Marketplace rules change vote/

Yes, the marketplace must be a service for active forum users and not a place where anywho can buy or sell stuff, ergo, this is not eBay.

 

For buyers: absolutely.
For sellers, I'm not sure. Oftentimes, people with really interesting dev hardware/software with less than 50 posts (sometimes they even try to contribute), so that would be lost. So I'm not sure that should be imposed on sellers to the full extent, or some caution should be administered.

 

I agree with drx. If someone wants to participate this unique source for dev items, he should try to contribute on more than just the marketplace.

Sellers often just register in a forum to sell something but that doesn't make the item less interesting. So other than with buyers, outlocking sellers would be a loss in my opinion.

 

I said yes.

 

50 posts might be a bit to many, and it is a concern about sellers with rare items. Not really sure how to offset that problem so I will sleep on it and get back with you people in the morning >_>

 

50 posts is a lot, if someone who has recently found the site has something really cool to sell it would be a shame for members here to miss out if they decide its easier to simply put it on ebay for a bidding frenzy that have to think of 50 things to say. And with so many posts as the requirement you could end up with people making rubbish posts that nobody wants to read just to reach the number needed.
How about lowering it to 20 posts?

 

50 posts isn't a lot when you are an active member of the community. I say yes!

 

Ditto on the yes!

even when it comes to buyers, i think that there should be more control, as you can never be too careful when it comes to selling, as you have no idea who the potential buyer is, i think this is important especially when it comes to dev hardware etc.

and lets face it, its only 50 posts!

 

Yes unless they have any other way to prove they have decent feedback

 

The question is how you define `decent feedback`. I bet we´ll get lots of people saying: `I have 100% ebay feedback, here check my account!!!insert ebay link)`
I´m afraid that that way the people who only want to make profit of the boards won´t be filtered out.

I´d say yes, definitly!

 

i'd say 50 for buyers and sellers.

or just don't allow buyers to post new threads until the have 50 posts. if they want something that's for sale in a thread, send a pm to the seller.

i don't really like that a member's 1st post is a "WTB: (insert dev hardware here)" thread imho.

 

Yes, but make a note saying they can PM a moderator if its a truely special item and they dont have the post count. Afterall, a good selling thread could be a huge contribution to the community too

 

I'd say 10 posts, but not 50. 50 is quite a lot.

 

I have to agree with Windowskiller here. 50 honestly is a heavy amount of posting as a minimum requirement. I always saw the marketplace as a compliment to the board and a valuable resource in finding rare items, not some super special feature that only members can use to trade their stuff.

Think of all of the items that would have been potentially lost if we had this kind of restriction in the past. If we keep the post count to a minimum such as 10 then the sources can be checked by a mod if necessary to verify that they have in fact said something useful and not just made a bunch of nonsense posts.

Start limiting sellers and we are bound to stagnate to just trading and selling the same stuff within the pool of users that we already have.

50 posts may not seem like much to some, but I tend to only post when I feel like I have something useful to contribute. In any given month I may not even make 20 posts. Unless we are trying to increase the overall post count of the board and desire a lot of me too and junk posts then I think this is a bad idea.

 

If the goal is to have a lower number of thread in the marketplace witch didn't result as a transaction at the end, you may simply add a rule that for making a "WTB" kind of thread you need at least 50 post, so this would avoid a newcomer with lower than 50 post to make a thread like "WTB - Pink Wii/PS3 Dev Kit"

Other than that, anyone with more than 5 post should be able to buy/sell anything.

Since some item can go pretty fast, when the offer is identical, Seller should preorise Active Member to new one. Ex. Someone with lower than 50 post PM 1 minute after the FS thread creation and an active one PM 5 minute later, then the seller should give the preority to the Active member IMO.

Hope this help.

 

Yes. 50 is not a lot. It is a good amount to show that you're going to contribute to the community before trying to buy OR sell.

Why should someone come on here JUST to sell? I think we're being greedy by saying no, people can't come on here and buy our cool stuff, but if they want to palm off something nice on us, fine. We need to be able to trust sellers as much as buyers, moreso really. Buyers send money first, then get item shipped. Do you REALLY want to give lots of money to someone you don't know??

Lots of people bitched when gamesniped opened up, especially when it was linked to here, because they thought they would be more easily outbid on things. Well, if you're going to think like that, then surely you wouldn't want people who don't contribute to our community looking at all the cool deals we find on eBay, not to mention private sales?

And, of course, the security side - do you want the copyright holders knowing you're flogging gear you shouldn't really have?

 

Its not that big of a deal,50 post sounds good to me.

 

Even when I didn't buy or sell anything yet on the marketplace (for reasons I can't handle unluckily), I remember it took me some time to totally understand the way it works, so I think that 50 posts is the time a new member can need to follow the rules and be known by the other members and build its own reputation on the boards (buying or selling to someone you know is always better). With this we could avoid some troubles that could happen, I think.

But I agree that if it's some really great stuff what it wants to sell, it could send a PM to a moderator asking for permission to put it on sale. This way we wouldn't lose any great offers because of this ¬_¬

 

If this is a way to make this site better than it already is then I'm all for it.