i thought i nutted out a series of reasonably clear issues in my first post, which a few reasonable folk agree with. the apparent lack of any interest in either the issues themselves or even some acknowledgment of the posts at all from the board side of the fence has got my goat little...
specifically with your group buy...
- firstly, whats with the random number 25? whats that set? you dont meet 25 you cant go ahead with the buy? (asdie: good luck sorting out the refunds when it only gets to 24) but anyways...youve gone over 25. does that breach something? i thought the board wanted to control numbers and account for everything. or not? now the number of items your selling is no longer a fixed 'group buy' as is typical in regular instances. instead youre basically the unpaid middleman for cary, selling as many of his items as the forums can buy. which appears to be all of them, if not more. there is no set limit other than his stock level or ability to produce more.
now if all the board cares about is that YOU dont take a left over and sell it on ebay, well, thats a bit retarded, as cary is definietly making a wad of cash off the forums (without being a paying sponsor) and in another heartbeat the board would normally be on the phone infracting someone else in another thread for some kind of unauthorised commercial sale without sponsors authority. what if cary just wanted to sell his bushes without your help? same price, same discount. whats the nuance that makes the difference? (please note, i dont have a singlevthing against your group buy, im up for ANY strategy that gets peopele the parts they need at good prices, just using it as a talking point)
yours is just a case to explore exactly what and how this new batch of rules really mean to achieve. 'profiteering'? man, theres 100's of factors not accounted for in these list of rules that will do nothing to inhibit someone from achieving that aim. i dont think the board really has a handle on whats involved in group buys, and the rules theyve implemented are well meant, but hardly comprehensive enough to cover the scope of issues that arise within group buy contexts. as i said in my first post, all well and good to introduce rules, but then you need to implement them, and as seen, the ability of the board to respond in a timely fashion to negotiate things is lack lustre at best, so im interested to se how they expect to roll it out and make it work
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