Thread: Buy and Sell section

Originally Posted by canross

What about a time delay and X number posts before using the Buy and Sell? Other large forums started doing as they've become popular. It removes the scammers since they're usually in for a quick buck and seldom have much follow through, and usually in that time people who are going to become active in the forum start to contribute, while those that weren't going to contribute leave. Usually in that time they also learn the forum rules, since every forum is has its own unique social rules, and even is unique in how it operates. Since a forum is more at risk from sh*tty members poisoning the environment than having low numbers of new members, it should help moderate between quantity of new members and quality of new members.

A month delay and 5-10 posts is usually the standard, but 3 months is used when they've had issues with scammers.

I don't know what admin can do but this makes the most sense. My main issue is when you come online and miss a post from @ryansonghurst or the likes that's a real deal. And some guy with 1 post has taken the deal. Its a little shit as you know they joined to get the deal and likely won't contribute again except for the buy sell. Maybe I'm wrong but I think the page usually has everyone putting up very reasonable prices compared to the likes of trademe if they want a quick deal or a fair one if they need the money and are happy to sit on it for awhile. Grinds my gears a bit when someone has 10 posts and 1s and intro and the next 5 are in buy and sell threads. Doing this means you can't get an idea on the type of person you are dealing with and we don't have the same protections as the yellowsite in terms of being ripped off etc (even if it's marginal protections at most).
When there's a deal here to long time members chances are it will pop back up here at the same price down the line instead of going on trademe for double the price like I've seen pretty often.