Turing Into An Auction Site?

Excuse me for showing my ignorance again but just a question.

It sounds to me 250 / 50 is a good rule for sell/buy.

But what happens if you would just want to trade? I would think that if it is a barter of equals and a person agrees it is ok.

But also in anything there is always a chance someone has a bad experience and what will be in place to resolute conflicts?

But isn't that also 8 more opportunities for the person holding the auction to get another bid, by putting the auction back to where people will see it?

Also, Admin, in response to your earlier answer to my question, thanks for clearing that up. I had no idea it was an annoyance for people, or there were complaints. I appreciate the work you're doing, it can't be easy maintaining order amongst a group a rowdy philatelists (really, I'm not being facetious).
It's too bad, I guess we all respond differently to situations.
But there do seem to be members here who like the banter. I know the squeaky wheel gets the grease and all that, but would an informal poll, such as posted about other matters, be out of line, to get the overall feel?
Just a suggestion.

I came to this site for educational purposes, not autions. They do bother as I mentioned on an earlier post. With 20-25% of the Active List now are auctions. Not that I've never bought anything, I have, but most things I see don't interest me. But for others that are more serious about paying may be annoied at the traditional commemt post. So an Auction group that is seperate I think makes sense.
Now someone mentioned Trades, I do see those alittle differently, but I think it could still be listed in Auction group, but use the term "Trade" in header.

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I don't care. Let me be perfectly clear... This is not a selling site. It's a forum to discuss stamps. The selling section is a free courtesy should established members want to use it. If you don't like the way it works, or how it's run, you are free to go sell elsewhere. If it becomes too much of a burden it will simply go away and I won't lose a minutes sleep over it and neither will 95% of the member base here.
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The trade section will likely go away. I think I'm going to add a "Make an offer" button on "Buy it nows" so if the seller is willing to accept a trade, other members may make an offer, cash or trade. Then the seller can accept or deny.

When the new section is done, the improved versions will be implemented here and on the coin forum. The auctions will be like on the coin forum and both will also have "Buy it Now" functionality. So the entire BST section here and on the coin forum will be gone.

Point taken.
I am not the argumentive type by any means, but I'm honest and just curious if a poll(as someone else also suggested above) were to be created to get feedback on the particulars? Or are the decisions set in stone already?
95%? really? Now I'm nervous to perhaps post an auction to raise stamp funds to feed the fire. Ouch. ~Ash

So, if you don't mind my summarizing... It seems to me (i haven't seen the actual complaints) that the issue here is people who aren't involved in buying/selling, but just want to discuss stamps are being bothered by the BST threads appearing in the 100 recent threads section. wouldn't merely removing the auction threads from the top 100 be a quick and simple fix. If you want to see what's been going on in those threads, you simply pop into the section and the current auction threads would be happily popped up. if you don't want to be bothered by auction threads, well... you just don't go into that section.

My only complaint with 250/50 although I think it's not a bad idea to have sellers need to be here longer, is this. It's like finally reaching the legal drinking age, and before you can have one, someone ups the age on you. So many of those folks who are now eligible to sell (and I haven't wanted to do this yet) will be unable to again for a while.

Dave, that will indeed be an issue. There will be some that will be upset. Went through it on the coin forum. We just have to chalk it up to growing pains and remind those people that if they joined here to sell, they most definitely joined for the wrong reason.

There's no point in a poll because the issue will be solved when the new BST section is implemented.

I'll check on tweaking the "last 100" pages, but rest assured that will irk some members to. You see nothing changes for me, things just come from different directions is all.

To all of the above, I can only say I'm guilty as charged for bumping my sales to generate a little interest...
and it's not like I'm trying to make a big profit... I just want to get stuff I don't want to those who may so that ultimately,
I can start buying your things. Sorry if I have offended anyone.
I was NEVER aware there was an issue with doing that. I enjoy the banter and comments.
Perhaps one way to have it be less annoying for those who are annoyed,
would have been to not necessarily change the site, but to simply make some clarification in the rules.
I too, would have liked the idea that some polls with options were taken before arbitrary changes were made.
(Tho confess the new look on the coin forum is nice and you are obviously working very hard with little thanks.)

Hi Admin,

Pls understand, that I'm not personally complaining, and I definitely didn't join up to sell ( I would have posted some auctions by now if that was the case), I'm merely trying to make suggestions to make the experience even better.

I think this forum is a truly fantastic place for people to learn about stamps. (I wouldn't be a supporter either if this wasn't the case.) I've certainly posted questions that have been answered fantastically by the members of this forum. I would contribute more to answers if I was actually able to beat these guys to the punch on getting answers out. The speed at which you get excellent answers to questions here is AMAZING!

And I have to say, Full support to those who make this forum work well. I am sure it is a thankless job, where you can never make every one happy all of the time.

So... if no one else has said it yet... "Thanks for the great job you are doing to make this forum a great place for us collectors!"

Dave

(Edited to remove a trailing "and" that was there).

Molehill - mountain.

I for one ignore the "100 Topics" and go to the sections of the forum that interest me. I have zero interest in a thread title of "#94 on cover", as I have no idea what that means. By the same token, I have no idea what "DL Auction - Russian stamps" means (what's "DL"?)

Accordingly, I see little reason why any member can't ignore the sales threads entirely. Buying and selling is part of collecting, and for the life of me I can't understand why anyone who collects would object to others buying and selling.

IMHO, some structure around the correct way to name a thread would be more useful than re-inventing the wheel.

That's my 2c (which is worth more than your 2c at the moment!), and no offence intended folks.

Thanks Admin!

I too tend to ignore the "100 Topics", the reason being, post titles there don't have the context that just looking into each section brings. "#94 on cover" doesn't convey what part of the forum it lives in. Don't know if that is a US stamp thing, or a Japanese one for that matter. But for others, I expect that 100 Topics thing works well for them.

In addition to 250 posts to sell, maybe one of the selling "requirements" should be that one pays the nominal fee for being a supporter of SCF!
I'm totally with Jubilee. I see lots of participants with LOTS of posts who aren't supporters.

You stole the thought out of my head bfranton...

That is an excellent suggestion.