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[bazzer]

When you have a car for sale and would like an Omegaowners.com member to buy it, but you have less than 250 posts, where would you sell it?



admin edit to removes potential advertising.

[feeutfo]

Amy one of the other usual channels I guess.

EBay, auto trader, piston heads, gumtree etc

[mantahatch]

I think you have a number of otions. One would be to post and get your post count up. Two would be places like, ebay, autotrader, local papers etc.

I believe its is viewed quite badly trying to sell on here otherwise, and I understand the reasons for it.

[mantahatch]

Must type quicker 

[feeutfo]

There are very good reason for the limit. Mostly due to overly high expectations on of buyers, and inaccurate descriptions by sellers and all the other agro etc etc involved with buying and selling, and admin having to deal with the aftermath purely because the sale takes place through the forum.

Best will in the world, there can easily be issues with a sale... Be it for cars or parts. Unfortunately some don't take a "don't crap in the nest approach" and risk rather things up for everyone. Shame, but there we are.

[bazzer]

Thanks Manta and Chris. Sorry.... it was a slightly facetious question. I understand the rules, but wanted an omega owner member to have first chance. I made a post with a comment for the moderators, but....

It was removed without explanation or the courtesy to either tell me or help me. I may not have posted much, but always found this forum to be interesting helpful and informative. Seems like there's a jobs worth about :-(

Oh well such is life....Walks away mumbling about unhelpful moderators...

[albitz]

From the moderators point of view Baz - I would imagine they are short of patience with this type of thing,as they have seen it hundreds  of times before,and they are busy with dayjobs,running the other aspects of the forum and getting on with life in general.

[Jimbob]

I removed it.

Rules are rules, posts breaking these are always removed without warning or notice.

We all have lives outside here, and earn no money though this site, so tend not to waste time answering questions the guidelines cover.  If you want a commercial level of communication, May I suggest using a commercial sales site where you pay for that level of support.

You know full well you don't have access to the sales areas after posting a cheeky advert elsewhere...what did you think would happen?

[feeutfo]

Thanks Manta and Chris. Sorry.... it was a slightly facetious question. I understand the rules, but wanted an omega owner member to have first chance. I made a post with a comment for the moderators, but....

It was removed without explanation or the courtesy to either tell me or help me. I may not have posted much, but always found this forum to be interesting helpful and informative. Seems like there's a jobs worth about :-(

Oh well such is life....Walks away mumbling about unhelpful moderators...

Unfair mate, sorry. There plenty of info on here about the rules, and plenty of posts on the issue. It's a bit like living with a nagging wife if you think about it, becomes exceptionally irritating after a few years of the same old ear ache.

To an extent your not to know I suppose, but the info is there.

In all honesty this is absolutely the worst place to sell, people expect a silk purse for the cost of a sows ear. Although I understand fully your desire to make the sale available to OOFers. I would blame those that crap in the aforementioned nest.

[joshwyatt]

I don't think OOF is really the best place to sell an Omega.
I do currently have one advertised on here, and it is not advertised elsewhere. It's a project type really...so not suitable for the non Omega minded people I would think.
A concise, well written, no flannel advert will sell a vehicle on ebay.
You'd be suprised by how many OOF'ers browse ebay all the time looking at each new Omega that gets listed, of which I do aswell...sometimes  so you'd no doubt get plenty of OOF'ers to see your vehicle advertised on ebay.
I haven't really used the for sale section on here for some time, but if it were to be removed...I don't think it'd be a bad thing as it just seems to cause the mods a fair amount of grief.

[henryd]

I have recently sold my Elite but did not even bother to advertise it here even though I had the required post count,as others have said you will generally do better on auto trader or similar as the general public do not realise how little an Omega can be worth

[bazzer]

Thanks for having the balls to let me know you deleted the post JimBob, however I did leave a message asking for help from a mod. You obviously read it, but still cared not to respond and then later reply wasting more of your time with a post bemoaning the fact you don't get paid blah blah blah. Maybe the post quota needs to be re-visited. Maybe length of membership should also be included as another method of weeding out all those that want to advertise for free.

My 'cheeky advert' was an attempt to allow a genuine Omega fan the opportunity to buy it.

But until then..."rules is rules' and the jobsworth ideology will remain for you I guess.

Sad really, this is in all other respects a bloody good forum.

[Jimbob]

No balls involved.  all moderation is open to other mods, anything like that is ALWAYS just deleted.

Youve missed the point, im not moaning I dont get paid, My point was if you want a higher service, use a paid for service.  The sales areas here exist purely as a favour to contributors.  Length of service proves nothing I'm afraid.

For the record...I didnt read beyond the fact its an advert, just clicked delete after reading the 1st line.

If you wanted an answer, pm your question to any mod, instead of just breaking the rules and hoping to manage a sale before the admin team spot it.

I suggest you look closer at your own behavior before picking faults in those that give a lot of time to try and help this forum running smoothly.

[tunnie]

Thanks for having the balls to let me know you deleted the post JimBob, however I did leave a message asking for help from a mod. You obviously read it, but still cared not to respond and then later reply wasting more of your time with a post bemoaning the fact you don't get paid blah blah blah. Maybe the post quota needs to be re-visited. Maybe length of membership should also be included as another method of weeding out all those that want to advertise for free.

My 'cheeky advert' was an attempt to allow a genuine Omega fan the opportunity to buy it.

But until then..."rules is rules' and the jobsworth ideology will remain for you I guess.

Sad really, this is in all other respects a bloody good forum.

Thats second time you've said that, its not the case.

Its clear & simple.

250 Posts or more to sell a car. End of. Thats our rules.

They are there to protect buyers from people joining, posting some rubbish then trying to sell a car to make money. OOF is not here for people to just join & sell.

250 posts is nothing, if you contributed, got involved, then you can easily sell.

Stop bloody moaning, mods give up a lot of time to keep spammers at bay, run the site technically.

If you don't like rules, tough!

[Jimbob]

To avoid this turning into a slanging match, now locking as views have been shared.

Feel free to PM me or any other admin to discuss further.