Buy/Sell Rule...

[ChristopherCoy]

Why dont we have a rule of sorts that says you have to have XX amount of posts before you can post in the buy/sell area? It looks like a lot of folks are simply joining lately, just to sell something.

[Hanky]

Used to be 25 p min. however the Boss man reworked it for 0 p. I think were oporating on a cavet emptor thingy.

[PeteQ]

At one time there was a 25 post rule, however like the 5 minuted post edit limit, it has gone the way of the dinosaur. The post count spurned some interesting attempts and a greater discussion of the "spirit" of the rule vs letter of the law.

http://www.texasphotoforum.com/forum...-buy-sell.html

http://www.texasphotoforum.com/forum...-25-posts.html

[ChristopherCoy]

ugh.... good lord, should've known.

[KJ Smith]

You don't have to buy from them....


As with any transaction it is buyer beware.

[ChristopherCoy]

Originally Posted by KJ Smith

You don't have to buy from them....


As with any transaction it is buyer beware.

I know. I just dont think that it is unfair that we are all here usually daily, contributing information, taking part in discussion, supporting one another (mostly), and paying our premium memberships etc.... and they just fly in one day, register for free, and hawk their wares - never to be heard from again.

[thehatguy]

I just dont think that it is unfair

If it isn't unfair, then you're good, right?

John

[Abel]

when we had the 25 post rule new peeps would make bogus posts in order to get their count up and it took us mods time to police it and delete those cheesy one word "cool" type posts.

when a new member makes a listing as their first post they dont realize that our members are pretty smart and usually wont respond or buy something from someone that has no post history and such... so it doesnt really matter...

these new members that come in just to sell something is still giving back to TPF in one way... they are NOW registered members and I can contact them via newsletters, pms, emails and such to promote the site. this is something that i can not do to people that havent registered since i have no contact info for them