Hi girls, I came up with an idea this moring while looking at my extra manga. What if there was a "Store" board on the Advertizing Board? This would be a place where myself and the rest of you can post things you'd like to sell in real life. Like a mini version of ebay, you'd post a picture of the item, a description and a price for both the item and it's shipping price (I would post a template to follow). Other members can private message the member selling whatever it is to ask questions or buy it. Buying the object would be handled by the two people involved. The store would have nothing to do with this roleplay site, Strawberry Panic, or Proboards at all. Any transactions handled would have nothing do do with any of the staff or members of this site or any other site, unless they were involved directly with the transaction.

Personally I have anime, manga, movies, games, cosplay odds and ends, and things I'd like to sell, and I'd rather sell them to people in this community, rather than to just anyone on ebay or at a garage sale. And I have a paypal so all transactions would be secure and all transactions would be legal and final that way. But then I thought there's so much more to this idea than that. I'm afraid it might distract from the site's purpose: roleplay and fun. People could end up joining just to buy and sell things, there could be fights between members over getting items and payments, and thats not what we're here for. So should I just set up an ebay store and post a link? Or set up a store right here on sprp?

i'm rather on the fence. yes it would be cool to even just swap manga and anime and stuff, but i am really afraid of the fights from people not getting their payment or items. i mean from the get-go there is really no way to enforce it. eBay and other sites have a money back protection and guarantee that also punishes sellers from flaking out. they also have a grading system to tell if the person is either a good seller, a good buyer or had high quality stock.

i wouldn't be too worried about it distracting from the role playing portion of the site. it would be removed enough that it would be as distracting as the games in the general board. im dramaphobic because i have seen it tear sites apart, but it hasn't seemed to be much of a real problem on this site but the store may add it.