marketplace on list

[Huw Powell]

> Some of us whom have text email access don't always have web access, so
> we'd miss the sales....

not a very compelling argument, there.  So that a few, couple, however
many people can read the ads, the other 2000 or so will get them in
their inbox and thye will also forever reside in the archives.

On the dorf truck list, a "for sale" posting I saw was immediately
scolded by the list owner/moderator!  (so was my sending in a link to my
Haynes-derived simplified schematic, oh well)

There are also the tougher questions - for sale items not owned by
poster, and want to buy stuff.  We all "feel" more secure doing it on
the list, but a simple ban would change our tune, right?  The
marketplace could always have a section or comment added on cars for
sale to say they do not belong to the person who listed them, right?

Personally, even though in the past I have bought and sold many parts,
even cars, via the mail interface, I think it would be a big improvement
now that the marketplace exists to keep the trading there, where it
vanishes when it is over and only those interested have to wade through
it.

It has advantages, too - the busy person looking for a car might need to
delete rather than read their digests, but could peruse the ads at
leisure, because they have a reason to do so.

just my 2-3 cents, I guess

> If y'all want to stop seeing stuff for sale posted here on the list,
> then:
>
> a)don't reward people by answering them when they post something for sale
> b)browse/search the marketplace more often
> c)when you have something FS or something wanted, put it on the
> marketplace rather than posting to the list
>
> If we basically all agreed that from now on, no for-sale items should
> go on the list, and we all knew that the next time we needed to
> find/sell something we looked in the marketplace, the problem would
> be reduced somewhat.

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Huw Powell

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