Only users with a history of 250 posts (user title 6502 or higher) and membership for at least 6 months can access the Marketplace forum. Only users with a history of 100 posts can post in the Politics, Religion, Social Issues forum. If you start a "for sale" thread or political thread in another forum to avoid this rule, your thread will be deleted. Once you reach 100 or 250 posts, you may not immediately be able to post in these forums. The privilege is added automatically when the forum system does routine processing, so check again in a few hours. The delay is normal, so please do not contact us to report it as a problem on the same day that you reach 100 or 250 posts. When you first gain access to the Marketplace forum, you will see it in the Community section of the forums.
Where is the Marketplace forum?
You will not see the Marketplace forum until you qualify to use it. See the previous paragraph.
Once you qualify, it will appear in the Mac Community section.
Alright, thanks for reply here. 250 posts is pretty high. 6 mounths is pretty long too.
I'm OK with 250 posts, but 6 months.. I might have a slight conflict of interest though...
Yea, agree with that. Dunno why it's that long, I mean IMO anyone who show a good feedback here after some weeks might be allowed to this thread.
I can understand it. They used to have different rules, but had issues with scammers.
Ok, I see. Well with Paypal I guess it's safe anyway.
No it isn't. PayPal is OKAY, and it helps when you're a buyer, but it doesn't protect sellers, no matter how much they tell you.
Especially when a lot of people here are dealing with $500+ items, it can be very risky.
Anyway, there is a huge/long thread in the feedback area about this very topic.
Alright, thanks for reply here. 250 posts is pretty high. 6 mounths is pretty long too. That's sad since I follow that website since a pretty long time but didn't had a forum account.
There is relly no other way to get access to the marketplace? I really need as soon as possible one or two 30" Apple Display in like new/new condition and it seems to be a pain to find nowdays.
It is a small, user2user marketplace, like the market in your town.Ahah Hope I can have access to this thread as soon as possible. Btw, does it's have great things for sell (more than Ebay etc) or it's just as it is on Ebay or anywhere else?
This is a start:I'm highly looking for a 30" Apple display like new/Brand new
I can understand it. They used to have different rules, but had issues with scammers.
What if you only needed a half-bottle? That would have been great!If I remember rightly, the bottom was reached when someone tried (seriously) to sell a half bottle of used men's cologne.
There were problems when the limit was lower and did not have the 180-day length of membership requirement, which is why it is what it is.
Alright, as I'm hardly looking for a Apple display 30", I'd highly like to being able to post in the WTB/FS thread but I can't due to some restrictions here. Actually, I really understand the reasons why it's have a restriction to new members. Though, I think the post limit of 250 and the 6 mounth limit is a little exagerate. I'd put this limit lower to 100/150 posts and maybe 2 mounths. A lot of website require nothing to post in the WTB/FS topics, and the highest post number I already saw is 50, which is actually reasonable when you start to be a part of a community.
Well this is my thoughts/opinion. If you have reasons why the limit is so high, feel free to explain me, but actuall the limit I proposed, is kinda decent IMO.
The rules for the Marketplace are well established and work very well for the forum. This subject is brought up many times and the rules/requirements remain; they're not going to change.
The Marketplace is a perk, a benefit to established members and not the main reason for the forums existence.
The best way to gain access is to make quality, cordial posts and participate in the forums and wait the six months. It's not difficult to make 500 quality posts in that amount of time.
Yea, sure in 6 mounth it isn't hard But yea in the case I need something before I finish school, it's different here. But yea, I understand your points, and I guess it's now more stable now so I can't argue more about it
That's the thing; people don't come here to buy and sell stuff ... they come here for the news, help and discussion. During the course of that, if they want to buy or sell something, there is a place for that.