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Flofocus,Nov 23 2005, 03:04 PM Wrote:this is dumb. The xbox is on ebay.  Anyone want it?  BerinG can provide the link in OT.  For now this is closed.
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I closed the thread in for sale because it was going to start a bidding war that was based on making profit a la the ebayers reselling. Which I didn't think appropriate for the FS forum.

Why?

because,
1) the I don't allow people to call out sellers in FS, and that thread would incite a lot of name calling and low-balling.

2) For sale is for members to offer deals to other fellow members. I don't want to encourage people to go out, buy a boatload of stuff they don't need, and then try to dump it via the site.

I don't have anything against Bering for posting it. I think he has every right to throw it up for sale to the highest bidder. I just didn't think it appropriate for 'for sale'. I'm trying to be fair with everyone, and I've shut down other for sale threads that I thought unfair to the uneducated buyer, or against the intended purpose of the for sale section.

And for non-sponsor companies whoring their wares on the site, we're trying to cut back on that as well. A free site isn't here for people to personally profit from the already established community.

i wish I could put it better so that people understand that what BerinG did isn't a bad thing, and he has a right to do so, but I also didn't think it appropriate for the for sale forum in this case. that's all, end of story.

People aren't going to always agree with people reselling consoles, but you don't have to buy them either...

and nobody has to go calling other people names..

wow.. another thread totally blown out of proportion... :ph34r: