I'm pretty happy with the rules the way they are. I suspect that without the prohibition of selling in the forums we would be overrun with hucksters to the point that it would be hard to find a post you wanted to read. I think e-Bay is a good example of this. Look at how much chaff you have to wade through sometimes to find something even in a fairly narrow search. I think the Swap Meet is pretty good for an on line classified. I have bought and sold a little bit on it, but it never will compete with e-Bay because of the sheer size of e-Bay. Still, I can think of a few improvements that would be nice to have on the Swap Meet:
1)Integrate the Swap Meet with the forums- same usernames and passwords
2) Add sub-classifications such as year and type of parts to speed searching.
3) larger images or the ability to display off-site images.
I'm sure this is much easier (and cheaper) said than done. For what it costs to use, I'm quite satisfied with it the way it is.
I've never felt the need to come here and try and advertise my e-Bay auctions here, but maybe next batch of truck parts I list will have "Stovebolt" in the title. Now if we all did that, all our fellow e-Bay junkies here on the Stovebolt Page could do a simple word search and find what their fellow Stovebolters had on auction.
