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Most forums are either regionally specific or catagorically specific, or both. TFP is neither. Either or both of those lend themselves better to a trading forum, out of neccessity (you either are in the same area and can trade in person, or you are trading rare community-specific commodities.)
In the first case, it's mostly cash transactions, in the second case, the risk is mitigated by the necessity of a small community spread thin---where else are you going to find the vintage 1964 Wing Wang Widget that you need to complete your collection for sale at a reasonable price? Or a hard-to-find part to replace the one your broke in your transmorgrifier?
However, TFP is only tied together by...well...TFP. What would distinguish a Tilted trading forum from a gimped version of ebay/ubid/amazon/etc? If I have a lot of something, I'm going to list it for sale on a topically specific forum. If I'm looking for something specific, I'll go to that item's specific forums (or ebay/craigslist).
Even leaving moral considerations asside, I predict Tilted Thrift Store would just turn into a forum with many threads with 0 replies except the original posters's Bumps. There are already many ways to buy and sell things on the internet, I don't see any reason to add another one.
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