Yikes. These sites always start off listing the big cities so that the MILLIONS of people who live outside these cities come to the site once and never return.

Yikes. These sites always start off listing the big cities so that the MILLIONS of people who live outside these cities come to the site once and never return. We even get a real bitter taste in our mouth. You've already shown your hand. It's not about community, people, or the success of your traders, it's about you being big and YOU making money. Otherwise, my little town would be listed. Heck you could have simply downloaded a zip code database with all city names and started with that. Even then you'd be doing better in my eyes. Why doesn't it know where I am when I get there? GeoIP stuff is pretty darn simple to implement these days. Anyway, I can only see these sites working by starting micro, and VERY SLOWLY going big. Start with just your neighborhood or apartment complex. Then, branch it out to a slightly larger yet still narrow community around you, and let it bleed into your town from there. Then start adding adjoining cities, and THEN the big cities, and THEN the small communities as they start to beg for your services. These are just my own opinions. I actually don't believe the site will work at all, but there's my 2 cents.