I've thought about this quite a bit, and to be honest, one of the key reasons that we don't have a "member classified" section is that it's a pain in the butt to monitor and manage, not to mention there's a whole lot of other places - say ebay or craigslist - to post stuff like that.

Not only that, there's the whole question of what happens when a sale goes bad (and there's always a sale that goes bad eventually....I'll tell you one day about a gun I bought online that arrived with the SERIAL NUMBER ETCHED OFF....).

I certainly don't want to get in the middle of that.

Also would be the issue of pricing. There's a free-for-all on Craigslist, and that's good and bad - good if you have stuff you want to sell and don't want to pay anything, bad if you think that the possibility of your buyer showing up at your home in a windowless white van while wearing clown makeup and only an adult-sized cloth diaper would be disturbing in any way.

On the other hand, on eBay, they generally keep the psychos at bay, but you end up kicking 10 to 12% of your sale price to various fees.

It might be worth it for ETS if we were able to get, say, $5.00 per ad, and it runs until sold or withdrawn by the seller, and both buyer and seller were willing to forgo any anonymity and were willing to be "sponsored in" as sellers by others.

Basically, I would only allow a few people I "know" here on ETS to sell, and that's because I know them outside of this forum, and I'd vouch for them. No offense to others here, of course.

I'd be willing to discuss further, as the forum software we have actually supports a sort of classified ad scheme.