eagleboy7259
05-09-2010, 12:38 PM
I was wondering if other people would be interested in adding another section to the forums. Other sites like DakkaDakka have sections like their Swap Shop, where people can buy, sell, & trade miniatures and games.
This effectively helps people do bits trading, miniature sales, and commission work. Bits trading could be a big help to those who rely on ebay and other means to find bits, as the right bits are often hard to find on first glance and often people have to search though tons of unrelated things and still not find the right bit. It also limits restrictions on pictures a bit, allowing people to post more pictures letting buyers know the condition and quality of the parts they are interested in. I believe that a miniature sales sections could be just as valuable, as I know there are a number of people working on preheresy marines or other such projects. This could be an effective way to market OOP and special edition miniatures as well as that whirlwind that just didn't fit into your army list.
Allowing people to contact commissions would be a great way to join buyer and seller. I know that they do this on Relic New Forums home of Mr. Justin, TinWeasel, and others. In combination with the miniature gallery, this would allow people to see previous works as well as track the miniatures as they are being completed. I believe it would contribute to the growth of our miniature gallery as well as encourage new membership as our reputation grows.
Sales and contact could be done via private message and paypal, although BOLS could work in some kind of small fee, say 6% of final sale price with a flat fee of orders over $50 ($3 to BOLS if you were wondering). This would go to offsetting BOLS costs for the site as well as funding events such as BOLScon. This is either on par with ebay or less although its been awhile since the last time I sold on Ebay so I'm not really sure.
Finally the last thing I would like to propose would be miniature swaps and painting competitions. These would be done quarterly, and each competition would be done as a thread. Individuals would be selected at random to send a mini to another competitor, the competitors then have the remainder of the quarter to paint and post pictures of the minis. Painting competitions would be handled in a similar fashion minus the swapping. The pictures of the final entries would then be collected and posted to a separate thread for people to vote on. I believe this would encourage a greater sense of community within our forum as well as just being fun.
Hopefully some of that sounds like a good idea, and with enough support maybe we could expand this already awesome forum?
This effectively helps people do bits trading, miniature sales, and commission work. Bits trading could be a big help to those who rely on ebay and other means to find bits, as the right bits are often hard to find on first glance and often people have to search though tons of unrelated things and still not find the right bit. It also limits restrictions on pictures a bit, allowing people to post more pictures letting buyers know the condition and quality of the parts they are interested in. I believe that a miniature sales sections could be just as valuable, as I know there are a number of people working on preheresy marines or other such projects. This could be an effective way to market OOP and special edition miniatures as well as that whirlwind that just didn't fit into your army list.
Allowing people to contact commissions would be a great way to join buyer and seller. I know that they do this on Relic New Forums home of Mr. Justin, TinWeasel, and others. In combination with the miniature gallery, this would allow people to see previous works as well as track the miniatures as they are being completed. I believe it would contribute to the growth of our miniature gallery as well as encourage new membership as our reputation grows.
Sales and contact could be done via private message and paypal, although BOLS could work in some kind of small fee, say 6% of final sale price with a flat fee of orders over $50 ($3 to BOLS if you were wondering). This would go to offsetting BOLS costs for the site as well as funding events such as BOLScon. This is either on par with ebay or less although its been awhile since the last time I sold on Ebay so I'm not really sure.
Finally the last thing I would like to propose would be miniature swaps and painting competitions. These would be done quarterly, and each competition would be done as a thread. Individuals would be selected at random to send a mini to another competitor, the competitors then have the remainder of the quarter to paint and post pictures of the minis. Painting competitions would be handled in a similar fashion minus the swapping. The pictures of the final entries would then be collected and posted to a separate thread for people to vote on. I believe this would encourage a greater sense of community within our forum as well as just being fun.
Hopefully some of that sounds like a good idea, and with enough support maybe we could expand this already awesome forum?