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| Thread ID: 127115 | 2012-10-04 18:29:00 | Wanted to Buy / For Sale Forum | Myth (110) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1305170 | 2012-10-04 22:14:00 | Sounds like a good idea but we already use the PC world chat forum for this. LOL, Metla a moderator :D |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1305171 | 2012-10-04 22:22:00 | People sell stuff in pcworld chat? I've only ever seen maybe a handful of things given away. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1305172 | 2012-10-04 22:23:00 | Whoops, I meant that. | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1305173 | 2012-10-04 22:29:00 | As ChazTheGeek points out, it's already being done in chat, a separate forum would simply make it official. Hosted on the PF1 board it wouldn't need to sustain itself. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1305174 | 2012-10-04 22:32:00 | Personally I feel it would be like any other place (hussle live, even trademe) If you got something off plod, chaz or wainui I'm fairly confident they'd be honest. I mean, most of the stuff we'd be selling is things like PCI adapters, bits of RAM and HDD's. I don't see anyone selling "fake" iPhones on here trying to turn a quick buck. If you buy off some little twit with 3x posts bad english and get a steal of a deal well lucky you. If you get a lump of wood in the mail I can't say you weren't asking for it! Haha, I remember the Metla moderator thread. If I had time (I don't, exams :() I'd set up a site where PF1 members could list items they had and were willing to sell, just a listing though eg Wainui might have: 80GB WD IDE HDD 120GB Seagate IDE HDD PCI SATA Controller Linksys 10/100 Ethernet NIC All you'd do is click on the link and offer/request a price and arrange shipping. Also allow people to list what they were looking for (eg NickG might be looking for 2nd hand android phone) so if a member was selling/upgrading they could easily see that there was another lad around here who wanted such a device and could offer it up. Would be easier and cleaner than trying to put it into a forum and also wouldn't have the issue (if it's an issue) of being directly associated/managed by PF1 and fairfax. Only thing that might be needed to tie it together is access to PF1's VB MySQL and PHP database to log users in and out/authenticate PF1 members from imposters. If course it wouldn't be too hard to do each member manually by posing a security question eg for plod: Were you surprised with my timecapsule? or just sending a PM to the member with an auth code. Wishful thinking anyway. If people think its a good idea it could be a good project for some of our aspiring coders (and experianced coders) to produce this. I can do CSS/HTML and very basic PHP (I'm rather poor at intelligent coding, whether due to lack of skill or lack of practice I don't know haha) but the UI would be no problem. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1305175 | 2012-10-04 22:32:00 | Not everyone is such as a prodigious contributor as you, Nick :lol: If you read my post, I said 'or if you have been around since dec 2004. Also, I mentioned being able to ask a mod to let you in if you do not meet either of those. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1305176 | 2012-10-04 22:32:00 | The new Forum would make things official as Agent_24 said. I think it draw more attention to these forums. You can call me Chaz. :) |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1305177 | 2012-10-04 22:33:00 | I dont mind seeing the odd pre-loved part being sold, or stuff being given away , but not in favour of a full-on buy/sell/trade type forum. I dont believe its what this site is about. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1305178 | 2012-10-04 22:35:00 | Yup. Right you are. | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1305179 | 2012-10-04 22:49:00 | <snip> NickG might be looking for 2nd hand android phone<snip> I think you know me :D |
Nick G (16709) | ||
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