I’d like to keep the BLF User Negotiated Deals category inside the Commercial Sellers’ Spot to clearly show that those deals are at least somewhat “commercial” in nature. But I did just add a quick link in the description of the Commercial Sellers’ Spot that you can click on to go directly there.
Was it always this way, with deals flying all over the place?
Or was there a time when most of the discussions focused on flashlight topics and mods?
Not that I’m complaining. Just wondering. I’ve been out of the flashlight scene since adopting a son in 2006 2009 (before BLF existed). Back then, I was an on and off contributer to CPF - and yes, Greta ruled the discussion board much as she does today! 0:)
Well, BLF was founded with free sharing of links as one of its core reasons for existing. And that’s still extremely important to me. On other forums users had to refer to products like “DX sku 3985043”, which was a major pain to take a quick look at, and even more confusing for new users. So I’m thrilled to see links on BLF to interesting products, which is mainly what we did at the beginning. It’s just that as BLF got more and more popular, we also started earning a lot more commercial leverage, which is what has lead to the profusion of deals these days.
I’m not sure if this is the place to mention this, and it’s probably not going to be a popular idea, but I would like it if a price range code could be created to go with all these secret deals.
Something like price a=<$5.00, b=$5-10, c=$10-15, d=$15-20, then beyond $20, e=$20-30, f=$30-40 etc., and letters could be added together to increase price Roman numeral style.
Members could request this code once they reach a certain post count or whatever method is currently used to see if a member is real when requesting prices. This way members could know if a product is within their price range without requesting a price pm, threads wouldn’t be bumped more often than needed and it should still keep the map police away.
Yep, those subforums were a failure because their threads didn’t appear in the Recent Posts. This serves to illustrate the power of the Recent Posts page. So commercial liaisons: please use your privileges wisely and don’t mess up the freedom that currently allows your threads to appear in the Recent Posts list.