I am not sure where to post this, so I am posting to the general forum, but I have been concerned about something for a little while.
I have posted some items in the DML Classifieds, and browse others from time to time. Most of the time people a posting directly: stuff they no longer need, things that were upgraded, etc... This is a wonderful opportunity to buy and sell in a communal fashion, made possible free of charge by DML (Thank you). We are an online community, and commerce is a part of that - you can offer/recieve a fair price to/from your on-line neighbour, and make a friend in the mean-time.
Once in a while there are ads from Spareshack, Motowheels and Motostrano. They are sort of community stores and pay tithe to the website owners, since they have to pay for their classifieds.
And of course there are those ads that just contain links to eBay auctions. In my oppinion, this is abuse. People intent on making the absolute most (and that is what an international online auction does) from a sale, should pay the DML Admins, just like the online merchants. They are basically using the DML Classifieds to advertise items listed on another COMMERCIAL site - eBay.
My 2 Cents.
Am I completely out of line?
Let me know,
Mike.
I have posted some items in the DML Classifieds, and browse others from time to time. Most of the time people a posting directly: stuff they no longer need, things that were upgraded, etc... This is a wonderful opportunity to buy and sell in a communal fashion, made possible free of charge by DML (Thank you). We are an online community, and commerce is a part of that - you can offer/recieve a fair price to/from your on-line neighbour, and make a friend in the mean-time.
Once in a while there are ads from Spareshack, Motowheels and Motostrano. They are sort of community stores and pay tithe to the website owners, since they have to pay for their classifieds.
And of course there are those ads that just contain links to eBay auctions. In my oppinion, this is abuse. People intent on making the absolute most (and that is what an international online auction does) from a sale, should pay the DML Admins, just like the online merchants. They are basically using the DML Classifieds to advertise items listed on another COMMERCIAL site - eBay.
My 2 Cents.
Am I completely out of line?
Let me know,
Mike.
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