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    Posted: 11 May 2019 at 10:57am
Hey guys,

I used to be fairly active in here about a decade ago, and have stuck my head back in out of curiosity, and to also see if I could pass on some old stuff to anyone that wanted it. I've noticed there are strict rules on selling now. Not wanting to incur the wrath of admin, I thought I'd ask.... 

What do I have to do in order to be authorised to post in there? I'm not actually selling, I'm giving away, so can the ebay thing be overlooked due to no financial risk?
Cheers for any help. 
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Hi Chris,yes ok,fair play,i think that would be ok, just make it quite clear it's free,and you had better put your area,as will be collection only!
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Is that whole eBay link rule thing still in existence? Truly a silly rule in my honest opinion.
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Originally posted by jacethebase jacethebase wrote:

Is that whole eBay link rule thing still in existence? Truly a silly rule in my honest opinion.
Agreed, I do my best not to use eBay anymore, it's a pain in the but, I buy and sell on FB groups and use pay pal for safety if it's not cash on collection, not being able to list on here unless it is an eBay sale is way outdsted imo.
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I buy on Ebay but won't sell as there's to many scammers and I'll only buy normally if I can collect and pay in cash. The only thing I buy with delivery are records or very low value items.
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Originally posted by jacethebase jacethebase wrote:

Is that whole eBay link rule thing still in existence? Truly a silly rule in my honest opinion.

It does seem like a silly rule, but unfortunately was a necessity. 

WAY back in the day things were fairly cordial on the forum, back in the days when there used to be far more discussion of actually building speakers lol LOL  I certainly arranged to buy a few things from people on the forum and there was never any issues. 

However there was a period of time where this wasn't the case. People were being scammed or weren't happy with the items the were receiving, and when they weren't able to sort it out with the seller, or even get a hold of them in some cases, they started blaming the forum owner and sending him all sorts of legal letters. 

Now, he provides this forum to us free of charge basically as a test bed. But all of this legal hassle (from sales and from some other issues), and the time taken to actually reply to these emails or in some cases have to pay lawyers at his own expense to do so meant it was quickly becoming not worth it for him to keep things going. 

Rather than being forced to close the forum altogether, the compromise was to make all sales run through ebay, and the sales section just be links to them. That way any problems were their liability and their problem to sort, and the forum was kept out of things. 



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and there were people who were basically only here to sell stuff too, which is not really in the original spirit of the forum. it is difficult, but as kevin's said, the forum provider does us a great service so i'm happy for them to operate it as they like.
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