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Facebook slowly strangling this site?
In2bmx:
Vote in , and my vote was YES :daumenhoch: shut it down ...
That Swan Guy:
I'm an advocate of Facebook and even I voted to shut it down.
It's full of idiots that are not members on here who are gaining a free audience for their ridiculously over priced tat!
Get rid of the FB page and police the sales better on here. There are lots of thinly veiled sale threads by newbies on the BMX Chat and Welcome pages.
stidds:
--- Quote from: Retrodan72 on October 21, 2014, 08:13 AM ---Ok, how about a compromise, NO sales on the FB page, ALL sales must be via the forum and MUST be completed by SST holders using the forum?
We could at least trial this.
--- End quote ---
My choice also, no sales on the FB group.
dinglem:
I use both. However, I have been a regular member on several forums over the years, mainly car restoration clubs and so on, and I can honestly say :radbmxsmilie: is by far the best forum I have used. As a point of reference it cannot be bettered and Fb cannot rival that. Posts on there are easy and quick, but are just as easily lost down the list of posts. Good for making a quick sale but lacking when it comes to research.
I have seen one of the old forums I was a member of completely collapse as the Fb version thrived.
I also don't think closing down the RAD Fb group will make any difference on here as there are now too many BMX a Fb groups to attract Fb users. Fb can be used to your advantage too though; I set up a closed Birmingham WHEELS page a couple of months ago and have since found and contacted the majority of the old WHEELS team, managed to speak directly with the old team manager, several if the Dutch team, have located numerous more frames and managed to buy two more myself.
Fb has a massive global footprint and I would never have managed to find all of those people without it.
Fb and :radbmxsmilie: both have a place I think.
Tel-boy75:
Have never registered on Facebook so couldn't comment, but what I can say is this site has been invaluable to me in terms of research and peoples helpfulness in answering queries I have posted.
If the facebook site allows people to buy and sell without an SST then I am sure that some people will take that option, thus denying this site funds towards running costs etc. If the facebook is closed down then these people may well go to another facebook page, but they wouldn't be trading on the goodwill and reputation that has been built up by RADBMX.
The SST is a bargain in my eyes, if there was an old school BMX magazine for sale at £5 issue I would buy it every month and still not have access to as much material that's on here - all for a contribution of a tenner!
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