I need to make it clear first..I'm after clarification and not confrontation and given I've been sailing close to the wind lately I thought I'd best ask before I drop myself in the kak

My understanding re commenting on other members sales is as follows

Members sales in the members only section.... we should try to avoid comments on pricing or quality...working on the basis if you can't say anything positive then do not say anything at all

On the Ebay section then all sales wether members or not...we are allowed to comment on

Now again for clarity and to avoid myself ..and I suspect a few others ..dropping in the brown stuff...could someone clarify the position on this ?

I'm not after a row just want to try and stay within the rules and expectation of the forum.

Ta

Dude, are you not well busy over there? Are you trading loads?

I'm not allowed to work yet that's why I have too much time on my hands

I think it's more than just me that thought we were okay to comment on ebay items member or not. So some clarification would help diffuse some situations

My understanding was that we were requested NOT to make comments on ANY For Sale items 'Period'
Whether member non-member or Ebay but I may be wrong

A large majority of the ebay section should be addressed then, cos there's a plethora of threads there with comments on pricing.

In fact there are threads started purely on the pricing of an item....

Indeed - I'm just as guilty as anybody, some of the auctions I've outed, have been on a HFM? basis.

Is this connected to your rant in general and off topic ?

Prices/value is subjective

I was under the understanding that in the sales section its self it was against forum rules to comment on price, though not int he ebay outing section. but based on the bike your talking of then i think i undervalued my Merlin with Hope and M900 XTR by about £2k!

We ask for minimal comments on pricing in the retrobike classifieds. We have given no guidance for the eBay section because often that's half the point in the thread as other have mentioned. For example someone might highlight an auction which is a bargain or highlight a dreamer (£200 for a NOS 70GS mech etc.)

We will however moderate the eBay section as per the rest of the site, if a thread gets out of hand and ill tempered it may well get locked.

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I think that anything posted in the For Sale sections are quite right to be subjected to the forum rules. I've seen a few threads which have been spoilt by the odd snide comment regarding the pricing.

The eBay sections are fair game (within reason) though as far as I see it..?

Commenting on a sale that is not ones personal transaction is pretty rude in my book.

Maybe we should plull all of the flies out of the spiders webs too as we tread our paths of interference?

The value of anything is a personal one. Who are we to question the valuations of others, unless invited to do so?

In fairness to the auction that spawned all this, the seller did out his own auction in a discussion forum. You take the rough with the smooth when you do that. And, as others have said, there's plenty of discussions of ebay pricing of auctions. In my opinion, this example has become a bit sensitive for two reasons: 1) the seller is a member here 2) the starting bid seems so unrealistic to many. Now nobody is trying to suggest that people don't have a right to advertise for whatever price they see fit - I just think it's likely expecting too much that people won't pass comment, when so many ebay auctions are already discussed, and if you court discussion by outing the auction yourself.

Probably, up to a point. However like many things in life things are often not black and white.



Deep. So deep I've no idea what you're on about.

IMHO the e-bay section is a sort of "discussion" forum rather than a for sale section as such...........and people are posting for information / comments / etc.

If you want to sell something on RB then put it in the for sale section...if you want an auction with all that entails then stick it on e-bay. There is a section on e-bay to ask questions and make comments as well.


Shaun