[Closed] Auction site question to the Administrators.........

You can email your questions to either jay@diecast.org or john@diecast.org

Another quick auction question.....

If the higher ups here want to prevent back door deals, I totally get that. But the seller is clearly listed in the auction, so what will stop a potential back door deal if somebody asks the seller for his email address right here on the forum?

I see it often, that members ask other members for their email addresses on this and other forums.

And you might say we are running on the honest policy here, so this shouldn't happen, so if that is the case, why the big change?

"..so what will stop a potential back door deal..

... if somebody asks the seller for his email address right here on the forum?"

Hopefully? Just honesty.

"Hopefully? Just honesty"..............

I addressed that in my third paragraph above.

Is honesty (or the lack of) the virtue that changed the auction system?

What I am trying to ask is, if the auction rules were changed due to dishonest back door deals, and there should be no communication between buyer and seller without a middleman, what is stopping the potential buyer from asking the seller for his contact information right here on the forum?

Like I mentioned above, I see members exchanging email addresses all the time.

If you are relying on honesty, then why the change?

Maybe the only option is to hide the buyers and sellers identity like ebay does.

I am not trying to start a firestorm here. I am just trying to point out a glitch.

Just my 2 dollars (inflation, you know).

Many of the sellers on the auction don't post here or on the other forums. So, you won't see the email exchanges for them.

Those who post on our boards, and have a long history of HONESTY here, don't sell off-board, have never done this and won't do it in the future.

This is not to besmirch any non-poster-sellers (The White House comes to mind---and I don't mean Washington, but to make a general statement.)

I think this "middle-man" thing is good because it puts up a bit of a screen to catch, at least some of, the freeloaders.

Unfortunately, there are some, not so many now, that try to circumvent our rules here on the BB---a very small percentage, but lost revenue for this site.

99.99% of those who request email addresses here don't have this in mind.

The VAST majority here know that the Auctions, Joining the D4C, Donations and Legacy Purchases run this site and without all of you HONEST dudes we would not be here.

We see the email exchange here on a very infrequent basis. When it occurs..

..we're cognizant enough to see if it is auction related or not.

Another way that will address concerns about the car's details, is to list them in the description.

For example, instead of listing all the car's features, that most of us know about, how about listing whether the model has been displayed and/or is smoke free, etc....those issues I want to know. Also, which most of us do, list any flaws, defects, eg. paint, etc..

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