People interfering in you for sale threads.

The classifieds are private listings, posted by someone who actually has that item with them and so users can be confident it exists, at the price it is posted up for.

I,m sure the people who’ve been ripped off may disagree…. 😉

patricksingletrack – Singletrack Webby
News just in. We have just received our first classified donation in 3 months. It is for £5. Glad to see someone felt we were worth their money.

*reaches for violin*

I thought that’s what subscriptions were for, no?

For the next hour anyone who sends a donation gets a ;-D or the sort tag of their choice (within reason) for one week.
I’ll set them up tomorrow

How much for Awesome Big Hitter?

thi could be quite a nice earner

you should allow us to buy titles for others 😉

Start mental list 😈

Can I donate and get Cynic-Al the ‘Big hitter’ tag he’s always wanted? 😀

Junkyard – £5 and it’s yours.

clubber – no, tags are for the donor only

Have you checked with the boss on that one 😀

If al does not want it I will pay for it for a week- I e-mailed him

Wow. Thread drift.

Right, that’s me donated (fly…s) – “XC Jeyboy” please 😉

Mark is more than happy with that. You pay your money and make your choice.

Lets put it this way Junkyard – if we don’t get a fiver from you, we’ll be choosing your tag!*

*Not a genuine threat – that would be blackmail

Its ok I just laughed at it.

Me, me! I want “rubber sniffer” as my tag please!

I’ve asked for something subtle.

Although how they tie my donation to my account on here is anyones guess…

where’s my tag, dammit?

I,m sure the people who’ve been ripped off may disagree….

Can you define what you mean by “ripped off”?

I define ripped off as “paying for something and not getting it, or it not being as described”. Ripped off is not “agreeing to pay for something at a price you have agreed with the seller, when it may or may not be cheaper if you spend hours trawling the internet”.

There’s lots of reasons behind a buying decision, price alone is a tiny part of it, so it’s wrong to oversimplify the sales process and focus solely on price. How about convenience, the fact someone you know through here has it in his hand and can get to you quickly, wanting to buy through a channel they trust from someone they “know” (either in real life or on here), etc etc etc.

And yes, if someone on here had something I wanted, that they could get to me quicker than I could get it from Germany, I absolutely would buy it off them.

🙂

Can you define what you mean by “ripped off”?

I think he was referring to your statement …..

The classifieds are private listings, posted by someone who actually has that item with them and so users can be confident it exists, at the price it is posted up for.

There’s been a few where the poster didn’t have the item and didn’t post it out at any price
So yes, I agree,

I,m sure the people who’ve been ripped off may disagree….

with your statement

So for this:

The best way to help though and to not run that risk of being accused of ad spoiling is to contact the seller directly. All sellers must have a valid email address visible in their profile for this to happen.

to happen, surely four of the top ten ads in the for sale section I have just checked should have am email address in their profile? Are they fair game otherwise?

And a location or at least county in the profile would help.

Judging by the rules, you can’t spoil an Advert that shouldn’t be there.

So if there is no email address attached to the ad or the profile then its fair game.

If the seller complains then the advert will be deleted anyway as its breaking the rules.

I tend to agree that a ‘message seller’ button that uses their stw registered email address (not visible to buyer) is a pre-requisite for this [edit I mean reporting high price/issue to seller without posting on the ad] to work.

OK I’ve donated (not my first time either, I think), “Epic Battle Legend Big Hitter” please 😎

For the next hour anyone who sends a donation gets a ;-D or the sort tag of their choice (within reason) for one week.
I’ll set them up tomorrow

Balls. I stay of the forum for a couple of hours…

The price I pay for a lack of omnipresence.

What tag would you have chosen?

Well I’m loving the tags 🙂

I think that STW might have discovered a good way to get people to donate! 😀

FTFY

Im prefectly comfortable discussing the issue.
Easy enough to e-mail the seller or report it to the modz.

Oh, you cynic, druid! 😉

Not uncomfortable – just bored and responding to a request for a D.
Anyway, if anyone paid for a custom tag and hasn’t got it get – let me know patrick@singletrackworld.com.

PayPal reporting is horrid so I may have missed some.

Oh, you cynic, druid! druidh!

Are you saying druidh and cynic-al are the one and same? 😐

I may change my D as I never new what events would follow from my tongue in cheek request.

BAN THEM!

I donated £20 in May 2007, the last time I sold something on there.

Can I have the Tag “Big Chopper” please? 🙂

^^ attention whores ^^

^^ poor person ^^

😉

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bikebouy – Member
^^ attention whores ^^

Is that what you want for yours? 😯

I think cynic-al wins so far.

This should be peramanent – £2/month surcharge on the forum and you can choose your own tag.

this space for rent

I’m already an attention whore.

No need to publish the fact.. 😉

And for the record, I once tried to sell some unused tyres (Hans Dampfs) but the thread was obliterated with “you can buy those from Germany” whining phish heads.. 🙄

So, so you can tell I support Mark in his adoption of some form of (cough) regulation.

Yay! I won!

stoner should definitely have “big chopper” – in the sense I use it at least 😉

Personally, I find the term Jeyboy homophobic and offensive. If by paying a fiver you can get away with it it might lead to all kinds of tomfoolery