Great idea, the gun swap site!!
But charging when armslist is free is going to be a tough sell, even if 500 coin is only equal to a US nickel. Those swapping in here will be willing to do it, but that's because they're invested in the coin. The biggest problem I foresee with outsiders is, most people outside here (not miners) are not going to be willing to, or knowledgeable enough to, do the conf file add to the wallet, you'll need to add it to the download/install package. Then they need to sign up at an exchange, buy some bitcoin, then buy guncoin to place the ad. You should really consider an online wallet system, then people don't have to install anything. Just signup and give a CC #. Have links to the offline wallet and detailed instructions on how easily it's installed, along with a link to a monthly updated blockchain to keep sync time from being stupid slow.
Fix the https thing, naturally...
Definitely lets get some ads on there from peeps in here.. I'm mulling over some stuff to list, even though I wasn't planning on selling anything. (gotta be careful though, I live in NY, can't buy or sell a lot of stuff here through classifieds, it's gotta go through an FFL. aka: no mags bigger than 10 rounds (at all even through an FFL), no ammo, no lowers, no anything with a serial #, etc, etc, etc...)
And a warning, you REALLY need to consider this before going public... Armslist has had a lawsuit filed against them, from a firearm that was sold via their site being used in a crime. It was eventually dismissed, but if there wasn't some legal and financial support, someone would have lost their shirt, and their site. Read more here -
http://www.armslistlegaldefensefund.com/?_escaped_fragment_=our-case/ctvq#!our-case/ctvq
Some additional ideas for the swap site:
Maybe if you had the ads on other sites offer to give away 10 free guncoin to random people that check it out. I'd donate several thousand coin for that. If they don't win the 10 free, they can still do the faucet. And you can send out monthly reminders of the coin balance to the users at the email address they sign up with, this will keep reminding peeps about guncoin.
Have guncoin stuff to sell on the site. Shirts, mugs, window stickers, and gun cases that people can buy. If you offer guncoin gear buyers who pay with USD, 100 coin per purchase off the gun site, it will get coin into the hands of even more people. (and even more people to remind that they own guncoin)
All good ideas and we appreciate the feedback - that is what we were looking for. Running an ad site is not really our top priority, but it is an important step in keeping our community active and introducing GUN to the outside world. We have our initial cut a Users Guide coming out in the next day or so - that should help educate newbies to some degree and at least give them a reference to get them started and better understand what we are doing here.
We do appreciate your taking the time to review GuncoinAds.com and populate it with ads. I think services such as Gun show listing, FFLs are pretty easy to get listed. This is the most powerful classified ad script that we could find and is very very flexible as to what we can do with it. You will notice that it includes both Buy and Sell sections for every category. Thought that would help generate more ads.
In regards to the legalities of the site, while we were not aware of the Armslist lawsuit, etc., we are very aware of the legal ramifications of a site like this. We think our Terms of Service is pretty clear on this. It may be a road block to such things in the future, but we know it will not totally shut down a lawsuit. One option, although not a god choice, would be just to not list firearms of any type on the site. While that solves about 90% of the legal issues, it kind of defeats the purpose of what we are trying to do here. So for now, very stiff Terms up front may be the best that we can do.
As you go through and use the site, please make notes of what else might be needed. We may be able to add those easily. If there is extra coding and cost concerned, it might take a while. Our goal with it is not to make money, just to keep the GUN moving around and gain GUN some more visibility. Again, we appreciate you feedback and support.