Buy & Sell?

[Greg_Nuspel]

Buy and sell can work, but everything has to be totally above board. I have seen where someone misunderstands something and hard feeling sour the forum. Other forums allow posting of 'now on ebay' announcements since it then takes it to a regulated ecommerce site. So I am on the fence reflecting my non-practicing agnostic decision making.

[tomorrowstreasures]

Buy and sell can work, but everything has to be totally above board. I have seen where someone misunderstands something and hard feeling sour the forum. Other forums allow posting of 'now on ebay' announcements since it then takes it to a regulated ecommerce site. So I am on the fence reflecting my non-practicing agnostic decision making.

I like Greg's idea.

[Marko]

We thought about making them have x amount of posts first etc but really what's the point? They'd only get in and make useless comments to fill their quota and qualify to sell anyhow.

In the end, the For Sale sections (I call them Trading Posts with For Sale and Wanted to Buy sections within) to be very important features on my sites.

I like the X number of posts thing....what about something like 25 posts or 50 posts. I think (hope) that would discourage a potential spammer. Plus if they are posting stupid posts JUST to raise the postcount, as Admin, I can delete these types of spammers.

We could ALSO make it so the member has to be a member for X number of days.

At the end of the day - if this is a service to the members of this forum, I'm all for it, so long as we can plan for potential abuses.

Opinions on this?

many thanks!

[Greg_Nuspel]

Marko,

This sounds good, if it is easy to implement and doesn't require too much work on your part. I can't see too much going on in this area but you never know.

[hodaka]

I like the idea of buy/sell, for sure. On the many other forums that I frequent, I find things like a minimum post and the no-comments, just PM work good.

[jjeling]

well, we will have to be careful. I think MA will be the first one trying to sell something, and Im sure it will not be any photography equipment, rather himself......

[Mad Aussie]

well, we will have to be careful. I think MA will be the first one trying to sell something, and Im sure it will not be any photography equipment, rather himself......

No way!! I know you'd out bid the girls for me!

[casil403]

well, we will have to be careful. I think MA will be the first one trying to sell something, and Im sure it will not be any photography equipment, rather himself......

I bid ! ooh! ooh! pick me! pick me!

[Marko]

Hi members,

The Buy sell forum is a bit premature at this point...so I'm deleting the forum, but can reinstate it easily at any time.

Thx!
Marko