For sale area?

[Brewc]

Hey guys been a member since 2014 and I thought there was a for sale area here did it disappear?

 

[Apple_Robert]

You have to have at least 250 posts and be a member for 6+ months before you can access the Marketplace Forum.

 

[squawk7000]

From the forum FAQs

You will not see the Marketplace forum until you qualify to use it. To qualify, you need a history of 250 posts (user title 6502 or higher) and membership for at least 6 months.

Once you qualify, it will appear in the MacRumors Community section of the forums.

 

[Brewc]

Well I must be short of the 250 lol

 

[Apple fanboy]

Well I must be short of the 250 lol

You need another 188.

 

[Brewc]

Well then it might take me another 10 years lol

 

[Apple fanboy]

Well then it might take me another 10 years lol

Just look around and find subjects that interest you. There’s a lot of different areas of interest on here.

 

[Brewc]

Ohh I do, I’m just more of a lurker I guess.

 

[BreakYurAnkles]

You have to have at least 250 posts and be a member for 6+ months before you can access the Marketplace Forum.

why the requirements?

 

[NoBoMac]

Marketplace Rules

Jump to: Can't Find the Marketplace? | General Rules | Rules for Sellers | Rules for Buyers The Marketplace forums are provided as a service to qualified MacRumors members, allowing them to buy/sel...

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The requirements for post count and length of membership are designed to limit those offering sales, purchases, or trades to members who have been around the forums enough to become known and have an investment in their MacRumors membership that they are unlikely to want to risk. Although new members or members with fewer posts may be perfectly responsible buyers or sellers, other members have few ways to confirm that at MacRumors. The lack of a post history in the discussion forums has proven to be a detriment to successful dealmaking. The requirement for length of membership will not be an issue for most members, but discourages rapid posting by new members who might try to build their post count to gain Marketplace access quickly.

 

[BreakYurAnkles]

While its understandable to have *some* requirements.

The requirements in place are just plain patronizing.

The post count AND 6 months/180 days half a year? 60-90 days max, that's 2-5 posts per day/7-10 posts a week. That's very realistic, no?

I get they want the people who post to have a "investment" within the forum so members "feel" comfortable dealing with them.

But that's just patronizing and drawn out.

Members should be able to deal with whomever they'd like. They do their own due diligence, and be smart about online trades/payments. It should really be a required reading and accept T&C's for any member.

Also adding a feedback score would be extremely helpful. MacRumors has a big business opportunity for 2nd hand apple marketplace (and analytics + data) that it should be promoted. Take fee's too. Make some profit, I understand its not free to run a forum.

I get it, and if I want access to said Apple focused Marketplace, I have no choice.

Well... the dude abides...

 

[Brewc]

No one is ever going to like certain rules. I was asking because I thought when I first joined that it wasn’t hidden. That’s good far back to remember for someone who saw their first Mac in 1986, Mackintosh when the high school opened a computer lab for English classes.