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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 646089, member: 13650&quot;]I voted for both.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although it seems like we already have a classified section.&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#039;ve read some great ideas here.&nbsp;&nbsp; GD makes a good point that maybe it may be hard to get people to list auctions, but who knows.&nbsp; The open forum is very close to an auction style anyway when you can make an offer.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s just not a formal auction layout.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The first thing that came to my mind is how well policed a cointalk auction site could be if people were willing to do the work.&nbsp;&nbsp; When you have a site full of experts in their fields, dedicated to coins, and the auctions will be coins and no other non-sense, just think how well policed this could be compared to ebay.&nbsp; &nbsp; You could actually have a real zero tolerance policy for knowingly selling counterfeits and get bad sellers banned.&nbsp;&nbsp; Let them go back to ebay.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; The main problem I see for it working is simply the number of people.&nbsp; Lets see how many people vote in this simple poll which costs nothing.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; So far in two days, 77 people have responded.&nbsp; A very busy thread.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing most of the regulars have chimed in.&nbsp;&nbsp; If we had 100 auctions going, how many of those 77 might have bought in the past week?&nbsp; How many would the following week?&nbsp; And the following week? </p><p>&nbsp; Ebay&#039;s coverage is much broader for the sake of the seller.&nbsp; Where you may get more page views of your auction than total membership that exists here.&nbsp; &nbsp; You have to figure only a fraction of the regular membership may or may not go to the auction forum.&nbsp;&nbsp; A fraction of them may look at a particular auction.&nbsp;&nbsp; And then a fraction of them may actually buy.&nbsp; &nbsp; The pool of actual buyers here is probably much smaller to begin with than most would think right now.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;So it may not work unless people really pushed to get the word out to a lot of non-members so they would check ebay and here, and then sellers would have to be aggressively policed.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Maybe a neat idea but the end may not justify the means.&nbsp; It sounds like a lot of work[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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