Posts Made By: William Finney

I really have liked the classified format of Astromart and now as I am just starting to be able to make some purchases I am worried that everyone will migrate to the auction format, I know I will always be outbid then....

I have been interested in amateur astronomy for a little over 3 years now. I have found that Astromart simply seems to be the only "up to date" place to find information about events and suppliers on line. I am not sure however that I would be willing to pay $12/yr. for access to this site, I would simply more likely give up amateur astronomy as a hobby.

I understand that bandwidth, servers and time spent maintaining the site are all expensive, and I don’t feel that anyone should work without being compensated. This said the current site is very nice (complex, many features). If the time and expense are too great for a site as large as this one maybe it would be better to focus on the "swap" side of the site and not focus so much on the other content.

I have tried to purchase items on a few occasions to only find out that they were sold within 10 minutes of the posting and the ad not yet removed and I have been frustrated that there isn’t a convenient way to pay securely online, but I have accepted this as all part of a "non-commercial" site.

Recently I haven’t had very much money for anything, and my involvement is more wish lists and getting to see what I might want if I had money. If I had to pay...I’d have to leave.

Thanks.