Need advice to respond to for sale ads

Hi Clete,

Did you check you SPAM folder for any possible responses from the seller?

If the seller's email doesn't work, there is nothing you or I can do about that. That is a problem only he can fix.

Your first post was likely deleted because we don't allow "Contact Me" posts.

yes I checked my SPAM folder. Thanks.

in the interest of helping  fellow forum members, maybe you should consider allowing " Contact Me" posts. I can't imagine there would be so many posts to create a problem. Thanks. Clete

Clete, we used to allow it and got MANY complaints from members about "spam "Contact Me" posts from less than honorable people. And that's putting it politely.

That's why we don't allow them any more.

Rich Melvin posted:

Clete, we used to allow it and got MANY complaints from members about "spam "Contact Me" posts from less than honorable people. And that's putting it politely.

That's why we don't allow them any more.

Thank you. Clete

Clete, you don't list an e-mail in your profile either.  A new contact may expect to see one listed there. One that matches the one in the email you sent them. 

Someone could claim to be me in a random email to you, but that would not verify it's really me.

However ,if you see an email in my profile that matches the request to respond, you be pretty sure it's really me and not a scammer claiming to be me (or all my online accounts got stolen).

I'm not saying that no address listed here is the cause; but it might be. I might not have answered you either. To be honest. ....likely not unless we had a bit of posting contacts before.

Maybe start a new email account just for public contact, make your normal account able  to read the new account, but give the new account no power over the normal account. 😉  List it just while "shopping", etc. and pull it off the rest of the time if you want to; but super-spam hasn't hit me it years now.

The little spam I see anymore is too sparse to notice really.

...(insert obligatory 2020 Monty Python Spam joke here 🙃)

Excellent point about the profile address, it's the pot calling the kettle black.

Rich Melvin posted:

Clete, we used to allow it and got MANY complaints from members about "spam "Contact Me" posts from less than honorable people. And that's putting it politely.

That's why we don't allow them any more.

AGREED! I had several over my long venue of postings on this forum.

 I am sorry, Yes I am guilty for not having my email shown public, I just corrected that. If someone looked at my profile they could see I am not a spammer, I have been a forum member for 5 years and have posted in the past.

This was not a case of the Pot calling the Kettle black. I was asking for help to contact a fellow member 

Thank you. Clete

Clete, send me an email (the address is in my profile) with the name and email address of the member you are trying to reach. Don't post it here. I'll see what I can find out for you.

Clete posted:

This was not a case of the Pot calling the Kettle black. I was asking for help to contact a fellow member 

Just having a little fun with you, no offense intended.   FWIW, I've had similar experiences at times with the for-sale ads.  After a couple tries, I figured I was not intended to own the item in question and move on.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Clete posted:

This was not a case of the Pot calling the Kettle black. I was asking for help to contact a fellow member 

Just having a little fun with you, no offense intended.   FWIW, I've had similar experiences at times with the for-sale ads.  After a couple tries, I figured I was not intended to own the item in question and move on.

No offense taken.  I asked a question and I found my answer.  Thanks. Clete

Is it possible to consider setting up a seperate For Sale/Wanted page?

They appear to remain active in the post pages long after they've become obsolete.

@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:

Is it possible to consider setting up a seperate For Sale/Wanted page?

They appear to remain active in the post pages long after they've become obsolete.

There already is a “For Sale” section. People just need to follow the rules and make sure their email is in their profile for contact.