Sales by newcomers on pigeon watch

[Old Boggy]

This ruling obviously no longer exists but is still printed.

I thought the idea was to stop the forum being used as a ‘free version of e-bay to all comers’.

Clearly I am wrong.

OB

Edited yesterday at 08:13 by Old Boggy

[BobbyH]

Free version of GunTrader and gunstar 

[bruno22rf]

I agree, bad form and bad practice IMO, one of the many benefits of being a forum member is getting a "feel" for a fellow member and thus gaining more confident should you want to buy an item offered for sale.50 meaningful posts or having a forum member that can vouch for you would be my suggestion.

[Old Boggy]

1 hour ago, bruno22rf said:

I agree, bad form and bad practice IMO, one of the many benefits of being a forum member is getting a "feel" for a fellow member and thus gaining more confident should you want to buy an item offered for sale.50 meaningful posts or having a forum member that can vouch for you would be my suggestion.

Good morning Chris,

It’s good to welcome newcomers to this great forum in the hope that they will contribute or learn from the others experience, but as you rightly say, bad form to offer guns for sale as a first post.

ATB

OB

[kevin55]

Members with over 100 posts can now sell 2 used items per month in each of the classifieds sections.

 

From Flyfishing.co.uk

[button]

I don’t see what the issue is, buying anything unseen is a risk, I got scammed by a member on here despite doing all the checks and let’s be fair there are a number of members only seem to post sales threads and contribute nothing else

[Bigbob]

Same as always Buyer beware 

[steve_b_wales]

10 hours ago, bruno22rf said:

I agree, bad form and bad practice IMO, one of the many benefits of being a forum member is getting a "feel" for a fellow member and thus gaining more confident should you want to buy an item offered for sale.50 meaningful posts or having a forum member that can vouch for you would be my suggestion.

[udderlyoffroad]

16 hours ago, Old Boggy said:

This ruling obviously no longer exists but is still printed.

I thought the idea was to stop the forum being used as a ‘free version of e-bay to all comers’.

Clearly I am wrong.

OB

 Not sure what the issue is; you get the occasional bargoon.

Also a lot of people just aren’t life’s forum posters. I know a couple of people in real life, who have accounts on here but “can’t be bothered with all the drama” and come on here to buy/sell things.

[Dave-G]

13 minutes ago, steve_b_wales said:

I think 50 Meaningful posts is OTT - and as OCD as an airgunforum in fact. It has about 3 times less members than another air gun forum because of draconian rules, OCD mods and their sycophants.

A lot of people have better things to do than think up 50 posts just to show they are genuine shooters. I'd say maybe 5 or 10 meaningful posts would suffice.

[enfieldspares]

17 hours ago, bruno22rf said:

I agree, bad form and bad practice IMO, one of the many benefits of being a forum member is getting a "feel" for a fellow member and thus gaining more confident should you want to buy an item offered for sale.

This! 100%. If someone has been on here a while...or even too long for their own good...at least you do get that feel for their integrity.

Edited 8 hours ago by enfieldspares

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13 hours ago, udderlyoffroad said:

 Not sure what the issue is; you get the occasional bargoon.

Also a lot of people just aren’t life’s forum posters. I know a couple of people in real life, who have accounts on here but “can’t be bothered with all the drama” and come on here to buy/sell things.

100%

Let's be honest there is a few on here have built up their posts by posting in the sales section "Welcome to Pigeon Watch" pretty sad really but if they get off on it, like everything else, who cares