Originally Posted by
AndyP & Lenore
I know what you mean. We currently have 940 registered members with 300 active members. It's been as high IIRC as 2,000 registered members but The Gismo Man keeps the membership list trimmed of inactive members.
To be honest, over the past five years, the site hasn't really grown much at all. Membership and in particular active membership is a dynamic term; each new and active member we get this week often ends up with a previously active member becoming less active. For any number of reasons, but most likely that they simply sold their MINI.
There's no doubt as more and more MINI's are sold, there's the scope for further site growth, but, honestly, I don;t see it reaching into the thousands.
As for eBay disillusionment - already there for me. Their fees now make it almost impossible to make decent money out of eBay. And the reliability of who you're buying from can be rather hit or miss. I buy from eBay with great trepidation these days and I hardly sell anything on there at all.
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