Have you heard of HardMart?

[MotionMan]

On the account I ONLY use for Heat, I got the following e-mail:

This is an invitation to join HardMart.com , a new user to user computer trading community. On HardMart you can talk about hardware, sell, buy and trade hardware with other members of the board.

What's New in HardMart?!

Geographic Targeting: Users can only view posts from other users located in the same country based upon the users choice upon registration. This enhances the searching capability for desired items and facilitates the trading boundaries between users.

User to User Trading community: HardMart has NO interest collecting any percentage from any running deal(s) from any user(s), this service is provided for users by users and to users.

Open Community: For users to say their opinion about the posted prices, item quality and finally traders reviewing.

Simple Graphical User Interface: HardMart Team will do its best to keep the forums always neat and to the point, no additional unnecessary topics/titles will be added, only helpful guidelines enhancing the user to user trading system and buyersguides through the available best deals, period.

Trading History Reserved: A user with a good trading history on any trading channel ebay/heatware/trademe/etc shall not worry about building a new reputation from scratch when applying his registration form, just PM any of the administrators regarding this and it ll just take as long as it requires to prove the ownership of the trust worthy account.

iTrader: For the ease of search and trading, we took advantage of iTrader. It is simply the easy to use tool for finding customers or sellers for whatever you desire to sell or buy from the whole list of members of the forums, including international traders.

Interactive Moderation: Users are free anytime to send any of our moderators OR administrators any messages regarding any issue related to the forums rule and privileges.

You are kindly invited to join our commuinty.

Anyone ever heard of this?

Thoughts?

MotionMan

 

[RichardE]

It has 20 threads...total..

 

[MotionMan]

I guess not.

MotionMan

 

[Saint Nick]

i got invited, too, just today.

 

[lightpants]

I was invited a month ago, I joined and posted a for sale item. It sold here. I didn't get any interest from potential buyers over there.

It is a good idea, an invite-only for sale/ trade forum, but I think they will have a hard time getting enough people to join to make it a place where people would want to sell or buy exclusively.

 

[NicePants42]

I was also wondering this, but after visiting the site, it looks like it has quite a way to go in order to get useful volume. I think AT and H have things pretty much covered, and invite-only seems pretty pointless when we can just check heatware.

 

[SirChadwick]

I was also just invited today... no need for hardmart just yet. AT suits my needs.

 

[Mellman]

yeah... i like the idea, but the invite only limits your exposure. and if I am selling i'll sell to anyone so long as they pay first.
-matt