Peter and Team

What an excellent idea. I think the simplify homepage message has been chased by several others, so I won't add fuel to that fire. Equally, the scrolling T+C's with an easy accept.

What I'd suggest however is to step back from forcing people to register before they can search or suggest. Much as you need the information... they don't need to provide. It needs to be a 2 way process, so I'd open this up by making search and submit on the home page. There are only 3 options you need. (the third is what this site is about). Let people search based on their postcode. (enter your postcode to find items local to you). Equally submit your junk to our database. (first click is postcode, which opens up the type of junk drop down list and a note 'step 2 of 3'). Only then do you ask for registration (one time only if cookie accepted). Rationale is simple, if you're over half way through already, it's harder to quit.

Look at commerical travel bookers... their homepage asks for location and date with a submit button... and clicking submit opens the screen where the remainder of essential information is provided.

Finally, take the PR off the front page. It's certainly something to be proud of - but isn't relevent to the browsing audience who want to know what you do and what stuff is available. certainly hae a journalist resources area linked in the nav bar... and one that highlights uses for junk too, maybe linking to case studies..

It's really such a great idea - could it be government grant backed.... would your local council support it ?