Joining to sell - is it really such a bad thing ?

[Adamski]

I don't really care

[BrianD]

Well I sort of started all this, me and my big mouth, you think I would learn at 72 years of age

It was just a comment I was making that people seem to join just to sell “their car” without even contributing. However we all know are zeds and we continue to see these sort of people signing up just to flog their prized possessions. The calibre of some of the adverts leaves me speechless, they are poorly written with a lack of any decent content to tempt a potential buyer, service history omitted along with where the car is located and above all no photos of the car, or if they do include some it might have been better if they hadn’t if you know what I mean.

I am sure we all do it, we add the usually comments like nice motor, GLWTS when really if we are honest we are thinking to ourselves, SERIOUSLY do they really want to sell this car.
Then we get the people that join and who have been loitering in the shadows and just never got around to joining. You can immediately tell from the standard and content of their adverts that this person knows their onions shall we say. Good quality photos and a well written advert detaining everything that a buyer might ask. That sort of advert would seriously get my attention if I was in the market to buy.

I have no problems with people just joining, we all have a choice, we can choose to ignore the bad adverts, just like we do with the fitted kitchen adverts and then grab ourselves a half decent zed from the good adverts

I was just making a comment

Happy days

[Bing]

BrianD, I honestly wasn't having a pop at you, I took it away from that thread to separate it as the topic does come up quite often and it seemed inappropriate to start a debate there... It just so happened that was the one that prompted the stream of consciousness that followed. I agree with everything you say by the way - maybe I should have titled the thread 'Quality of for sale ads by newbies'

[BrianD]

BrianD, I honestly wasn't having a pop at you, I took it away from that thread to separate it as the topic does come up quite often and it seemed inappropriate to start a debate there... It just so happened that was the one that prompted the stream of consciousness that followed. I agree with everything you say by the way - maybe I should have titled the thread 'Quality of for sale ads by newbies'

No offence taken Bing

[gedo]

+1 this bit

I think you should have somewhere between 25-50 posts before you can access the for sale threads,
That way genuine members get the benefit of buying or selling on the forum.

Don't agree with this at all. My first few posts (and I'm still a relative newbie) were to enquire about/ultimately buy a car and then buy some parts for it. Don't see why I'd need to have contributed 25-50 posts before being able to do so !

If people want to join to buy/sell, as long at the items are Z4 related, then it's all good...

[Bing]

BrianD, I honestly wasn't having a pop at you, I took it away from that thread to separate it as the topic does come up quite often and it seemed inappropriate to start a debate there... It just so happened that was the one that prompted the stream of consciousness that followed. I agree with everything you say by the way - maybe I should have titled the thread 'Quality of for sale ads by newbies'

No offence taken Bing

[bluestreak56]

Great for the community. No harm in it at all

[StevenH72]

+1 this bit

I think you should have somewhere between 25-50 posts before you can access the for sale threads,
That way genuine members get the benefit of buying or selling on the forum.

Don't agree with this at all. My first few posts (and I'm still a relative newbie) were to enquire about/ultimately buy a car and then buy some parts for it. Don't see why I'd need to have contributed 25-50 posts before being able to do so !

If people want to join to buy/sell, as long at the items are Z4 related, then it's all good...

Fair point, I'm guessing the starting point for a lot of members would be joining here to assist with their search.

[JaEdBa]

no problem here, i'd see it as a benefit personally.

it's the internet, people can do what they want within reason....even ignore the search function...

[Geezah]

Good to have the discussion. As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't bother me.

[inkey$]

Live and let live I say.
Just call out the dealers when we can and keep fighting those need-a-new-kitchen guys

[Finisterre]

Brian, GLWTS can also be read as

good luck with that sh!t


You can generally tell which meaning is intended. It certainly raises a question in my mind.

[Finisterre]

I think a minimum is pointless. Buds idea of under twenty fives optionally invisible good but it may slow down page loading and is it worth it?

Slagging off crap ads is my favourite, particularly if it is humorously done.