Have voted no.
But I do understand where stocky is coming from.
I would think to difficult to administer etc.
But with reason call them out "YES".
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Have voted no.
But I do understand where stocky is coming from.
I would think to difficult to administer etc.
But with reason call them out "YES".
you have mis read what has been said.......folks arent saying scalping is ok.......more that we all grown ups and if you silly enough to buy something way over priced...more fool you.
one thing trademe has done.........its normally first port of call to see what current price for item is
Ive seen plenty of sales on here,and thought to self...man thats cheap...very few way over priced and only one from memory with silly claims of guns ability,and it was called out as BS statement.
Ffs we are already living in a nanny state without having it permeate in our forum
Yep, a bunch of homos alright.
We may as well ask Cindy to moderate on here for us and tell us how we can and can’t roll.
there are some fucking awesome dudes on here and I hate to think that scumbags trying to inflate prices (take advantage of peoples desperation to enrich themselves) will drive them away/replace them/come join their scumbag friends here
tattoo parlors and bars use the same trick for not becoming the place that the white supremisists/nazi hang out
move them on otherwise this will be the place where they all come to roost
and then you are swimming in them because no one wants to hang out at the nazi bar
I saw it slowly happen on the old forum where it just got more and more toxic that I stopped going to it
plenty of ability to scalp on trademe and get screwed with fees but the listing here is free and really do you want to be encouraging more scumbag shit or less
Let them do what they want i say.
Buf it does fuck me off when I offer a great deal somone buys it then you see it on trade me for $500 more the next day, it only fucks me as they clearly never wanted it and some other forum member missed out on a great deal.
Lesson I no longer sell to those people.
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Cheers Brad thanks for showing some people how to disagree with respects.
I partially agree and I just proposed the change as I cringe at the semi immoral posts too. I'm not like this government etc in that I actually asked people I didn't just change it and ignore what people think I just thought of a potential solution and posted it. I'm actually starting to agree that maybe our self policing is pretty good and why go further but the suggestion was made and I don't regret making it.
I've also brought a few items not quite as described including one that also had to be warrantied before I could use it that member has posts in this thread in support of scalping.
I've seen items snapped up off here end up on trademe within a week at double the price.
I've stopped replying to this post for the most part as all I did was make a suggestion debate my side which many people disagree with obviously which is alright. But there's a brigade of men with there heads up there arses that believe that all change is bad and instantly react to any change or proposal of a change in a toxic manner. I appreciate when someone disagrees with me and does so with some level of respect but when comments like "a bunch of homos" pop up. These same people bitch about the forum being ruined but seriously need to look in the mirror as they are just doing exactly what all the "leftys" they so hate are doing but the other way around. It's not that hard to disagree and not be a c@*t.
To all those that don't care that's fine I don't mind it was just a suggestion I didn't think it would be that hard as we already self police fairly well in terms of new members just using buy sell or people asking stupid prices.
Cheers posts like yours helping out members with better deals are kind of what I was aiming to protect with the idea not restrict the other members that have taken this as a personal attack on there rights.
Anyway I'm back out on this thread again unless it calms to a semi reasonable discussion.
@MarkN I have read through the posts a second time. I do not think anyone truely agrees with scalping being acceptable or fair practise. I certainly do not think scalping is acceptable. My opinion to disagree with a ban are for practicality reasons- I dont see much if any scalping on here. So addressing it with a ban would be like Labour banning the use of full auto rifles....
In all honesty, if we saw an increase in scalping on here, I suspect the entire buy / sell would disappear rather than have the Mods select what is fair and not......
I thought scalping was buying up supply with the knowledge that a shortage would be created / coming, that the scalper could take advantage of.
Buying here with the intension of re-selling with an excessive margin, whilst distasteful and not something I admire is still nothing compared to the outright dishonest activities we see from businesses everyday. Supermarkets, clothing retailers, car parts dealers all guilty of excessive margins. Even some tradespeople go to a supplier, drive to a customer fit the parts and add 100%. Put them all in prison !!
100 rounds of factory 270 just sold on here at VERY cheap price.......pretty typical sale if you ask me.... most rifles or shotguns are at a fair market price if not BELOW ,anyone care to take bet how long any lower tier leupold scope lasts up for sale??? 10minutes seems to be the most as of late..... people arent stupid and wont allow them selves to be ripped off.
99% of forum members are decent folks...and the other 1% go onto ignore list so you dont see their for sale stuff anyway.....