AirSpeed VW Community Forums
General Forums => Air Speed Lounge => Topic started by: Chris on November 15, 2012, 04:35:22 PM
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Whats your thought?
I have been asked a lot over the past while to delete posts in the classifieds and I don't like doing it. It can be time consuming and I volunteer my time here.
I personally like to have the old ads available to use as a reference when searching for parts and prices.
Its of no consequence to the server that hosts this site, and costs no more or less.
This is a community forum, so other than Silas, how do you all feel about it?
Chris
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I feel very strongly about leaving them up...it leaves a searchable record to show how often the parts come up, and what their worth is. I find them very valuable from both a seller and buyer perspective.
The original poster simply needs to do the following:
1) Reply to their post saying "Item has been sold"
2) Bonus points: Edit original post subject to add "Sold"
Editing out prices, and information in a post defeats the purpose of having an online record for the community to see.
-Dave
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A history of sold items can be helpful and deleting ads takes way too much time.
Once posted the ad stays. As mentioned feel free to edit your orig ads.
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I agree as well, leave them and don't edit it to a blank page that says "please delete" or something like that, add "sold" but leave the rest alone.
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Whats your thought?
I have been asked a lot over the past while to delete posts in the classifieds and I don't like doing it. It can be time consuming and I volunteer my time here.
I personally like to have the old ads available to use as a reference when searching for parts and prices.
Its of no consequence to the server that hosts this site, and costs no more or less.
This is a community forum, so other than Silas, how do you all feel about it?
Chris
:stupid: ;D :angel: :cool:
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Agreed.. Makes me dream about what I 'could' have bought. And knowing who to get said item.. when said person is scrambling for cash or their other half finds out they bought it.. lol ;)
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My opinion on this varies somewhat. First, I would never research values on a smallish community site like this (could never provide enough examples and varying conditions of specific parts). There is much more volume and variety on a site like the samba / ebay. I often edit the asking price on my ads once parts have sold (and that's all it is is asking price....you don't actually see what anything has sold for) as a courtesy to the buyer. If they wish to resell an item I don't want them to be restricted by what the item previously sold for (values change and sometime items are undervalued to move them).
When I sell something..I usually edit the title to say sold and edit my last post to say sold. I don't see the value in hitting reply to say sold as it bumps the ad up and clutters up the classifieds for people still trying to sell their stuff.
I'm all for leaving the rest of the body of an ad up. No need to waste any of the admins time. There are times I wish I could delete my own ads though. Just feel a bit stupid sometimes as I change my mind often on things I want to sell/keep and I'd just make ya all dizzy I'm sure ;)
Oh yeah if searching for parts it actually works against you if you to leave old ads up. You get a crapload of other sold ads come up. Also I can never figure out why when I do a search, results are all over the map and not chronological.
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or a different search function where you could sort by date?
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Advanced search function does all of that
http://www.airspeedparts.com/forums/index.php?action=search;advanced;search=
I have also added a new link on the top for the advanced search
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take them all down. that way i can charge more on the second go!!!