives it's a question of whether you would rather keep clicking to go to the next page or whether you would rather click to go to another forum. Either way, I doubt your forefinger is going to fall off from too much clicking....

There is clearly enough traffic both in Busses and in other knives to make both forums viable if the forum is split.

If you're only interested in buying a Busse (at the moment) you'll have fewer posts to wade through. If you're only interested in buying some other knife, likewise. If you're shopping for both right now you'll have to click on both forums, which might be more or less trouble for you than clicking next page a lot.

If you're a seller you should want to make it easy for the people who want to buy your knife to find it. Put yourself in the buyer's place. What would be most convenient?

If you get yourself all worked up about "being forced" you're only going to impair your ability to think straight. This isn't a matter of choosing between Good and Evil, it's a matter of deciding what arrangement will be most convenient for buyers, which is to the benefit of sellers too.
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Cougar,
I believe you will find that the problem isn't so much having a seperate forum as being forced into 1. I was one of the supporters of Hi when its memmbers asked for 1. I would use the Busse sale forum if one is made, probably pretty much to the exclusion of using the main forum at all, unless looking for something specific.

What has me pissed and I would imagine alot of other Busse and Swamp Rat forum members is that none of us asked for this. It is being spearheaded by those who either don't like Busse's or can't afford them and therefor don't want to have to look at them. If you or Spark had come to our forums ( Busse or Swamp rat) and said " Hey the production for sale forum is getting unweildy, we are thinking of making a seperate sub-forum for the Busse family of knives, What do you think?". You would have had an outpouring of support for it as just about all of us really appreciate BF and want to support what ever makes it easier for you all to do your jobs and keep it running smoothly.

However when we see a post that says with 40 upgrades to gold or better by non Busse forum members we will forcefully segregate them to their own little sub-forum it pisses us off. If it makes it easier for you to control the boards then just make the move. If it is just to apease some whiney nosed prats and you all are comfortable with that then at least make it worth it to BF and make it be 120 or better yet 200 upgrades to gold or better since you need to be gold or better to sell and by their vote they will be forcing a large number of your paying customers into their own sale board.

Cougar none of the harshness of this post is diricted at you or Spark, I am just tired of all the Busse Bashing. Some Hi members asked for a seperate sale sub-forum and before it was over that thread turned into an anti-Busse thread also. It just gets old after awhile.

Jim
 
There was no Busse bashing at all in my original post - it was not my intention.
I made a request - and that was it.
I feel that the overwhelming traffic in Busse knives is bogging up the forums as I mentioned.
It is my opinion and I said so.
There have been valid points made on both sides of the argument, but "bashing"? - I don't think so.

We can currently block members whom we do not like by using the "ignore" feature.
I would gladly pay extra to have a word blocking function added.
Enter the word you want to filter out and all posts containing it becomes invisible.
It would solve the problem for all.
 
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