Thinking about moving my "for sale" forums to a classified ad program for greater control, anyone else doing this?

I have not seen it, but have contemplated a threads hack for this. Strange enough, my forsale/wanted section of my forums are probaly about the most busy! And people get frustrated when they make an offer, and the seller doesn't notify them.. etc etc.<br /><br />I would LOVE to see a built in threads feature to help manage this *wink* *wink*

It would be cool to charge a fee for certain ads so not sure how that could be done with threads but I'm all for it.

Either charging for a certain forum ad, or making the ad sticky in the forum maybe? Just a thought if your gonna convert a forum into classifieds...

Trying to find a way that my "Members" group could use the for sale forums for free and the "users" group would have to pay a per ad fee like 5.00 or something but would want it automated though. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

One easy way is to allow only the 'members' group to start new threads in that forum. If your gonna charge a 'per usage' fee for anything, then you are getting into real time charge authorization, SSL and other evil/fun stuff. Maybe PayPal has an easy solution?

I would like that too.<br />People on my ad forums reply to their own posts all the time to get the post "sticky", and I get a lot of complaints about that.<br /><br /> www.steffo.nu