Small ads service - We need your opinion
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Dear everyone,
We are currently working on the new small ads service.
We would appreciate your opinion concerning this service (whose features are explained below) and we would like to know what categories will interest you (with exception for cars, appliances, etc. which are obviously too voluminous to be sent to the other part of the world)
These categories needs to have something to do with penpalling.
The service will work like this :
Each member will be able to sell or swap items (or services, such as : scrapbooking).
Swapping won't need any intermediary between members. We will just intervene in the first steps, that is :
1/ A member (called B-member) is interested in an item offered by an A-member (e.g.: stamps),
2/ He/she makes a swap offer : "your stamps in exchange for postcards from my country". If that offer is accepted by the A-member, the B-member is notified and both members exchange their addresses with each other and can proceed forward with the swap. A rating system (Ebay-style) will be set up as well as a "seller/swapper" account for each member.
Adding a swap ad will cost either 1€ or you can use your rewarding points instead. This way everyone can participate.
As for selling here are the different steps :
1/ an A-member sells an item on the site and sets a price of his/her choice
2/ a B-member wants to buy that item, he/she pays by sending money to our PayPal account.
3/ when we receive the money the A-member sends the item to the buyer and we credit the money onto the A-member's Penpal Tradition account (that is the seller's) as "earnings"
4/ we will redeem your earnings for money when your account balance reaches 15€ (you can convert it here to your currency). Payments will be made to your PayPal account (safe and fast method of payment), by french bank cheque, or by bank transfer if you live in Belgium.
Of course you will be able to use your earnings on the site to submit ads.
Adding a item for sale will cost either 1€ or you can use your rewarding points instead.
We will take 10% off the amount of the transaction. So if you sell an item for 20€, your earning will be 18€.
I'll keep you posted for further information. 
Great, thanks for your comment. I think some artists may eventually be able to sell their hand made items (stationeries, etc.) to Penpal Tradition members for their correspondence needs through the small ads service but they won't need to be members though. This will help unknown artists in some way.
But members will also be able to swap or sell to each other within the club. Maybe we will discover some nice artists this way ! I'm sure many members have some hidden talents
United States - posted on 19/10/2008 to 22h48
Hi-
I understand, but if anyone who doesnot have the access to euros or paypal on a credit card; well how will they pay? I really would like people to swap stamps with me- so then how do I do this as I only have United states dollars and if I try to use any of my credit cards, it tells me that my paypal account has been locked as someone years ago from some foriegn country got my information(do not know how) and now I have no paypal anymore.
In my opinion, this may not be such a good idea.
Kathleen
Netherlands - posted on 20/10/2008 to 16h51
greetings from a dutch-girl
I have a question of the moderators on this small ad thing-
How many points is it going to cost to hold a swap?
Kathleen