Twinkle Posted February 8, 2008 Report Posted February 8, 2008 When I've sold a coulpe of things in the past and put "offers" I've been told to put up a fixed price.How would you veiw an ad that says "offers" or "best offer" etc. For me this gives the seller a choice of who he would rather sell to, and at what price, and gives no faulse hope to the buyers. eg, If I put, Mk1 fiesta 1.1L "best offer around £100" . No reply or PM posted could then be classed as "first dibs", the seller then gets to make his own mind up without letting anyone down. As long as the price is realistic then I can't see how this can be faulted. putting offers around is fine m8 its just to get a starting price guide up as we have had it in the past with lots of posts and not getting a deal done
Admin Vista Posted February 9, 2008 Admin Report Posted February 9, 2008 My opinion? Dibs is something practiced by kids at school, money first gets it first and thats the way it should be. Try ringing up any business or person selling goods and say can I have 1st dibs, it won't happen. Plus if we make rules then we have to police them and most of us just don't have the spare time for that, we're all adults and we know the score, if it's sold it's sold.
oldbus Posted February 9, 2008 Report Posted February 9, 2008 Personally I think you should only be able to sell & buy on this site if your a contributor to it. As for who has "first dibs", I dont see any reason why you need to PM someone unless its to send your number or address As far as I'm aware its an unwritten rule that whoever says they want it first gets it providing they pay promptly and dont mess the seller around. Couldn´t have put it better myself.
4parajon Posted February 9, 2008 Report Posted February 9, 2008 Personally I think you should only be able to sell & buy on this site if your a contributor to it. I agree but what do you class as a contributor? Someone that has contributor under thier name. It means you have contributed towards the site. Contribting should be made more easy for people to see and do. Contributing costs £12 per year and thats goes straight to the up-keep of this site, you do get a few extra benefits (cant think what they are at the mo though) although thats not the point. £1 a month for the pleasure that this site brings us all is a very small price to pay IMO.
duttnut Posted February 9, 2008 Report Posted February 9, 2008 Contributing costs £12 per year and thats goes straight to the up-keep of this site, you do get a few extra benefits (cant think what they are at the mo though) although thats not the point. £1 a month for the pleasure that this site brings us all is a very small price to pay IMO. Don't know how, but I seem to have missed this In the past I always thought the contributors were the people who ran the site and the moderators, and people who provided guides and technical info, etc. I've now payed a subscription and very happy to do so. £1.00 a month for the services provided is a snip
johnny_h Posted February 9, 2008 Report Posted February 9, 2008 Don't know how, but I seem to have missed this This is exactly what I mean. Becoming a contributor should be a clickable banner or something promanent. i'm sure there are lots of other people like duttnut who would kindly donate if they knew a donation system was in place. As for making for sale stuff only available to contributors, I think this would be a bad idea in all honesty as we then start becoming like the AVO club. What would be cool is if there was a way of making for sale items available to contributors for a set time before going completely public.
BaileyMex Posted February 9, 2008 Report Posted February 9, 2008 Becoming a contributor should be a clickable banner or something promanent. Were looking at ways of improving the site all the time m8, the problem we sometimes have, is that most of the admin have a good knowlege of the forum, but when it comes to making significant changes to the actual layout and content of the PHP board, we reply on Mike (ZetecVan) and he is a busy chap, has a regular job like the rest of us and does all his hard work for the site after work for nothing, (Little Big Up for Mike there ) So please bare with us, with stuff like this
johnny_h Posted February 9, 2008 Report Posted February 9, 2008 It's not good enough Colin. Mike should get his priorities right.
4parajon Posted February 9, 2008 Report Posted February 9, 2008 Contributing costs £12 per year and thats goes straight to the up-keep of this site, you do get a few extra benefits (cant think what they are at the mo though) although thats not the point. £1 a month for the pleasure that this site brings us all is a very small price to pay IMO. Don't know how, but I seem to have missed this In the past I always thought the contributors were the people who ran the site and the moderators, and people who provided guides and technical info, etc. I've now payed a subscription and very happy to do so. £1.00 a month for the services provided is a snip Nice one
Fiesta Steve Posted February 9, 2008 Report Posted February 9, 2008 Nice one duttnut, your a valued member
mk1super Posted February 9, 2008 Report Posted February 9, 2008 Theres a Ducati bike forum/ club that as i recall has a fee of like 3 quid to advertise in there for sale section for parts and think its 5 quid for bikes seems to work well there. I personelly dont think theres ever such a thing as first dibs. Ive learned that the hard way Oh and dont buy a Ducati there expensive tempromental crap
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