Market rule change

I think it should be against market rules for people to promote their ebay auctions in the market. Trying to get people from here to bid against each other for your crap seems a little slimy. If you want to sell it to people here then sell it to people, if not, don't.

Terrible idea

I don't even like eBay, and I've never had a problem with people posting their auctions now and then. It's a little annoying when something says "FS", when it's an auction link..."FA", or "eBay" would be better in that scenario. Not really a complaint, just a general statement.

Unrelated: What I *don't* like is when everything's "offers only", and people hold silent auctions. Seems to be a trend within the past year or so.

RocketLawnChair said:

I don't even like eBay, and I've never had a problem with people posting their auctions now and then. It's a little annoying when something says "FS", when it's an auction link..."FA", or "eBay" would be better in that scenario. Not really a complaint, just a general statement.

Unrelated: What I *don't* like is when everything's "offers only", and people hold silent auctions. Seems to be a trend within the past year or so.

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That's basically what I find annoying. Like 1/2 the selling threads are just links to ebay.

Suggest an "Ebay auctions ending this week April 1 - April 8" and an "Ebay auctions beginning this week April 1 - April 8". The combination of the two would cover any gap in time if someone listed an auction that ends on the 9th.

I'll make the threads now to test them out.

ForeverSublime said:

Suggest an "Ebay auctions ending this week April 1 - April 8" and an "Ebay auctions beginning this week April 1 - April 8". The combination of the two would cover any gap in time if someone listed an auction that ends on the 9th.

I'll make the threads now to test them out.

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What if you have a FS thread with a few unsold items, and decide to move them to ebay? Would you have to close the old thread? What if you only move some items? Do you get a sales thread and the right to post in the auction thread? If you can have both a sales thread and auction posts, then you wouldn't need to in the first place, as you could contain everything in one sales thread. If you can't have both, then you're limiting people to either auctioning their goods or selling them privately, which is obviously not a good solution either.

How many posts do you get in the auction thread? As many as you want?

I imagine it will get a bit confusing when buyers and sellers are asking and answering each other's questions. The thread will inevitably end up fragmented and hard to read. It's also going to be hard to navigate.

This sounds like it would increase clutter.

Putting FA or ebay in the thread title like RLC suggested makes a lot more sense. Another option, similar to your suggestion, is to have an auction forum (like killercabs does), which is both less work and less clutter than two new auction threads every week.

killercab's rule that you need to post a price would be great to have here.

and interest check threads are the stupidest shit goin. either sell it or dont. no cock teasing "i dont know what this is worth" bullshit. of course you know what its worth. you fuckin bought it at one point, didnt you?

i agree with this. lots of people post BS for sale threads with no prices hoping to get offered 2x what it's worth. when they don't get any replies after 2 days they put everything on ebay and keep bumping the thread till the end of the auction.

i don't think ebay links have any place here, that's what ebay search is for.

Unrelated: What I *don't* like is when everything's "offers only", and people hold silent auctions. Seems to be a trend within the past year or so.

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I agree with this,
I'm not a fan of ebay links in the market forums but i understand that quite often people try to sell here first, then post a link to the ebay auction if it doesn't sell, so as to give people here a chance to buy it if they missed it the first time around. That seems fair enough to me.
Not a fan of people just pushing ebay auctions here, i agree with dash on that one.

If it's an auction I think the thread clearly needs to be marked: FA or eBay, otherwise it's annoying to click on a sale thread to find it's an auction.

We really need to be able to edit older threads. What was the rationale/reason for not being able to do that again? I thought it was a decent reason but I can't recall.

i really dont like when people edit out the things they've sold.

its kinda annoying, and it doesnt lend any credibility to feedback theyve recieved when theres nothing in the thread its linked to.

i think this was one of the reasons editing of old posts was removed.

not sonic said:

i really dont like when people edit out the things they've sold.

its kinda annoying, and it doesnt lend any credibility to feedback theyve recieved when theres nothing in the thread its linked to.

i think this was one of the reasons editing of old posts was removed.

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I don't do this, and I thought most sellers just wrote SOLD where the price went.

Maybe this should be a market rule?

Lagduf said:

If it's an auction I think the thread clearly needs to be marked: FA or eBay, otherwise it's annoying to click on a sale thread to find it's an auction.

We really need to be able to edit older threads. What was the rationale/reason for not being able to do that again? I thought it was a decent reason but I can't recall.

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Yes, a simple "FA" instead of FS would be ideal or eBay. Also adding SOLD to the title helps, I hate it when I see a FS thread and click in it and find that the most recent post says it was sold.

Lochlan said:

What if you have a FS thread with a few unsold items, and decide to move them to ebay? Would you have to close the old thread? What if you only move some items? Do you get a sales thread and the right to post in the auction thread? If you can have both a sales thread and auction posts, then you wouldn't need to in the first place, as you could contain everything in one sales thread. If you can't have both, then you're limiting people to either auctioning their goods or selling them privately, which is obviously not a good solution either.

How many posts do you get in the auction thread? As many as you want?

I imagine it will get a bit confusing when buyers and sellers are asking and answering each other's questions. The thread will inevitably end up fragmented and hard to read. It's also going to be hard to navigate.

This sounds like it would increase clutter.

Putting FA or ebay in the thread title like RLC suggested makes a lot more sense. Another option, similar to your suggestion, is to have an auction forum (like killercabs does), which is both less work and less clutter than two new auction threads every week.

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People would only get to post their auctions in the auction thread. If it's for sale then moves to being for auction - then they can make note of it in the thread and post the link in the auction thread. The original "For Sale" thread has lost its purpose and died.

People don't have to talk about ebay questions on neo-geo.com. That's why ebay has a messaging and email system of their own. Neo-Geo.com is not in the business of helping ebay's business.

"FA" has been the standard for years and years. The problem is that people don't follow the suggestion.

I like DurandalThoth's reasoning. There is no need to bump an auction post daily. If there was a single thread where other people could bump the thread with new information (a new auction listing of their own) then everyone's auction would get bumped at once instead of 4 threads fighting for top position and each of the 4 threads bumping themselves independently on a daily basis without any new information... or a lower price.

*This issue isn't something that annoys me a great deal. I just thought I'd make a suggestion, and test it out. There were 4 FA threads posted today - none used the threads I made.

Yep, like that guy who posted "FS: Huge lot of vid game stuff", you open it up and it is a link to ebay. I clicked it and he was selling empty boxes, and he bumped that stupid thread every day for a week and a half. No one wants your dumb boxes, and quit bumping. It's crap like that that spurred this thread on.

It is already against the rules to post auction threads as FS.

it is certainly not being enforced then