For sale section

I have noticed more and more people are using this Commando topics page as a for sale notice board. I know that Jerry tried a dedicated 'for sale' section some time back without much success, but might now be the right time to retry a dedicated sale or swap section?

+1 on a dedicated for sale/swap/barter section; I was surprised that there wasn't one from the get-go.

RS

Perhaps anybody interested in a sale or swap could put SALE: or SWAP: first in the subject line. If there aren't too many posts, Jerry can leave things as they are. If there seems to be enough traffic to warrant adding a forum, I'm sure he would.

As Dave stated, it was tried before. No need for Jerry to set it up again unless demand warrants.

Sorry, I posted my project for sale here recently. Reading this, I feel a bit bad about adding unwanted clutter. Can I delete the thread? it hasn't gotten any replies.

In the past, I liked reading posts about parts for sale or auctions on ebay. If I end up parting it out, do you think it's useful to post here, or just more clutter?

cheers,
Noah

noco said:

Sorry, I posted my project for sale here recently. Reading this, I feel a bit bad about adding unwanted clutter. Can I delete the thread? it hasn't gotten any replies.

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Noah,

There's no real problem at the moment with members who occasionally use the forum to sell/swap Norton related items.
As dave M said, Jerry did try adding a "For Sale" section for about six months some while ago, but nobody actually used it.

Just a suggestion;

The "Anything else Motorcycle Related" section could be changed to include ads., so would become the "For Sale, and Anything else Motorcycle Related" section? As it's somewhat under-used as it is, which may encourage more people to use that part of the forum, rather than adding a completely separate 'For Sale' section that on average, may only be used a couple of times each month?

L.A.B. I like your idea of re-naming that section.

I hope I have not been abusive of posting bikes & projects for sale, I have prefaced the thread titles properly, and always Norton Commando related (the "several projects & bikes" post had 2 Commando projects).

I usually just lurk on the forum, but my two cents here... I don't mind at all the occasional posts from community members advertising sales, especially as it is not uncommon for the items to be offered for a bit of a discount over what could be had at E-Bay, etc. Enthusiasts helping enthusiasts... would definitely be nasty if it became another way of generating E-bay auction traffic, but I haven't witnessed any gross violations here (although perhaps the moderators delete those too quick for me to notice)...

- HJ

Hungry J0e said:

but I haven't witnessed any gross violations here (although perhaps the moderators delete those too quick for me to notice)...

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No, not one...not that I'm aware of, perhaps Jerry has, I don't know.

And I'm sure if Jerry thought otherwise about posting ads he would have let us know about it? In any case, this is a reasonably relaxed and easy going forum, with very few rules and regulations, (I don't think anyone has even needed to be warned about their conduct?) and it's a credit to our members that we do not seem to need very many rules here?



Perhaps there's just a higher proportion of sensible and level-headed people amongst Norton owners?.....


.....OK....only joking!