Yeah, I’m not too sure about a price guide in the FAQ section, it could work out, but you’d have to have quite a few different scenerios in there, otherwise kids would be asking all kinds of questions as to why some dude is asking this much more than the guide says or that much less than it suggests.
I mean some people are doing interest checks on their stuff and are not looking to get an opinion on how much their stuff is worth, but merely looking to find a buyer that has the same size hard-on for their shit.
I think there should be an open ban warning for people crapping on FS threads to be determined by the mods. If the guy shitting is willing to challenge the mods opinions, then go for it in a respectable mannor. We get too many people here hating on other peoples stuff just because they got ripped off once before from not doing their homework.
I believe that the active mods we currently have are among the most knowlegable people in the club, and have every right to ban someone for shitting. Put it this way, if the person is worried that what they say might be cause for ban, the guy selling the stuff probably isn’t that far out of the ballpark, if he is, it shouldn’t be a hard descission to make, weather to keep your fingers shut or not.
I think the mods should ban more freely. too many people get away with shit on here. I realize the mods don’t get paid to do what they do, but the club would be a much better place if you guys were more strict.
I perosnally think there should be a way for users to flag FS threads that are overpriced. however, its should be restricted to users with a certain post count or some other way to restrict noobs flagging all the shit.
I think there is a fairly large agreement that people should be able to argue highly over priced, false, misleading FS threads.
There also appears to be a requirement for some sort of control.
I say figure out how to moderate that and your good.
How about creating a different thread in another section (perhaps a sub-section of the Sale forum)?
The sub-forum could look something like:
Son240 main > Classified Section > Parts for Sale > Sales Discussions
The subject of the post would be the same title as the original sale thread. The first line of the price challenge post would have a link to reference the original sale post. From there, it is up to the poster to respectfully challenge the price by providing references or contacts. Any kind of disrespect results in a ban?
In addition, I would imagine that all discussions/challenges would occur in this “Sales Discussions” sub-section. It removes the garbage from the sale thread but still allows discussion. Also, non-buyers/potential buyers can share their observations of “great price/great product.” Some, if not all buyers simply don’t care to sift through 3-4 pages of discussions and “awesome product/I’d buy it if I had the money” comments (Honestly, no one gives a fuck as to whether you have/don’t the money to buy something) - it’s a waste of bandwidth, time, and effort.
With this in place, I think it would be fair to strictly enforce bans for crapping on sale threads. Replies that are not relevant to completing the sales transaction should garner a ban. I don’t think our sale threads are active enough to garner such strict policing but you have to start somewhere…perhaps if we tighten up the sales threads, we could promote better sales transactions.
“Objective moderating” can be used to control sale threads. I’ve used this idea in monitoring QA for frontline customer service representatives.
It’s a way for mods to analyze a post, then decide on an action. It’s quite simple but is time consuming because it requires mods to read through each and every post. But here’s how I’ve rolled it out in the past: the controller reads a reply to the original post and asks himself/herself “Will this question/comment result in a sale?”
Yes - no action.
No - delete post and issue warning to poster/ban poster
The reason it’s simply is because you’re asking and answering a yes/no question. As such, there can only be 2 results. It’s all objectivity and no subjectivity.
This is nothing, there were dudes that were going to kill a shit talker on GTRC.
On the evening of September 11th, two men claiming to be from Vancouver came into the place I work. They had a photo of me and were looking for someone with the handle “A Pointy Rock”, but didn’t seem to know my real name. I was not working at the time, but they came up to a few co-workers looking for me with this information. They apparently got my photo and where I work from a MySpace account I haven’t used in over a year - how they had the photo and not my name I don’t know. The MySpace had nothing related to my address on it, and I pulled the account down when I heard this.
My co-workers gave them very little info about me, then the people looking for me stated that they were there to kill me because of a comment I apparently made online about their Skyline (on the internet) which cost them the sale.
What makes this absolutely bizarre is I am NO WHERE NEAR Vancouver, it’s over 500km away from where I live.
The other thing is I don’t know what comment I could have possibly made. I went back and looked through all the comments I’ve made on the two Skyline forums I go to - this one and the official TSS one - and the only negative thing I could find that I said about a Skyline was that one looked like a Civic from behind.
All I have to go on is the fact that they’re from Vancouver and pictures of the two of them. If it is the owner of the Skyline which I said looked like a (Honda) Civic then I have his name and know he owns a car dealership in Abbotsford - if not, then I have no idea who it is.
If anyone knows who these people are, please shout out. I simply can not believe that someone would go through this much trouble to find me over that kind of comment.
I dunno much about the car thread, but i do know about computers and i do believe that jammin was right in pointing out the value of the computer. im basically running the same set up with a significantly better monitor and i personally wouldnt even price my system that high if i were selling it.
Computer parts after being installed drops in value by about roughly 15-20% right off the batt. so under the assumption he built the computer for 4500, i would be able to build the same machine for prolly significantly less cuz mungrin you prolly wont realize this but jammin was being Generous when he priced out your system. if it was me, you woulda looked a LOT worse.
anyways theres a saying, let the buyer beware, so we could put up a FAQ warning people but if the people dont have to common sense to adhere to it, it would be a waste of Mike’s time to even put it up.
