We want your ideas!

[BankerA]

You might want to look at accepting donations for those who wish to contribute as the forum grows. Another forum I frequent listed members vs supporting members. Just a thought. I personally like to finacially support places of interest to me to keep them going!

[Headhunter 13]

Also the tee shirts and such can help pay the expenses here as well.

[Forced Outage]

Rifle raffles work well too. Recently there was a raffle on another site I frequent, they made enough money to cover cost of rifle and pay site fees and software upgrades for 2 years. All the owner does is disclose the costs of operation *hosting, tech support, etc.* every couple of months to show where the money is going. Everyone buys tickets during a set period of time, when time is met and ticket purchases are stopped, then a board is created with numbers. Board *jpg format* is posted with numbered blocks and members choose numbers on a first come first serve basis. After all blocks are filled, the owner did a live video feed of pulling a number and the winner was declared. Great success really. There were even *door prizes* so to speak. Someone donated a bayonet, another a bipod, etc. Number was pulled for each of those as well. The members were happy to donate to the cause and have a chance to win a prize as well. If ya would like more info on this and how it was put together, etc. just gimme a yell.

[danp]

All great ideas guys, the raffle would actually be extremely easy since we're all in the same state. T-Shirts I want to do just because it would be fun, but using them to ofset the costs of maintaining the site isn't a bad idea.

When it really comes down to it I created this website because I wanted a resource for PA gun owners, so I was planning on just running it out of pocket, but if members want to help out that would be awesome. I'll start brainstorming the idea.

[Forced Outage]

could you make a forum in the classifieds section for an "Everything else"?

Just incase the fellow members might be looking for hmmmm maybe a drill press, a truck, selling either of those etc. to fund those NFA purchases. lol

[danp]

Originally Posted by Forced Outage

could you make a forum in the classifieds section for an "Everything else"?

Just incase the fellow members might be looking for hmmmm maybe a drill press, a truck, selling either of those etc. to fund those NFA purchases. lol

Awesome idea, I'll set it up now.

[bric2000]

Originally Posted by 762xIan

How about an Ammo/reloading section?

We can keep everyone up to date on ammo, local prices at the many vendors and an area for those of us who reload to discuss.

+1 - this is always a good one.

[bric2000]

Originally Posted by Headhunter 13

Also the tee shirts and such can help pay the expenses here as well.

Good advertising too!

[doug]

there aren't really any hosting expenses, as this forum is hosted for Free on a dedicated Unix server at ServerCentral.

though the vBulletin license wasn't free, I don't really think that the PAFOA is a profit thing.. It's more about having a useful community of firearm enthusiasts who care about political issues in the State of Pennsylvania.

It's also about having fun, and sharing information and ideas.. and maybe some GUN PORN!

[BillB]

How about a "rimfire" section?

Regards Bill