One of the suggestions which appeared multiple times in the 2016 club survey results was having a classified ads section on the forum for buying and selling.
I'm in the process of setting this up, but wanted to do a quick, informal poll of whether members would want this to be visible outside the club too. In other words it's a section of our forum that we can see but so can others (like the non members section.) Ads would appear in Google search results (once Google found it and indexed it.) We could also, perhaps, have a view into it from the web site.
To maintain security it would be a case of asking potential buyers, both members and non-members, to contact you about an ad via the forum messaging system. That way no personal details are revealed and anyone outside the club abusing it can be very quickly and easily banned from the forum to prevent further access and contact.
Or we could just keep it visible to the club only.
Your thoughts please! Happy to do whatever the majority is!
@MattH
One of the suggestions which appeared multiple times in the 2016 club survey results was having a classified ads section on the forum for buying and selling.
I'm in the process of setting this up, but wanted to do a quick, informal poll of whether members would want this to be visible outside the club too. In other words it's a section of our forum that we can see but so can others (like the non members section.) Ads would appear in Google search results (once Google found it and indexed it.) We could also, perhaps, have a view into it from the web site.
To maintain security it would be a case of asking potential buyers, both members and non-members, to contact you about an ad via the forum messaging system. That way no personal details are revealed and anyone outside the club abusing it can be very quickly and easily banned from the forum to prevent further access and contact.
Or we could just keep it visible to the club only.
Your thoughts please! Happy to do whatever the majority is!
Cheers
Matt