There are a few really annoying things a couple sellers and buyers do that is not only annoying and counterproductive but will probably result in your thread getting closed, removed or you banned. Make sure to avoid them so we can have a clean BST section.
I COPY AND PASTED FROM ANOTHER FORUM - WF uses a different background color for the posts so black on dark gray doesn't work and neither does a bunch of annoying colors. Copy your post into notepad first then format it before posting. Oh and don't call us DP!
I AM SELLING SOMETHING PM ME FOR PRICE - People shouldn't have to PM you to find out if they're interested in what you're selling. That's really really annoying and tells us even you realize you're a ripoff.
I R WRITR THAT DOSENT NO ENGRISH - Save your time. We're not interested.
SELLING LINK BUILDING SERVICES FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE - Tell us where you get the links or at least the type of links they are. Enough of the I'll get you 1k links for $10. We need to know where the links are coming from. Are they directory links? Social bookmarking links? Blog comments or forum spam links? Tell us or we'll assume you're a scam and your account won't last long enough to find out if you got any orders.
I'M SELLING LOGOS/DESIGNS/WRITING SERVICES WITH NO REVIEW COPIES - We don't care about your samples. They tell us nothing about how you conduct business or if you're capable of providing consistently quality work. We're also internet marketers so we DEFINITELY don't care about the "testimonials" on your website. A good rule of thumb is, if you have zero itrader give some review copies to get some.
I HAVE LESS THEN 100 POSTS GIVE ME A REVIEW COPY! - No one cares about what you think of their product and no one intends on buying based on your opinion. If we catch you spamming for review copies you will get a temporary ban.
HEY I'M SELLING THIS TO! - Just because there's no raging party in your sell thread doesn't mean you can start throwing your opinions in every other thread by your competitors. This is called thread hijacking and will usually result in a warning or two then a ban from the BST section.
SELLING BANNED DOMAINS FOR SUPER CHEAP - So you created a bunch of splogs and they got banned now you need to get rid of the domains so you're selling them for cheap here and not telling anyone why you're getting rid of them? Since we often have no way of knowing if the domain has had a ban before we acquire and build on it this typically results in someone buying the domain spending a lot of time and money developing a site on it only to find out the domain was no good and they're shit out of luck. This is a super quick way to really piss me off. I've even caught senior members in the past doing it and it's happened to me. So no one is above the law on this one. I don't care how long it takes me to find out you did this or who you are, you will get banned instantly and permanently if you get caught with no discussion. Accept your $10 loss on the domain if it gets banned or advertise it as banned, there's no point in screwing someone else over in weeks of development time and possibly hundreds to thousands of dollars in staff work so you can recover a measly registration fee.
YOU DON'T KNOW ME BUT I'M SELLING ACCOUNTS - There are legit account sellers who generate the accounts and sell them responsibly. Unfortunately there are others who acquire the accounts by illegal phishing methods or sell the same list of accounts to multiple people any one of which may be using the accounts for highly illegal activities. No one enjoys getting a knock on the door by the feds or getting sued because they logged into an account that they thought was genuinely created just for them using one of their IPs. Frankly, your business in the BST section and your account on this forum is not worth the risk. So unless you already have a senior member here ready to publicly vouch for you and lay their reputation on the line don't bother selling accounts. It will result in an instant ban. I've heard a few complaints about this policy and honestly I don't care. It's a common occurrence on other forums and it only takes one time for a single dishonest person to cause A LOT of damage to good honest people. *This does not apply to accounts that can't really bring any harm to the user such as rapidshare.
MULTIPLE NEW THREADS ON THE SAME SERVICE - If you had an old thread that got closed for being too old it's okay to start a new one, but its not okay to create multiple active threads at once selling your service. We don't want to hear your excuses regarding one of your competitors doing it. If you're part of the trash you'll be part of the cleanup. Got some bad itrader feedback so you want to start a new account and sell using that? Trust me we'll know and you won't be selling anything after that.
