Re: New Rules for the sale/trade forum - must read!
These new rules are being put in place to try to help protect the community as a whole.
We do not have to have a Commerce section but Dave kindly lets us.
We never used to have rules but as the hobby we all share has changed, so this forum has to,if only to try and help and protect us all.
Ok, I'll try answer a few things...try
The Comments issue is still under discussion on how best to implement it so you can please hold on for full answers to that one.
Flaming of any member in ANY thread across the board, be it a personal attack, vulgararity or just plain insulting, will not be tolerated. The posts will be removed and action may be taken against the posting member.
The fixed price listing is simply to post a price in your thread that you would like to get for your item. we have seen recently a number of threads increase that say 'make offers' or try and create a bidding war between potential buyers.This is not eBay. A seller knows what they want for their item so just list it. If a potential buyer pm's you with another offer, you can take it from there, but the intitial post has to have a set price. It is certainly not 'an intent to price fix'.
Scalping has been a problem for example when people have been advertising 'pre-orders' for sale with an asking price several hundred $$/££ above retail,so hopefully with the new rule of NO PRE-ORDER SALES, this
may not be such of a big problem.
If a seller wants inflated higher than eBay prices, wants to auction items or wants to create a bidding war then their best bet is Ebay. The last 2 (auction/bidding war) formats are no longer allowed here and a higher price simply will not sell here, in most cases at least.
There are on occasion members who will offer an item at below its current marketed value which is very kind and generous.However we cannot ensure that,although it does happen, those days are not as frequent as they were, so again we have to adapt also to try and help everyone involved.
Hence the new rules.
This is primararily a collectors forum, a place we all come to discuss our hobby, meet like minded individuals who share in our passion of these collectables.
If we are lucky maybe we will find something in commerce that we were looking for but I will re-iterate what Dave said which I think is paramount:
This Forum is a priviledge, not a right.
Hope this helps a little
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