A lot of other forums I have been on have pretty tight rules about posts on For Sale threads. In general, the thread for something for sale is limited to questions about the product being sold by an interested buyer. Not someone trolling or just trying to gank a thread for the fun of it. Those rules work very well and will increase the likelihood of people wanting to sell things on your forum. One forum I frequent is northeastshooters.com and they have strict rules about this. You can also see a lot of commerce gets completed on those forums because people know they can rely on their thread being kept to the purpose at hand...to sell their item and that they won't have to fend off people badmouthing the price, the product or whatever. Especially when those people have NO intention of buying the product. It is easy to moderate as it is a simple rule to follow.

This just happened to me on your forums and I have to admit my response to those people wasn't exactly measured. Your moderator couldn't do anything about it and didn't seem inclined to do anything about it if he could. Granted, my response wasn't "nice", but he can correct me AND take care of my legitimate complaint if he wanted.


Just a suggestion.

STAC

This could be an interesting debate.

I personally like the fact that we can make comments about sales negative or positive. If someone is trying to sell something to our members that is significantly overpriced, damaged, bad, etc...I hope someone can speak up and warn them off. This is a forum, not ebay or the classified ads, people should expect commentary on anything they post.

Just my opinion and not meant to be a reflection on your particular ad. And, of course I would follow any rule the mods decide on, but my vote would be leave it as is and give a warning to the sellers that you will not always get positive comments.

I agree 100% with the need to redo the for sale threads on this forum. I haven't tried to sell anything on this forum yet, however there almost always is some moron giving their personal opinion, usually not to the benefit of the seller, on what they think something is worth. On my KTM and Dodge forums, they have the "for sale" threads and have none of the problems I've seen here. We list our items for sale, then the buyer will pm the seller and it works great! Just trying to give some constructive criticism to help maintain the integrity of the forum.

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I also agree 100%, and I've commented about this before, when someone was selling an accessory. People do not need to poison some one else's for sale thread by commenting on the price. A simple PM is the POLITE way to address this. People who have NO intention of actually EVER PURCHASING the item should in particular mind their own business.
And there are certain members who make a habit of this and should I feel should be repremanded by the moderator,(privately of course) so that they will hopefully stop.

Mark

The threads should not show up on the front page. It takes up space and is free advertising. The for sale items should be in the classified section and stay there. I agree with Robjeep 100%. Its a forum not ebay.

I gave my opinion on a product once on this site and let me tell you between PM's (NOT NICE) and commentary I second guessed myself and removed everything I wrote. Normally not my style. Now I ride in the rain once and the blinkers fill with water and now don't work. I wish I would have left it all up there. Crap. I was also told that the new ad would say "that it will come with all the parts" and it still doesn't a month later. Not even a description of what you will need. Again Crap.. Posts need to be moderated by the members not just a moderaters. If the moderaters did it all there login would be Hugo chavez. Were a community and I will never erase anything I write again so seller beware!! This community is watching..

i also agree with robjeep a post is made for something used that is priced higher than a new one and then told its a great deal no one in the area has them yata yata! then get pissed because someone says something thats funny and if you didnt know most if not all on this forum already own 09's if no one it the NE area has one then you should list it local it would already be sold and we would not be having this discussion. this is a great forum with great people so beating up the moderators will do what?
Chris

A forum is for freedom of speech. What good is a forum if it only talks about positives and not what the thread placer considers negative? If you want to sell something and don't want comments then place a classified ad or run it on eBay. Let's not forget what a forum is for. I applaud the moderators of this great site for remembering that this is a forum.

This has already been covered as I said earlier, see this thread.

And guess who started that one off by commenting on something for sale that he had NO itention of buying. Same guy of course...apparently he enjoys trying to screw up another forum members sale.

www.starvmax.com/index.php?option=com_ku...2&id=31530#31568

If you look through the for sale forum 90+% don't have a single negative comment. I would suggest if that is a problem with a seller it may be an issue on their end. I would also say that the classified ad forum is likely not set up to take advantage of starvmax members by sellers. And, as long as the rules stay as they are that probably will not happen.

Either way a definitive answer by FX would be nice. That way the issue is settled and which ever way it falls we will live with it.

Here is FX's response from the other thread. I have shamelessly copied it for your viewing pleasure. He is probably on a plane coming back Stateside from across the pond.


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Here is a solution I'd like to offer:

If somebody wants to post up in the classifieds section and does not want replies on it, please contact one of the moderators to have the thread locked. It will be there and visible, but others wont be able to comment on it.

I understand there are two side to this. However I too believe that between private parties the price should be negotiated on a 1:1 basis unless it is an auction format, in which case you should put it on eBay and post a link here.

That's different with a business that sells stuff. However businesses are not allowed to post in our classifieds section. If they become a vendor or site sponsor, they have a vendor section to post their announcements and product pricing.

Hope this help!

fxstein
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Cheers'