I couldn't agree more!
Foreign workers are coming in and undercutting everyone and then do a brutal job, making the entire forum look bad, pushing out high end service providers.
You can take a look at any niche that has popped up on this forum.
I was the first to sell micro niche sites on here, 5 years ago.
I was also the first to sell authority sites on here, probably 3 years ago now.
I was also the first keyword tool on here.
I was also one of the first to sell expired domains, last summer.
Most recently, the expired domain market has went down, like others did, as people come in driving the price to he ground, in a race to the bottom. The higher end service providers on here cannot compete with those prices with the cost of time and money they invest in their products. Personally, I've spent hundreds of hours working, and then constantly tweaking my expired domain system, I'd say 200 hours. Say my coding is worth $25/hour. How the heck is someone supposed to make $5000 or more when people are charging like $10 a domain, or $5 I think I saw. I'm not the only service provider with this issue, so don't treat it as so.
Top service providers like Leith, BassTrackerBoats, Luka, etc (I'm not speaking for them, just using them as an example) would make more money when their prices are not undercut and they get more sales. This money would spent on ads, etc. These days, there are such a small amount of services providers that make the kind of money to justify buying ads. I don't check the marketplace much anymore, so I'm not even sure if these guys sell here anymore.
If it was $250 to list a thread, and they were thoroughly tested, the quality would be so high of these providers, like it used to be in 2010 when almost no mod wanted to approve a thread.
I think I covered the pros for both the buyers, the sellers and the ownership of the forum. The barrier of entry has to change. If you don't want to 10x the price, maybe require all sellers to have proven their knowledge by writing threads in their forum section of interest to prove they know what they are talking about.
