Thread: The new vendor / classifieds program

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

I totally understand that the site is run by volunteers who effectively donate their time.

Dylan, in terms of moderation it is still 'run' by volunteers, but in terms of systems administration, AFAIK, gugi and Bruno are the only two who are maintaining the site, working for a living, and in Bruno's case, raising a family. Not sure if gugi has the stress & strife, or the kids, but I'm pretty sure he has a full time job.

I remember the fund raiser you handled. That was for a new server IIRC. Back in those days there were a few systems administrators on staff as volunteers, besides Bruno & gugi. Different kettle of fish now.

I've put the points so far up for discussion.
The item about member services will possibly by pushed back to the feedback round of the vendor program.

I couldn't agree more Randy on these two classifications...IMHO these are at the top of the list of reasons for SRP's popularity. Especially for new guys. I mentor and do honing for lots of folks here in my area. As an example I spent over an hour on the phone yesterday walking a new guy step by step through the process of restoring some vintage strops that he picked up on the Bay.

Originally Posted by randydance062449

May I make an observation and a suggestion?
I would like the B/S/T forum to include 2 more classifications

1: Mentoring help, ( free of charge/no cost )
Currently the list of people willing to help new guys in their geographical area is in the Wiki and
difficult to find. A number of new guys who have come to my home have found me via an
Internet search. None have said by using the Wiki so I would like to have this added to the B/S/T
because it would be more visible to new guys. Either there or as a sticky in the Beginners forum.

2. Services ( paid services)
I have had discussions with some guys who perform honing/pin tightening/razor buffing for a small
fee on an occasional basis.
They have a real problem with the vendor program costs. For them it is simply not worth the
money or just barely ( maybe).
If we keep them out of the B/S/T then we are not only putting them out of business but also
depriving the new guys of a source for help and it is help that the new guys really need.
The Vendor program is simply to expensive for the occasional honing/scale making/pin tightening
/ restoration person.
Please rethink this.

Thanks for reading

Bruno, is the vendor program active yet? I'm very interested.

Originally Posted by bluesman7

Bruno, is the vendor program active yet? I'm very interested.

Excellent. Then you can be the guinea pig to see if everything works as expected. Ill send you a pm shortly

Hmmmm. The vendor title doesn't show up on past posts. Perhaps it will on this new post.

I'm trying to get my website up to date before I put it in my signature.

Thank you very much Bruno.

I haven't been on here in a while,and didn't realize the classifieds had gone away until I saw this thread on the right hand side of the forum page. It seams good over all, but for me I miss being able to see the price with out haveing to click on each item. Being honest,I'm totally picking nits, but would it be possible to search by price or arrange the view to see lowest first, highest first or what ever. I understand if would be a big undertaking and that's why it's not done. Trying to be constructive in criticizing.
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