Originally posted by: coldcut
Is the community big? I can't stand the pop-ups on the site. How active is it?
Well, the community used to be about 1300-1400, but the guy recently decided to give a 4 week free trial period to new users, and so now the community is about 4800. So basically there are probably about 1400 users, and the rest are currently trying out their trial period.
1400 probably sounds small, but it hasn't stopped me from getting good trades. I usually do about 2 trades per month, which basically saves me about $80-90 on games.
As for the pop-ups, yes, they suck ass, but they go away (along with all the other ads) if you subscribe.
I suggest giving the 4 week trial a go if you haven't already, and see if you like it. As for how active the site is, I don't know if you can see the site stats if you're not subscribed, but here they are:
4,897 active users (signed on in the last 2 months)
3,604 (74%) of those users have listings
2,752 (56%) of those users have at least one trade
4,390 (90%) of those users are subscribers
189,896 Games
15,655 Music listings
30,884 Movies
7,751 Books
88,544 confirmed trades since October 20, 1997 (5.7 years ago)
52 confirmed trades in last 24 hours
87 pending trades in last 24 hours
150 forum topics in last 24 hours
107,644 total forum topics
1,565 forum posts in last 24 hours
1,288,416 total forum posts
There are 4,495 subscribers . and 17 gold subscribers .
3,133 of these are trial subscriptions with a total of 163.56 years of trial subscription time.
There are 112 frozen subscriptions with a total of 38.55 years of frozen subscription time.
There is a total of 771.31 years worth of active subscription time for all subscribers combined. That's 0.17 years per subscriber.
let me know what you think if you try it
1,348 total pending trades