I looked on the EIM site and couldn't find a "for sale" section. Is there a spot where you guys put parts up for sale? Its always nice to hook up locals with a good deal / recycle usable parts.

Maybe we can just use this thread for the future if one doesn't exist.

 

I've had good success selling items using the NAM Marketplace feature but I have avoided the listing fee by virtue of my grandfathered NAM Alliance membership. I'd have thought twice about it if I had to pay $5 for every 30-day ad.

It might take too much care and feeding to host such a capability on our website -- maybe I'll ask our web designer/master Rob about it. Anyway, I don't see anything in the Site Guidelines or FAQs that explicitly prevents us from listing stuff locally in this thread. Sounds like a plan.

 

http://www.easterniowaminis.org/classifieds Try it out and see how it works.

 

You've been a busy beaver. Very cool!

Suggestions:

1. We probably don't need the Country field or the website URL field (most folks don't have their own personal website for marketing stuff)

2. It would be really nice if there were a way to upload a picture or two of the item for sale (maybe place a limit on the size or dimensions to prevent people from uploading 100 gajigabyte image files to the server)

Can't wait to give this a whirl!

 

You can add up to four images already, it's just not part of the first page, once you fill out the first page of info, then you can add images on the second page.

 

Awesome. Going to give it a try soon...

 

Awesome!!! I'll check it daily! I'd be ok with using the NAM marketplace, but NO ONE ever puts their location and that stupid "distance calculator" thing never works. Its told me that someone in Chicago was only 15 miles away and I'm in Dubuque...

 

^^ That's just a tiny bit off...just a bit...