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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturdee View Post
    Having read the whole thread I beg to differ.

    I believe you are trying to be at the least pedantic and at the worst ... ( the rules prevent me from expressing my thoughts here).....

    Give it up, admit that you're wrong and read the rules. Maybe the Mods should in future just delete any thread in the market place that doesn't follow the rules and be done with it.


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    Yes Peter, I was wrong, I didn't read the rules before posting. No argument there, I told Big Shed early on about that.

    As Big Shed admitted "It seems very difficult to get the message across,". I was simply trying to assist by pointing out that I believe the rules could be written more clearly.
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    The way I see it the rules are for the transaction, if the seller sells to a buyer who has not followed the rules then neither can claim the rules have been followed.
    I have not seen the "offending" offer I am just giving my understanding of the rules.
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    Quote Originally Posted by murray44 View Post
    I was simply trying to assist by pointing out that I believe the rules could be written more clearly.
    What could be more clearer in the rules under the sellers area :

    Please note: these items WILL be deleted:

    Auctions,
    Non-approved commercial sales (see glossary below),
    Private Message (PM)/Email/phone me an Offer, and
    those without a price.
    The problem arises time and time again because the Mods are too kind and lenient. If they just deleted these threads a few times, and marked deleted as per rules, then people will start to read the rules.

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    Peter,

    The Moderators are kind and lenient because that's what moderate means

    If they deleted as per the rules, they would no longer be Moderators, they'd be 'Harshers' hehe
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    Quote Originally Posted by murray44 View Post
    Peter,

    The Moderators are kind and lenient because that's what moderate means

    If they deleted as per the rules, they would no longer be Moderators, they'd be 'Harshers' hehe
    But then they also would be following the rules, like they are supposed to.

    And it would quickly solve this perennial problem of members not reading and following the rules. If other rules are broken we get moderated why not this one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturdee View Post

    If other rules are broken we get moderated why not this one?

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    Bad for business I guess
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    Murray, it appears to me that Big Shed was quoting the Buyer's rule because you were inadvertently encouraging buyers to send you a PM rather than saying "I'll take it". In other words, if the buyers comply with rule 16 there is no need for you to say "PM me please". It seems to me that the problem lies mainly with the buyers rather than the sellers, and Fred was merely trying to short circuit any potential problems with buyers following your instruction.

    Having said that, this new thread seems to be a teacup with an approaching storm. I mean, you already responded to Fred with "fair enough", so it either is or is not fair enough.

    The smartest thing that I've seen a seller do (and recently) was to say "please comply with the rules by saying 'I'll take it' in the thread.

    Big Shed, Groggy, and other mods: I know you guys have to spend a great deal of time patrolling the market place (and spin off threads such as this), but I just wonder if you could save yourselves work overall by quickly adding a post to each Market place thread (post #2) to say:
    Buyers - please follow the rules by posting "I'll take it" if you wish to purchase the item.

    I'd be surprised if there wasn't a net effort saving.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FenceFurniture View Post
    Having said that, this new thread seems to be a teacup with an approaching storm. I mean, you already responded to Fred with "fair enough", so it either is or is not fair enough.
    I agree and I think it is time that this thread is closed as the subject has had a fair thrashing.
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    This has been added to the top of the rules here: https://www.woodworkforums.com/f90/ru...forums-150585/


    Major Rule.
    All transactions (buyers and Sellers) are to be through the board. No PM's or Emails except to get addresses.

    Anyone flaunting this will have their posts deleted.


    That hopefully is plain enough for all to understand.

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    Sorry Gents,

    If you read my posts you'll see I've never argued with any of the mods (or anyone else) re the rules.

    I have merely pointed out that I thought the rules could have been written more clearly. There are plenty of people who don't conform to the rules (as pointed out by Big Shed).

    I thought, perhaps, the lack of adherence was due to the way the rules were written but I have been advised several times the rules are written quite clearly so there must be another reason.

    Just my opinion, that's all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by View Post
    This has been added to the top of the rules here: https://www.woodworkforums.com/f90/ru...forums-150585/


    Major Rule.
    All transactions (buyers and Sellers) are to be through the board. No PM's or Emails except to get addresses.

    Anyone flaunting this will have their posts deleted.


    That hopefully is plain enough for all to understand.
    Only if they read it. Just look at how many inelegable entries you get in the draws because they have not read the rules in your announcement
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    As an example, I just counted 40+ seperate links and buttons at the top of this page (I didn't even scroll down from the top)

    It's really not that hard to miss a link, button or message.
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