kudzurunner
2281 posts
Jan 24, 2011
10:08 AM
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All:
It has come to my attention that some of you are starting individual threads devoted to "for sale" items such as harps (custom and otherwise), amps, effects boxes, and the like.
The issue of selling stuff on this website is a vexed issue, and there are gray areas. Obviously it's in the interest of ALL forum members to be able to solicit, and give, business in the matter of the hardware we love. Free and open exchange is good, including free and open exchange of $$$ for cool stuff. I just purchased an old Masco amp as a result of a query I posted here. If I had such an amp, I'd want to be able to sell it to somebody here.
By the same token, none of us want this forum to be completely permeated and colonized by for-sale ads. That lowers the general tone and potentially corrupts honest dialogue. Everybody becomes a pitchman for his own for-sale stuff--or, more likely, some people who are specifically coming here to sell stuff end up dominating the tone of the forum. I don't want that. We don't want that.
The prevailing rule is this: if you've got stuff to sell, please put it in the "FOR SALE 2011" thread. If we get strict adherence to this, that thread ends up lingering on p.1, because some forum member is almost always selling something on any particular day.
The new forum, incoming in a few weeks, will have a designated sub-forum for selling stuff.
Also: if you're in the harp-stuff business, please feel free to include your business in your signature, as a hyperlink. That's fine with me.
But please do NOT begin new threads whose sole purpose is to sell stuff. The "FOR SALE 2011" thread is where you should post stuff. If you'd like to keep that thread on p. 1, feel free to bump it once a day.
If you feel you've got a compelling reason for violating the policy, please email me and ask. Jason Ricci did that, and I ended up posting an item about stuff that he had for sale. He's a close personal friend, he'd had a tough time in recent months, and I thought he'd earned a one-time high visibility thread. I trust that y'all agree.
--Adam
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