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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Peter T Davis, post: 2004726, member: 1&quot;]The real advantage of a place like CoinTalk is when you&#039;re doing a transaction here, you&#039;re dealing with someone you&#039;ve gotten to know in the discussions.&nbsp; Sure, we&#039;ve had a few bad deals, but they&#039;ve been very rare.&nbsp; There are some things a buyer can do to protect themselves here on CoinTalk, like use Paypal and don&#039;t send the payment as a gift, we&#039;ve been over that a few times.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Over the years, I&#039;ve been contacted by dozens of people who are convinced they&#039;re starting the next eBay killer.&nbsp; Sadly, nearly all of them don&#039;t even exist anymore.&nbsp; they last a few months, realize they can&#039;t get any traction, then give up.&nbsp; It&#039;s nearly impossible for a new site to get a critical mass of people using it, due to all the reasons people have mentioned in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, there&#039;s no need to code such a site from scratch either, just as there&#039;s no need to code a new forum from scratch.&nbsp; Just as with forums, there are quite a few &#039;off-the-shelf&#039; choices of software to use, with auction sites there are too.&nbsp; I&#039;ve not paid much attention to them, but you can find them easily with a google search.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When I saw this thread, it made me realize that I&#039;ve actually been seeing less people who want to build the next eBay over the past couple years.&nbsp; Seems like the heyday of &quot;eBay killers&quot; ended several years ago, now people want to make the next Facebook killer or Twitter killer.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d consider adding a more full featured buy/sell/trade/auction function to CoinTalk.&nbsp; It might be fun, and encourage more people to do transactions here.&nbsp; What I doubt, though, is that the cost of me having it done (it would take some custom programming) would be justified by the increase in use overall.&nbsp; Meaning, I think it would take a huge investment and I&#039;m not sure how I&#039;d ever pay for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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