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Where can we sell games/consoles?
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19-01-2012 11:07am#1I've tried to sell on consoles/games through the boards here before and had posts edited, I'm just curious why we can't have a thread for selling stuff we are no longer using. Adverts is ok, but theres a lot of messing on there sometimes and I occasionally feel that the ads arent getting as much exposure as posting about it on this subforum would. Trading in is fine too, but you get less for it, and they don't often take into account things, for example, whether a 3DS is ambassador certified or not.
I assume its something to do with the rules of the boards, but I was just curious as to which ones and if they could be relaxed in this case... I'm sure some people out there have some gems they'd like to get rid of
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I've tried to sell on consoles/games through the boards here before and had posts edited, I'm just curious why we can't have a thread for selling stuff we are no longer using. Adverts is ok, but theres a lot of messing on there sometimes and I occasionally feel that the ads arent getting as much exposure as posting about it on this subforum would. Trading in is fine too, but you get less for it, and they don't often take into account things, for example, whether a 3DS is ambassador certified or not.
I assume its something to do with the rules of the boards, but I was just curious as to which ones and if they could be relaxed in this case... I'm sure some people out there have some gems they'd like to get rid of
Post it on adverts and put a link to it in your boards signature, you'll get more views that way0 -
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Post in adverts.ie. These forums here are solely for the discussion of games and it would kill discussion here if they became filled with buying and selling adverts. The rules will not be relaxed on this issue.
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No, adverts is more than enough for people. This forum is for game discussion only. If you can't sell stuff on adverts it's not because not enough people see it, it's because your price is too high and/or you've got game nobody wants.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »No, adverts is more than enough for people.
Seems like something a single person shouldn't decide if you ask me... why can the comics subforum have something the games subforum can't? Theres like two half life 3 threads, and the game doesn't even officially exist...cutefainne wrote: »Done Deal would be good. My sis sold her DS there.
Costs money to make a post, would prefer to avoid that
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Seems like something a single person shouldn't decide if you ask me... why can the comics subforum have something the games subforum can't? Theres like two half life 3 threads, and the game doesn't even officially exist...
This was decided here long before I became a mod here and as a regular it's very easy to see why this isn't implimented. This forum is very busy and we get enough traffic that if we allowed adverts it would swamp the forum, bumping discussion threads off the front page and ultimately end up killing the forum. It's the reason adverts.ie was created in the first place. Anyway allowing adverts for such a big section of adverts.ie would end up getting me in trouble with the admins who run both sites. However that isn't even close to the main reason, it's that it will kill this forum if we allow it and therefore it won't be implimented ever.
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If you put a thread like this in the games forum it wouldn't work. The traffic is too great and it would be a mess.
I'm talking about one thread though (like the one in comics) not a new thread for every title people want to sell :pac:
Kind of like the Gaming Bargains thread.
I do also sell some stuff on adverts, but I find some things dont shift fast enough for my liking. Trying to get rid of a slim PS3 right now, has an eagle eye converter for FPS gaming and everything, great games, Blu Rays, but I've had no interest! :pac: Seems like something like that might go faster if it was posted in a thread on here.
No means no
, try DoneDeal, adverts or gumtree there are hundreds of free classifieds sites out there, share your ads via Facebook/twitter for even more exposure. 0 -
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The purpose of this forum is to discuss games, not to help people make a bit of money. Adverts.ie was set up to facilitate people who wanted to buy and sell on the forum, use it. As was mentioned if you aren't shifting what you are selling then lower the price. There's too many people on adverts with an inflated sense of the worth of what they own.
We have three stickies already on the frontpage which the admins have told us is the maximum allowed, I'm not making another one and I'm not going to make a thread that will disappear in a matter of days because some one can't sell something.
There's plenty of other places to sell your goods and you are free to advertise in your sig. The charter stipulates that there is no buying and selling on this forum. I've enough trouble with spammers on the forums I moderate and I don't need more trouble from them either arguing that it's unfair that they can't advertise when others can.
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Your quite right and I bet the OP never considered that, no one wants to be stung with a broken game/console and have zero comeback.
I guess. That's cause my stuff is all in great condition
Just thought it would be a nice feature to have on this subforum, if the mods are that keen on avoiding a bit of work (dunno why theyd even need to be involved at all tbh) theres very little can be done I suppose. Ima put links in my sig then... its just annoying that I cant link to the page with all my ads, have to do it ad by ad...
Whats really frustrating is I have a modded wii cause being a game dev I like to swap out skins and such on wii models... but no... you can't sell modded consoles on Adverts. They let you sell the SERVICE of modding OTHER PEOPLES machines, and they also allow the sale of jailbroken ipads... such hypocracy.0 -
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Another one from the console modding for the purpose of piracy boards... that has a thread for SELLING STUFF THAT COULD EASILY BE BROKEN IN SOME WAY.
But by all means, continue with the troll pictures
My favourite.
For the purposes of piracy? Ads are at my discretion, I dont condone piracy so until you learn some manners/courtesy I'm not happy letting you use the facilities 0 -
until you learn some manners/courtesy
Was I the one that started posting offensive troll pictures was I? Absolute hypocrites the lot of you.
And you're fooling no one with 'not for piracy BS'... only reason that subforum exists is for piracy
And I thought only 3 stickies were allowed? That subforum has 7 or 8!!!0 -
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Was I the one that started posting offensive troll pictures was I? Absolute hypocrites the lot of you.
And you're fooling no one with 'not for piracy BS'... only reason that subforum exists is for piracy
And I thought only 3 stickies were allowed? That subforum has 7 or 8!!!
I shouldn't be feeding the troll, but the forum has nothing to do with piracy & it's not tolerated. Only closed minded people think a modified console automatically means piracy. Have a look at the links on my sig if your up for an education.
If the amount of stickies bothers you, god help you. Life can be so trying at times.
Peace out 0
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