Not sure where I went wrong

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Just looking for suggestions. I tried to create a website where everyone could put their ball pythons up for sale, that would be clean and easy to use. No forums, organized by morph, and good quality pics, all in the same format. So far NO ONE has sent me their pics. I'm not sending this out to recruit people, but trying to get some constructive criticism. Is it the Ads by Google? Because I can remove that. I'm not looking to make money off this at all. I put a few of my own collection up at extremely high prices, just to show what the site would look like. Do you think people are getting put off by this? I thought it would actually encourage people to put their snakes on there, because by comparrison, they would be extremely cheap. Any suggestions would be very helpful. Thank you.

I can appreciate what you are trying to do, but think about it this way... You are trying to penetrate a market where there are already established websites for this very thing. I would bet the majority of the market goes to one of three websites already, so there is no compelling reason for anyone to go elsewhere.