why?

TerminatorX5 · #1 05-21-2014, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Z@T

I bought the best stuff out of forums in the last 14 years.

Why would you limit the items by ~90% for your community?

That hurts more the community than the seller.

This forum is not that busy, I doubt that someone would pay to reach a handful more potential buyers.

on the contrary, i would say that this forum is busier than some others... well, maybe not as busy as ebay or craigslist, though...

you still can buy whatever you want from whoever is selling on this forum, no need to be a premier member to buy things... but if you are using this venue to make or recover invested money, it comes with the paid membership... rules have been the same for almost 10 years now and have not changed...

I have premier membership for couple of years, and only mentioned one item for sale so far - i did not get the premier account to sell things, it is to support the site... your reasoning for getting membership or not getting it could be anything else...

Z@T · #2 05-21-2014, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TerminatorX5

on the contrary, i would say that this forum is busier than some others... well, maybe not as busy as ebay or craigslist, though...

you still can buy whatever you want from whoever is selling on this forum, no need to be a premier member to buy things... but if you are using this venue to make or recover invested money, it comes with the paid membership... rules have been the same for almost 10 years now and have not changed...

I have premier membership for couple of years, and only mentioned one item for sale so far - i did not get the premier account to sell things, it is to support the site... your reasoning for getting membership or not getting it could be anything else...

Interesting thought.

I agree it will help to keep scam of the board. But this could be solved with a minimum amount of posts or registered time.

Since X model are not the most enthusiast oriented model BMW has, that is true that here are some posts. However compared to example M3forum, here is nothing going on at all where the FS section is booming.

I understand that someone thought that was a great idea 10 years ago, nothing against supporting the forum. Time has changed and enthusiasts share rather their deal with enthusiasts. This hurts the premier member on this board the same way as not premier members.

Example:
I just bought, on a different Forum, my from BMW painted (in 2013) flares with not a single scratch shipped for less money that the "great price ebay e70 flares". The user had ~60 posts and was working on getting his car back to stock.

I bet a premier member on this board would have loved to grab this deal.

Correct me if I'm wrong.. I just try to understand why you would force someone to be a premier member to sell and keep deal away from the community.