I noticed something about the guild image.

It specifically says, "Your one stop game-item selling spot"

If you contrast that with the fact this is a private guild, that means the majority of the members in the guild are going to be sellers, and non-members can't see the forum, correct?

Just observing, if you check, say, this forum...

http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewforum.php?f=375551

Almost all the posters are sellers. Given, there'll still be activity because people who sell bugs may want to buy tickets, etc, I think that if we're going to get real business we need to go one of two ways:
(a) Attempt to get frequent GI buyers as members as well
(b) Make the forum public, so as to allow the general public to use the board as an advanced version of the already existing item sales boards.