[cakley]

Not sure if this is Ok to post. If not I'll delete it.

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I guess I'll put the parts on ebay, in a few days.

 

[GenTarkin]

yeah I vote that there be a Insights for sale section and parts section in this forum =) would be cool!

 

[b1shmu63]

It would make it easier to find parts for our Insights.

 

[b1shmu63]

It would make it easier to find parts for our Insights.

 

[bfivelover]

Items for sale should be here, but in a separate catagory, and the site should get a percentage of the sale.

 

[dan]

Hi folks-

I agree it would make it easier to find parts. But I would hate to see this place turn into another eBay. I support the decision to keep it advertising clear. Think how many dealers would jump at the chance for free listings. If it were not free then than a whole monitoring/billing dept would have to be set up. Personally, I think it would be great for members like cakely to be able to sell unique and hard to find parts, but where does the line get drawn the line to keep J.C.Whitney out?

 

[cakley]

Its pretty common for car forums to have a classified section. Normally broken down by private sellers/item in one section and paying adverts in another section.

I'll delete all the stuff I had for sale. Just adds to the reason why I sold my Insight. Parts are so far and few and will only get harder to find.

 

[dan]

Hi cakley-

I was only putting in my 2 cents. Please don’t pull your stuff ‘cause I complained! Nowhere here does it say that this place is run by consensus. I feel that the decision is up to the administrators. Wait for a ruling from them.

Keep us posted on your TDI!

 

[Tim Maddux]

According to forum rule #2 it is not ok to post for-sale items here of any kind:

"2. ADVERTISING of any kind is strictly prohibited. Posts that advertise a product, service or anything else (yes, even the sale of your Insight) will be subject to deletion. If you are unsure whether your post will be considered advertising, please contact one of the moderators prior to posting."

 

[Armin]

"2. ADVERTISING of any kind is strictly prohibited. Posts that advertise a product, service or anything else (yes, even the sale of your Insight) will be subject to deletion."

Can we start a petition to change that rule? I would love to see a "for sale" section. As long as it is limited to things Insight that the poster is selling personally. Insights and their parts are pretty rare. It's very hard to connect buyers and sellers of items that only a handfull of people in the world have an interest in. This would be the ideal forum for them to do that!

 

[Tim Maddux]

Can we start a petition to change that rule? I would love to see a "for sale" section.

I don't see why you couldn't start such a petition.

Other moderators may of course disagree with me

 

[dan]

Whose call is it?

 

[Tim Maddux]

Whose call is it?

Up to the site admin (Benjamin) in the end to decide. Our job as mods is to brutally enforce.

 

[Rick]

I've ran this by Benjamin before, he said he would have liked to but unfortunately it sort of puts some liability on him if a deal ends up going bad. I would personally like to be able to see a buy and sell section as other forums have, but unfortunatel it probably won't happen. Can't say I blame you Benjamin.

 

[Insightful Trekker]

Can we get a ruling from Benjamin as to if a "come and see my eBay auction" type post is OK?

Yes it will somewhat limit our potential foreknowledge of such, but better than nothing and maybe gets Benjamin off the liability hook.

 

[benjamin]

We considered this at great length several times a while back but I will be taking this under advisement again with the Mods. I or one of the other Mods will keep you updated.

Edit: John -- the same thing occured to me and I hadn't even read your post. We usually haven't been too strict about links to eBay but perhaps we can make this an official exception to our NO ADVERTISING rule.

Stay tuned for an update on this issue very soon...