Would you post your less than favorable thoughts in a WTS/WTT?

[abnk]

Originally Posted by Pami

As a side note, not all "unrelated content" is necessarily negative. A post with something to the effect of "This is a great gun and everyone should have one!" gets deleted just as frequently as "This is a piece of crap and you won't ever sell it at that price."

Just FYI.

I was not aware of that, Pami. Thanks for posting.

[hoosiertriangle]

This works best only when full and complete disclosure takes place. The marketplace requires an active community sharing information so that full disclosure is either happens from the seller or the community supplants the missing/incorrect information. If I go to the car dealer and the dealer says, "hey I've got a great deal for you on this brand new Camry," when in reality it it has been in a huge wreck and was readily rebuilt, the consumer relies on outside information that is readily obtainable to determine appropriate value.

The rule as currently written makes a trade-off between encouraging full disclosure of information from the community and ease of use for those moderating. Since this isn't my forum, I won't dictate how to the rules should work. I just want to make clear that there is more going on that what the arguments to date have appeared to be.

Originally Posted by W9ZEB

If you think the seller is off.... PM the seller. If there is a buyer interested in the item at the price listed, that's capitalism. Things will sell for whatever someone is willing to pay for them.

[W9ZEB]

I'd like for you to take a look at this section of the website.

Private Sales - INGunOwners

Count the Number of Positives, and compare to the number of Negatives.

on the 21st of July (The last day I was willing to try to keep a master list.)
It was [+155 / -7]

Guys like Allen M have nearly +20..... From time to time Shit happens. All the rules in the world aren't going to fix that. What a lot of comments in ads do, is take other well written ads and push them to page three or four because there's a running commentary on a handful of poorly written ads.

Buyer and Seller Beware. It's as simple as that.

[haldir]

How about a post like this. I notice you are asking $750 for this weapon, it is currently selling for $500 at Dick's Sporting Goods. Am I missing something?

[W9ZEB]

use a PM for those sorts of questions.