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[john]

How would we ever know if someone just started posting random shit in the for sale threads? Maybe I could become a parts vender, not telling anyone, and selling stuff in the classifides. I do not really see how this is going to be enforced. How are you going to deal with Mark at TKR who just comes on here posting shit for his shop and never posting? He is selling used parts but still for the shop...

[john]

and yeah, tax can kill some sales and good prices. Let say I was going to buy a $1000 turbo. At 7% sales tax, that is another $70 I would have to pay and the shop would just be writing the check to the government.

[Speedfreak]

I agree with what Shane(ecoli) has said... I would like to here what SLS and QPR have to say on this topic. It is a slightly hairy topic... thus my postponment on replying. I do have concerns with others posting parts for a business.. but do not know how or if it can be controlled. I/we do pay $ to be here, that should get us some kind of exclusivity... If we want to have a price war between us... well thats another thing all together:)

PS: Please people, be nice to all us local vendors... Keep it local.:):)

[AJ]

The more I think about the Best Buy ads and items like that I leaning more to not allowing anything. Cause when I look at it if they want to have thier items on here why not have them pay as well. I think unless it's a personal item that can be listed as an active users classified post I have been thinking of only allowing those who do support the site to sell any items here be it the shops or the members paying to offer their services.

[Halon]

OK so by not allowing anything, what do you mean by that? Any thread concerning a product that isn't from one of the vendors will be removed because they aren't paying so there products should have no part in these forums? Like for example my thread on the JM Intake Manifolds I wanted to get opinions on. I think stuff like that should still be allowed. I searched everywhere for opinions on those and found nothing, so I wanted to ask. Not advertising for them, just trying to find out more about them.

Or what about if we're looking for a part that the local vendors don't sell? Would it be locked because we're asking if anyone knows where to get this part and someone says some shop out of Illinois or something since ours don't carry it. I guess I think that should be allowed as well.

But on the flip side, if your just talking about threads that are blatently pointing someone to another vendor when it's something our vendors could have provided, then I do agree that is kinda crappy for our vendors and should be limited.

[AJ]

Of course if people on on here and asking about specific products and to use an example lets say SLSs manifolds. Someone could post up several differant types and referrer to other sites for purchase or reviews without a problem. But if someone started a thread like "CHeck out these new manifolds" with nothing but a website trying to sell them then we would look at that as againts the rules unless there was a good reason or a new design or something. As always it would probably be up to Admin/moderator discreation.

[Halon]

Of course if people on on here and asking about specific products and to use an example lets say SLSs manifolds. Someone could post up several differant types and referrer to other sites for purchase or reviews without a problem. But if someone started a thread like "CHeck out these new manifolds" with nothing but a website trying to sell them then we would look at that as againts the rules unless there was a good reason or a new design or something. As always it would probably be up to Admin/moderator discreation.

Ya I agree if it's blatently trying to sell something then that's wrong. But if someones posting a legit question about a product from another company, I think that should be ok.

[TheBlizzard]

Posting up and asking a question regarding another product is ok if your are thinking of buying it and you just want opinions, trying to get people to buy it or basically marketing it here is not ok in my book.

CRAIG

[TheBlizzard]

Also another thing that I wanted to add to here is that we will have to take a look at what the people always selling things on here contribute to the site. If all your posts consist of for sale ads and you contribute nothing to the tech sections ect. Then we will have to take a look at whether you are here to be part of the team or just to use DSMStyle as a way to make money. But that is going to open up a another can of worms I imagine.

CRAIG

[Speedfreak]

I think this is going in the right direction...