Regardless, all bikes, bike accessories, etc. are supposed to go in the Buy-Sell-Trade forum. I don't see the point of clogging up the forums with everyone putting every bike they see or every product they see in their forum, and then claim it's better to put it in one forum over the Buy-Sell-Trade. It's circumventing the very reason why the Buy-Sell-Trade forum was created.
We aren't ebay, so why is it that we should have the ebay stuff listed in the forums in the first place? And if they are put in the forums, and people do end up bidding on them, then the people who placed their goods on ebay are benefitting from our forums. As such, they should be moved into the Buy-Sell-Trade, as specified by Joe:
All threads in this Buy - Sale - Trade forum must include a link to a 3rd party website were your bicycle or item for sale is listed.
If you list an item for sale directly, without the use of a 3rd party website, your listing will be deleted without question.
For a listing of websites were you can sale your item in a user to user format, please visit this thread:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=44517
There have been some threads here with bikes, bike products, etc. that we cannot ascertain if the products are for sale by someone in the forums or someone who is not registered with our forums. That makes it a lot more difficult for us to moderate the forums.
Sub-forums for products for sale don't seem to make sense if we already have a forum within the Buy-Sell-Trade. If a product is fixie/ss/track related, you should simply put the that in the title so that everyone can see the item for sale is fixie/ss. That way, you won't have to search around or wonder if the item in the Buy-Sell-Trade is ss/fixie related or not.
Finally, the fact of the matter is, if we do it for one forum, we have to do it for all forums. Then the Buy-Sell-Trade forum becomes useless, since everyone just posts their links in their respected forums, and the forums become bogged down with products for sale. Then we're back to the same problems we originally had, when people were posting their articles for sale directly on the forums, and before Joe knows it, he has more cease and desist letters from other attorneys.
I'll talk to Joe, but I think because of the large amount of posts we have for ss/fixies for sale from third party sites that are showing up on this forum in the past few months, we need to enforce the guidelines Joe originally set forth for ANY articles for sale that come through third party sites.
Koffee