Well, 1st of all, I know the main point lowyat.net created is not to serve as trading platform. However, it's just so unavoidable, because some of the members here able to get good prices for new products or even get products not available at local market. However, recently moderator is aggresively monitoring the thread in bulk section and garage sales to make sure the members follow rules set in bulk section. So i'm now suggesting a solution for all of us with the purpose, easy for the seller and buyer to seggregate themselves the different.

I'm suggesting if we could have 3 subforum in the trading. With
Bulk Section - which handling things unavailable with the seller, but bulk to get good prices.
Trading Section - which handling things available with the seller, no need to bulk nor any MOQ available.
2nd hand section - which deals with the second hand things which unnecessary for some users but would like to trade them to gain a few penny. (This is going to replace current garage sales)

How's that suggestion? Any comments? The name of the section maybe change to other that have better wording tho... Any one have better idea? Please contribute, this is our community afterall

This post has been edited by keith_hjinhoh: Apr 28 2007, 02:52 AM

Then there's going to be a lot lot of sub sub forumss

just 3 only ma

bulk,new,2nd hand.....

then ppl will suggest phone, memory, etc etc subforum for each one +.+

The distinction between 'where the goods is with the seller' and 'where the goods is not yet with the seller' is a bit grey and may need a rethink. We've been thinking about it forever but haven't gotten around to making any changes.. I'm not sure if we will just yet since the more changes we make the more confused people get.

But I think Bulk section still need to available. Well, if people don't mind having a lot of subforums, i think separate it to Bulk, New Items For Sale and Second Hand Item for Sale Section is ok. But will it affect the whole forum site for having such many subforums?? Like will it lag, lag, lag then server down~~~.??

Like the Chinese saying, give them 1 cm, they want 1 metre instead. I guess we should be sensible with our requests, more changes mean more work for the forum admins, staffs and moderation team. Later the big boss charge all members RM88 monthly to access LYN then you know b'coz need to cover extra operating costs of the forum.

or implement the second topic tag?
the forumers can sort themselves...

if want to revamp. Each user can open only one thread in each forum. how's bout that?

i like the idea of limiting # of threads. haven't work out the details yet, but perhaps you guys could chip in.

some times it's ridiculous to come in and see the same dude bumping like 5 - 20 of his own thread.

the problem i see is there's no clear rule / details on how a person should split their sale, or merge their sale.

Maybe you could limit the dude to x number of thread bumps per day. That could be a less restrictive way.

I doubt that a lots user trying to opens multiple thread with a same brand item but with different capacity. I think 1 threads for each forum is sufficient enough. User can insert 10 items, 20 items in one thread(but not under 1 post la)

While mod maybe can move out those IT products (except for selling own thing where include of table, used monitor) from garage sales to their respective sub forum(including mine too hehe).

how about limit that person to 1 thread per tag?

per tag =.= cannot lar... coz got quite a lot tag there.

dont limit la...
i believe some ppl sell some variety of stuffs
so , they need to put dif threads so that wont pening.
also its easier for us to find what we want

If you limit number of thread per account user, it won't serve any purpose as well, it will only cause more members to create multiple accounts and sell from multiple accounts.

1) We can detect it unless he plays it very very safe which is also very troublesome
2) New accounts will find it hard to sell due to reputation, so it's not as effective to keep creating accounts everytime 1 gets banned

As for not limiting at all, u really think it's not a problem for a single user to have 40 seperate threads alone?

that's about 2 pages.

Yupp, just did a rough count and the number is actually closer to 75 threads (3 pages)
Guess it wouldn't be nice to start naming them, but there are such ppl

I sometimes wonder how can they manage so many thread in 1 day, put them in one thread is a much cleaner and easier solution, but if the item they selling is not really related (eg. phone with processor) then it might be hard for them also