Hi Jerry (et. al.), Yes, let's have some updated selling guidelines. Reasonable ones. And as someone nicely pointed out, there are well-established websites (like qrz.com or qth.com) if you want to sell your antique Morse code key or your multiband linear.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seemed to me that: 1. Someone offered something for sale that was mainly of interest to Topbanders. A famous Topbander (W8JI) designed it with Topbanders in mind. I believe that ON4UN tacitly agreed by including it in his book. 2. However, that was quickly followed by more For Sale items that were *not*. Those posts became the *real* issue, and nothing further would have been said about the DXE NCC-1 *if* the other FS items had not followed. 3. There was nothing wrong with the NCC-1 listing, since so many Topbanders either own or would love to own one. Right? (Rhetorical question.) This entire issue erupted with the subsequent FS posts. IMHO, *a few* *160m-specific* items --that would definitely interest a fair number of us-- should be allowed here. (Some examples might be Beverage antenna control boxes, 160m RX arrays, or even an occasional monoband amplifier or filter, either RX or TX.) Any further communications about such items should be off-reflector, except for an "Item is Sold" post. Now, I hear what everyone is thinking: *it could get out of hand*. Well, if and when that happens, then Tree --perhaps with other longtime Topband Gentlemen™ here-- will address that for us in the future (which has not yet arrived). But let's speculate a little ... - Let's say there were too many matching transformers, etc. this quarter? *Then disallow items under a certain value.* - Many items for sale that are from newbies? *Then only allow long-time members to sell items.* * - *We could even disallow listings that include "Other items for sale, contact me for a complete list". It goes without saying that commercial FS listings have never been allowed, and that's probably the way it should continue to be. In summary: allowing an occasional FS item (as outlined above) is not going to turn this fine reflector into a little qth.com. This is my one-time $0.02 worth about this. I did not intend for it to be an all-or-nothing or all-inclusive list; I only intended for this to be a starting point for others to build on, if someone desires to. No private replies please, they will be deleted (unless you are Tree. :-) 73, Mike W0BTU On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, 3:16 PM K4SAV <radi...@charter.net> wrote: > I just looked thru a bunch of old Topband messages and found 130 > messages pertaining to FOR SALE items. Many of those were when the > forum was under different management however. Perhaps it is time to > reissue the guidelines on FOR SALE items. > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector