#77813 - digitalaqua - Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:10 am
Hi. I placed an advert for my GBA cartridge and linker in the Buy & Sell area, and its been removed ! Why?
#77826 - SimonB - Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:18 am
| Buy&Sell Section wrote: |
| Established members can sell, buy or trade any kind of items in here... |
Having never posted on the forum before, you still consider yourself to be an established member?
Simon
#77831 - swimgod - Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:23 pm
Scorched :P.
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#77833 - keldon - Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:31 pm
I never even noticed the bit about being established members myself. But it's all about safety. You wouldn't want people coming here and scamming the place.
#77839 - digitalaqua - Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:58 pm
I can see your point, I can imagine you don't wont the site to become a spam fest for dodgy dealers, but this was an advert for a cheap second hand product directly related to the topic of the forum. Perhaps I should have put that I have a feedback of 100 on eBay and currently selling my GBA and soon my DS on there so people would feel more secure dealing with me.
Anyway, with no way of advertising what is quite a niche item to the small amount of people who are likely to be interested in it and for so little money I have not much choice but to bin it.
#77864 - Dan2552 - Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:46 pm
| digitalaqua wrote: |
| I have not much choice but to bin it. |
You could donate it to someone
#77910 - sgeos - Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:34 am
| digitalaqua wrote: |
| Anyway, with no way of advertising what is quite a niche item to the small amount of people who are likely to be interested in it and for so little money I have not much choice but to bin it. |
You could stick around for a while and become an established member.
-Brendan
#77912 - sajiimori - Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:42 am
Seems like a vague requirement...
#77957 - sgeos - Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:03 am
For what it's worth, I could care less if random individuals place "buy my used linker" ads in the buy and sell forum. (So long as they limit them to about one per person per month.)
-Brendan
#77982 - keldon - Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:42 am
Hmmm, it's a bit of a grey area.
The guy is [probably] not a gba developer since he has not registered or posted here. The hardware was most likely bought for pirate games - not that I'm slating you or putting you down.
But whether you was planning on offering a fair deal or a bargain does not verify your legitimacy.
#77990 - digitalaqua - Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:20 pm
| Dan2552 wrote: |
| You could donate it to someone |
True and I had considered this, if there was an open source project asking for donations of this sort then I probably would, but again, this is now a low cost item so everyone involved will already have one.
| sgeos wrote: |
| You could stick around for a while and become an established member. |
I think the fact I'm selling all my GB related kit (I have an MBV2 as well laying around, but again how to sell or donate it?) shows I'm no longer interested in GB dev. My small amount of free coding time is spent on other projects and learning OpenGL.
| keldon wrote: |
| The guy is [probably] not a gba developer since he has not registered or posted here. |
Really can't see how this matters, but actually I am (was) a gba dev dabbler, you can even check out my only released game http://www.pdroms.de/file_details.php?fn=1392, made in a weekend so dont expect much. I've been a lurker on here for years.
#78000 - keldon - Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:07 pm
Well your demo may be a little bit of credability. Maybe you can take the reverse route of sending it to someone who will pay you when they receive it. That way you will have a trusted person, and you just need to trust them rather than them having to trust you [who has no real history].
| Quote: |
| Really can't see how this matters |
It might explain why someone has the means to put a game onto a cartridge without ever posting here.
#78004 - sgeos - Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:21 pm
| digitalaqua wrote: |
| keldon wrote: | | The guy is [probably] not a gba developer since he has not registered or posted here. |
Really can't see how this matters, but actually I am (was) a gba dev dabbler, |
In digitalaqua's defense (or maybe not), there is no way of knowing how long he has been lurking here. How much do you want for the kit and what does it contain?
-Brendan
#88796 - Dracker - Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:48 pm
Why should the possibility of the cart having been used for piracy in the past (strictly on the fact that the seller has not posted here before) prevent someone who obviously had at least a passing interest in development to be able to sell a flashcart?
Edit: Don't misunderstand me: This is not to say that I don't agree with the "established member" policy. I'm just saying THAT should be the reason of the cancellation, not the possibility of verboten software having been run on the cart in question
#88821 - SimonB - Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:40 pm
| Dracker wrote: |
| Why should the possibility of the cart having been used for piracy in the past (strictly on the fact that the seller has not posted here before) prevent someone who obviously had at least a passing interest in development to be able to sell a flashcart? |
That has never been the reason for deleting a buy&sell post and it wasnt in this case either. Please see my original reply to this post.