You know what guys this WAS a great site to buy and sell gold on but there are several problems that have cropped up over the last few years. I will cover them one by one but before I do I want to warn you guys I am going to be very straight forward because quite frankly I am so tired of the bitching and moaning on this site that I have not sold on here for dang near a year. That is significant because before Dave started changing the site I was second only to him in volume of gold sales. Now here are the problems with this site one by one ( I hope that maybe if someone is brutally honest here something will be done but I have reason to doubt that)1) Lack of traffic (Dave this one is for you to handle)
2) Would you want to buy gold at a site full of complaints about the sellers, we are grown men and are able to do the math. If you are to lazy to do your own research then you deserve to overpay, if someone is unscrupulous enough to way overprice. Husk and Bert although you guys have been here longer than me at this point I think it is fair to also call me a veteran of Goldbay as well. What you guys are trying to do is honorable but the name slinging, insults and overall boorish behavior is not becoming of anyone and only drives people away. This is directed mostly at Trace and Husk. Husk me and you have butted heads before but recently I offered you an olive branch of peace and I do not want to upset you you know your stuff and you should warn people but once and discreetly not a five alarm bell it detracts from the site and harms all sellers by making this place look like a dangerous place to buy nuggets. If two people decide to sling mud at one another then they both look dirty. I learned that one the hard way with you and refuse to participate in that type of action any longer. As far as the constant references to Bad Ebay sellers quite frankly that is a pile of bull, I have sold on ebay as a power seller for years I have a 99.6% rating with thousands of transactions done. For the most part most Ebay sellers are fair and quite frankly if you look at it in proportion to numbers of listings the percentage of overpriced listings on this site are greater save for daves listings and a couple of others.
3) Dave I am sorry but for the longest time you have been an absentee host, you used to take part every day now it is difficult to get a email returned. I am glad your side gold business is going great for you but you should decide if this site should be kept open and if so hire someone to manage it full time or do it yourself, I really miss the good old days when we were more community minded, lately goldbay has been left to the wolves.
4) Honestly if people cannot get along I hope Dave removes the discussion and comment boards they cause more trouble and harm than they are worth now, at one time they were great but now well read for yourself. Feedback should be enough of a gauge to see if a seller is reputable.
5) This is a site for natural gold purists, only gold and gold related products such as paydirt, nuggets, specimens should be allowed to list on this site. Maybe a section for rare minerals but that is a big maybe.
6) better maintenance of the site, and a help line that offers immediate help. There are so many glitches on the site that someone needs to be available to help new sellers list and sell properly from conception of the advert to feedback! If I was new here and had trouble and had to wait days for a response to a question if on is even received at all, I would move on most likely to ebay which believe it or not now offers phone support for everyone as well as instant online chat. I know Dave does not have eBay's big budget but I seem to remember statements of becoming the largest gold selling site in the net, ebay sells more nuggets in ten minutes than this site does in a week at one time this site offered good support what happened to it?
7) Dave you are by far the most well supplied person with gold and have the best resources but if you want to run a public auction site with peons like me selling it is hard to compete against you if you dominate the listings, You have stated that your private sales far exceed your Goldbay sales why not leave the crumbs for the little guys and maybe contact members/sellers privately and offer to supply them with gold for sale rather than compete with them, you will most likely increase your sales volume, increase the amount of sellers offering their wares and have more time to directly deal with members instead of building listings. the money you make on auction fees would probably better cover your expenses if this site were run with more attention paid to the buyers and sellers.
Ok I am done for the moment and think I covered the major problems I see. I already know someone will say sell on eBay if you don't like it here or something else like that, save your breath because I already am along with starting my own site. I would love to sell on here again and may do so soon, but that will not change the difficulties experienced by new users that I have stated above. Guys I am not trying to make enemies here with this post I respect all of you (even husk lol) and have made several friends on here including Trace, Bert, Dave and others. If you feel the need to berate this post go ahead I will not gratify those type of posts with a response, if you have something constructive to say I will gladly banter about it, and maybe just maybe we will get Dave's attention. And a note to Dave, I know I have been fairly critical of you in this post but I mean it as constructive criticism and only to benefit you and the members, I hope you are not upset at me for this but if you are well what can I do it has been said and I am sorry if that is the case but this forum needs a dose of true reality and honesty, not childish mudslinging, just look at this particular discussion and my points are made. If anyone wants to discuss or berate me for writing this Rather than hurting Goldbay's image further email me privately at Mineral-man@hotmail.com
Sincerely,
Gino The Canadian (lol)
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