NOT DELIVERING YOUR SERVICE TO A MOD AFTER AN ORDER IS PLACED - A REALLY bad idea!
I COPY AND PASTED FROM ANOTHER FORUM - WF uses a different background color for the posts so black on dark gray doesn't work and neither does a bunch of annoying colors. Copy your post into notepad first then format it before posting. Oh and don't call us DP!
I AM SELLING SOMETHING PM ME FOR PRICE - People shouldn't have to PM you to find out if they're interested in what you're selling. That's really really annoying and tells us even you realize you're a ripoff.
I R WRITR THAT DOSENT NO ENGRISH - Save your time. We're not interested.
SELLING LINK BUILDING SERVICES FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE - Tell us where you get the links or at least the type of links they are. Enough of the I'll get you 1k links for $10. We need to know where the links are coming from. Are they directory links? Social bookmarking links? Blog comments or forum spam links? Tell us or we'll assume you're a scam and your account won't last long enough to find out if you got any orders.
I'M SELLING LOGOS/DESIGNS/WRITING SERVICES WITH NO REVIEW COPIES - We don't care about your samples. They tell us nothing about how you conduct business or if you're capable of providing consistently quality work. We're also internet marketers so we DEFINITELY don't care about the "testimonials" on your website. A good rule of thumb is, if you have zero itrader give some review copies to get some.
I HAVE LESS THEN 100 POSTS GIVE ME A REVIEW COPY! - No one cares about what you think of their product and no one intends on buying based on your opinion. If we catch you spamming for review copies you will get a temporary ban.
HEY I'M SELLING THIS TO! - Just because there's no raging party in your sell thread doesn't mean you can start throwing your opinions in every other thread by your competitors. This is called thread hijacking and will usually result in a warning or two then a ban from the BST section.
SELLING BANNED DOMAINS FOR SUPER CHEAP - So you created a bunch of splogs and they got banned now you need to get rid of the domains so you're selling them for cheap here and not telling anyone why you're getting rid of them? Since we often have no way of knowing if the domain has had a ban before we acquire and build on it this typically results in someone buying the domain spending a lot of time and money developing a site on it only to find out the domain was no good and they're shit out of luck. This is a super quick way to really piss me off. I've even caught senior members in the past doing it and it's happened to me. So no one is above the law on this one. I don't care how long it takes me to find out you did this or who you are, you will get banned instantly and permanently if you get caught with no discussion. Accept your $10 loss on the domain if it gets banned or advertise it as banned, there's no point in screwing someone else over in weeks of development time and possibly hundreds to thousands of dollars in staff work so you can recover a measly registration fee.
YOU DON'T KNOW ME BUT I'M SELLING ACCOUNTS - There are legit account sellers who generate the accounts and sell them responsibly. Unfortunately there are others who acquire the accounts by illegal phishing methods or sell the same list of accounts to multiple people any one of which may be using the accounts for highly illegal activities. No one enjoys getting a knock on the door by the feds or getting sued because they logged into an account that they thought was genuinely created just for them using one of their IPs. Frankly, your business in the BST section and your account on this forum is not worth the risk. So unless you already have a senior member here ready to publicly vouch for you and lay their reputation on the line don't bother selling accounts. It will result in an instant ban. I've heard a few complaints about this policy and honestly I don't care. It's a common occurrence on other forums and it only takes one time for a single dishonest person to cause A LOT of damage to good honest people. *This does not apply to accounts that can't really bring any harm to the user such as rapidshare.
MULTIPLE NEW THREADS ON THE SAME SERVICE - If you had an old thread that got closed for being too old it's okay to start a new one, but its not okay to create multiple active threads at once selling your service. We don't want to hear your excuses regarding one of your competitors doing it. If you're part of the trash you'll be part of the cleanup. Got some bad itrader feedback so you want to start a new account and sell using that? Trust me we'll know and you won't be selling anything after that.
NOT DELIVERING YOUR SERVICE TO A MOD AFTER AN ORDER IS PLACED - A REALLY bad idea!
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