Proposed rule change

[rushca01]

Could there be discussion on making it a requirement to post a pic of the item you are selling on the EE? No pic gets the post deleted type of thing?

[themonk]

Why not just ask the seller for a pics?

[rushca01]

Why not just ask the seller for a pics?

It's a pain and sellers are typically rude when you ask. To me it's lazy not to post a pic.

[TXBK]

I wouldn't buy from a seller that was rude.

[Kain]

It's a pain and sellers are typically rude when you ask. To me it's lazy not to post a pic.

Then don't do business with them.

The only thing I run into when getting pics up is that it is not always easy to get them posted and generally easier for me to email. Will generally try to get something up but there is never a promise. But making it a rule I think is counter-productive and may hurt those who don't have the means to easily post the pics on the site.

On a flip side I've never had an issue asking for or getting pics from a seller other than getting particular pics to allow me to see high wear, areas, bored, ect that I need to be able to see before stating I would be an interested buyer.

[Smash]

Having a picture doesn't necessarily do anything. I don't see it as needing to be required.

I can describe an item as great and post a picture of it I took 2 years ago, and when you get it its all marked up. The picture didn't do anything. Hell the picture could be snagged from somewhere on the internet.

It's not a matter of sellers having pictures. It's about sellers having honesty. Likewise for buyers.

If you require a picture, ask for it. Other buyers may not. Pictures likely help the item sell but I don't see a reason for posting a picture of a beaten up commie-state compliant 10rd mag I'm selling for $5.00.

[SHIVAN]

Pictures should be mandatory. However, I do not think we have the active manpower to police this.

Also, unlike paypal and ebay, most of us can't make claims against a money order, check or paypal if we use it. So the pictures do not do a lot of good for that with guns and gun parts.

I do not buy from people without a picture in their ad unless I know that person. That's my policy.

[Ryno12]

Pictures would be nice but what I'd really like to see is people starting to get their asses jacked for bumping EE threads with "SOLD" or "SPF". There's no need, it muddies the water & takes up bandwidth.

[ST911]

Pictures would be nice but what I'd really like to see is people starting to get their asses jacked for bumping EE threads with "SOLD" or "SPF". There's no need, it muddies the water & takes up bandwidth.

That is a rules vio and subject to enforcement. However, as Shivan said we do have a finite amount of manpower to monitor that. When you do see it, please report the post and someone will take care of it.

https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...ures-and-Rules

Once you have sold the item you are selling or found the item you are buying, please edit your original ad and change the title. Do not post in a thread to indicate that the item has been SOLD, SOLD PENDING FUNDS, RECEIVED or otherwise. There is no reason to bring a SOLD item back to the top of the first page. Do not edit the final sale price from your ad. It is helpful for the buyer, seller and this community to know what items sold for recently, and in the past.

[SeriousStudent]

Pictures would be nice but what I'd really like to see is people starting to get their asses jacked for bumping EE threads with "SOLD" or "SPF". There's no need, it muddies the water & takes up bandwidth.

I can introduce you to some people on here that I have personally infracted for bumping posts early. But I am unaware of a specific rule that tells people not to put "SOLD" or "SPF" in their thread, as long as they are not doing it within the 48-hour window. In a perfect world, people would just edit the title of their thread to say SOLD and save everyone time.

I think the biggest problem we have is that a statistically significant number of people never bother to read the rules stickied in every single EE subforum.

What drives me batshit is the people who edit a post to remove the price the item sold for. We'd get fewer "What is my 7.98mm Parkerized Annihilator of Doom worth?" threads if people stopped doing that.

There, now I feel better.