Thread: Can't Ship? Don't Sell!

Actually it's not funny at all, and you made yourself the topic of conversation.

Let us know with the Report Post feature please.

anyone want to sell something....
* have an accurate description, maybe a pic, be real with it. your gunna get questions, and opinions, and shit maybe.be nice.
* make sure its for sale (not that hard really, if you dont really want to sell it, call it an EOI, it will give you time to back out/change your mind)
*have a price (dont suddenly make it $300 dearer)
*have it wrapped up, ready to go, before you get paid (very very very hard bit...apparently)
* send it...the very next day you get paid (impossible?)
*show i pic of it in a box with the buyers name and address on it, a con note/tracking number (very helpful)
* finally relax and enjoy your profit and positive feedback.

is it really that hard? EDIT..yeh i guess it must be...

This man gets it and he is from the land down under!

This message is fully endorsed by the "Can't Ship? Don't Sell!" campaign 2014.

LOL!

More people just need to use the feedback/itrader options. After 1 week, leave feedback. Cause by then you know if it shipped or not. "Out of control" classifieds? That's going a little too far.

What I do is text the person the tracking # or if I don't have their # I PM them a cell phone pic of the receipt so they can read it that way. and yes I always ship within 36 hours at the most unless I'm paypaled like Friday night at 11pm I have to wait until Monday. THE KEY is to have PACKAGING SUPPLIES around at all times, well stocked. I have about 4 rolls of packing tape, and about 20 boxes of different sizes

Once again, not my words. BenFenner made this thread and gave it the thread title.

You guys should have seen the other SR20 forum back 10 years ago. Scammers basically invaded the place. Even I got ripped for fucking $500.00! and never caught the guy, and the cops called me like a year later after I pressed charges.

Idea: how about a sticky at the top of each classifieds section that outlines buyer and seller expectations. Or make a page where the seller has to click boxes showing they understand the expectations before the fs thread can be posted. Could also include profiles for good sellers, mediocre sellers, annoying sellers, and poor sellers. Same for buyers.

Idea for a requirement: Once money is sent, seller must update the buyer every 3-4 days until the item is shipped. Failure to maintain communication results in selling privileges being revoked.

Another requirement idea: Must use shipping that provides tracking, or require seller to state otherwise.

Also, I wonder if requiring people to leave feedback might hurt more than help. I think people dont leave negative feedback on minor issues because they dont want to cause waves. So instead of just not leaving feedback, a person might leave positive feedback which would be misleading for others.

Just throwing some ideas out there..