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Question about the Buy & Sale Trader Forum?
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Phono-Phan
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Re: Question about the Buy & Sale Trader Forum?
By far, my experiences with members of this forum have been very positive with only a few minor negatives. Even the minor negatives don't keep me from supporting members here. This has been a great hobby for over 30 years and I have met some wonderful people. I have been helped by some great members here and I hope that I have been able to reciprocate. It would be best just to keep a positive attitude and go forward.
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Valecnik
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Re: Question about the Buy & Sale Trader Forum?
I agree. I've had just one bad experience with a misrepresentation on Yankee Trader. I did not make it public but the person knows. Still better than my track record with eBAY.Phono-Phan wrote:By far, my experiences with members of this forum have been very positive with only a few minor negatives. Even the minor negatives don't keep me from supporting members here. This has been a great hobby for over 30 years and I have met some wonderful people. I have been helped by some great members here and I hope that I have been able to reciprocate. It would be best just to keep a positive attitude and go forward.
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Marco Gilardetti
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Re: Question about the Buy & Sale Trader Forum?
As said, being unpolite can be both on the seller's and buyer's part.
I very rarely check the Yankee Trader because, as the title implies, 99% of the ads are located in the USA and it's definitely not fun to go there and see that great online market, of which I can't take any advantage.
However, before summer I was attracted by an ad for a Columbia AB. A member of this forum - with a huge numer of posts - wrote that he was helping "another member of this forum" ("quotes") to sell out his collection. There were many ads like that repeated for many different gramophones and phonographs. Each ad had the respective gram/phono pictured with a pitiful image, taken perhaps with a cellphone. The ad said to write and ask for more pictures, conditions, etc.
The whole thing of a member helping another member to sell out his collection sounded ridicolous, and normally I would skip a pathetic ad like that. But as a Columbia AB was at stake, I thought that PM-ing both the ad poster as well as the "collector" would cost me nothing after all.
You guessed it: of course nobody ever replied. I still ask myself why should a seemingly respectable user of this forum want to waste his time by posting repeated, useless, quite stupid ads, and most of all not reply to those who inquire.
I very rarely check the Yankee Trader because, as the title implies, 99% of the ads are located in the USA and it's definitely not fun to go there and see that great online market, of which I can't take any advantage.
However, before summer I was attracted by an ad for a Columbia AB. A member of this forum - with a huge numer of posts - wrote that he was helping "another member of this forum" ("quotes") to sell out his collection. There were many ads like that repeated for many different gramophones and phonographs. Each ad had the respective gram/phono pictured with a pitiful image, taken perhaps with a cellphone. The ad said to write and ask for more pictures, conditions, etc.
The whole thing of a member helping another member to sell out his collection sounded ridicolous, and normally I would skip a pathetic ad like that. But as a Columbia AB was at stake, I thought that PM-ing both the ad poster as well as the "collector" would cost me nothing after all.
You guessed it: of course nobody ever replied. I still ask myself why should a seemingly respectable user of this forum want to waste his time by posting repeated, useless, quite stupid ads, and most of all not reply to those who inquire.