Reservations discussion

I wouldn’t encourage this unless it was a not for profit type arrangement to help out fellow boards users. Legitimate expenses to be covered but anything further is just price gouging. The motor trade has enough of that already.

Is this to be encouraged? Really? And post will be deleted if anybody complains? Wow...

If you encourage free market rules, that's fine (not so fine with a lot of us), but at least allow for freedom of speech on a forum board??

Sticky as well "facepalm"

You might want to read the charter for this forum.

No advertising - if you have something to sell then use www.adverts.ie, not here! Items put up for sale will result in the advert being removed and the user getting banned

Adverts has no connection to boards anymore AFAIK

If I say a wrong I’ll point it out.

I'm with @liamog on this one. It will be easy spot the buyers who pulled out for a genuine reason to those who just put down deposits with never any intention of purchasing.

I created the thread which became a sticky not because i agree with it but i thought it important to highkight it.

Whilst I have no problem with those profiting from selling their reservation to the highest bidder I dont agree it being done here. Let them do it on donedeal or facebook but on a forum for EV enthusiasts, it should be discouraged. Scalpers should not be entertained here. There are other mediums to pry their business.

Why not make it clear that it should be a non profit transaction from the start?

You have already changed to original post to remove the queue skipping by paying a negotiated amount, just make it clear what is acceptable from the get go otherwise you will get someone putting up a reservation and requesting a “pm with offers” type of post.

I can see both sides tbh, especially regarding people's change in circumstances.

I've a deposit down, lose my job, would like my money back. - These folk (I'd imagine) wouldn't care about their profit. Just getting their money back.

I'd love a Taycan and just won the cashcall on Newstalk. - Folk with money can pay to jump the queue, just depends on how much their willing to part with.

I think there should be a rule that a reservation can't be sold for less than the original amount + cost of transfer (if applicable) ie. the original poster isn't 1c out of pocket. This would stop people taking advantage of someone that's fallen on hard times, or just changed their mind.

Other than that, I think it should be a free market. If someone is happy to give me €2k for my €1k deposit, shur we're both delighted.

Those arguing that it goes against this and that, those lamenting about the old day of Boards...I get it. But everything's changing (not always for the better), but sometimes you just gotta suck it and see. I still want the old Boards layout back, but I'm not gonna boycott this place as I'm the one that ends up losing.

I know this post makes no difference to anything. But all I know is if I'd a depsoit and fell on hard times, it'd stick in my craw to have to try sell it on DoneDeal or Adverts and deal with lowball offers and "would you take my iPad and €500" merchants.

The warning is way OTT and completely unnecessary. It obviously isn't being enforced either as this thread would be blank if it was! 😂

That was kinda my point.

If you're using a sob story, you're not gonna be asking for more than your deposit. You said yourself that you'd have been happy to get half it back.

If someone can make a few bob, more power to them. Moreso if someone can afford to pay the premium.

But someone that's only looking for their deposit back, whether supplying a sob story or not, should be helped out as best we can. I know if I was looking to throw a deposit on something and someone here was enabling me to jump the queue for no additional money, I'd be biting their hand off.

As for using the normal sale thread. That's more chat (from me included) than anything, so things are liable to get lost.

I really don't know what the rights and wrongs are. Like I said orignially, I can see both sides.

@liamog can you clarify if you are allowing individuals to make a profit on their reservation? for example selling a fully refundable tesla online reservation for more than the deposit paid?

Sounds very complicated, why would there be a temporary insurance transfer? How do you see a typical reservation sale working?