Does anyone use AVForums Trading Forum (http://www.avforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=242) – just used it for two sales, both went very smoothly and the trading platform which includes active mods and a rating mechanism is pretty good – a niche, free-alternative to eBay, any comments/views? I have put off ebay recently due to the explosion in scam artists.

I've been visiting avforums for a few years now and the trading forums are excellent, safer than ebay and the kit is likely to be in much better condition.

I used to have some trade power-buys on there which worked well, hopefully I'll get some more stock in to open another one soon

The trading forums are I think based on the basic forum template with an add-on for the trader rating system, I think that is a pay-for forum software, but I'd imagine the free ones will work as well.

I can look into it for you if you like, would be happy to help out where I can.

Thanks - I think its based on an Open Source product I have seen before – the probably it clearly has like any new auction start-up is liquidity – i.e. critical mass of buyers & sellers – one way to encourage this is to make the system free (obviously) and also very simple and slick to use – which is one of the key reasons avforums works so well I think. I guess what I am thinking about is a cross between avforums / gumtree which may in fact = gumtree v2.0?