Buy/Sell/Trade (Classifieds) Guidelines

Bud · Oct 2, 2015

Please read the User Agreement and other GIRS policies and guidelines, now located permanently on the Help Page.

Bud · Jul 15, 2016

Bumping this for everyone, just the occasional friendly reminder that these guidelines exist for the benefit of everyone that uses this site for trading

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GIRS User Agreement | Greater Iowa Reef Society

CLASSIFIEDS

Our Classifieds section is offered as a benefit for GIRS Members as a means for selling, buying, trading, or giving away personal livestock, equipment, and dry goods.

We rely on the honor system to help encourage fair trading. It is not our role to enforce transactions. In cases where it is brought to our attention that blatant fraud is taking or has taken place, we may, at our our sole discretion, take appropriate disciplinary action.

Classifieds encompass any exchange: For Sale, Willing to Buy / Looking For, Trade, Free, Re-home, etc.

All classified listings must be posted in the Classifieds section.

Only GIRS Members may list an item in the Classifieds section, but everyone can participate.

Place only one listing per item or group of items. Do not post or repost the same item or group of items in more than one section of the Classifieds. Instead, modify the listing.

We expect listings placed to be related to the topic of this forum (aquarium hobby). Non-hobby related items may be sold under the "Not Hobby Related" category, but these should be kept to a minimum, and should be within reason.

Do not place a listing directing others to or containing links to your listing on another site (including but not limited to, auction sites, Craiglist, and social media).

Listings may be removed by our staff at any time for any reason. Do not attempt to re-post a removed listing; contact the Staff with any concerns.

All Willing to Buy/Looking For listings must include an intent to purchase or trade.

Do not place listings requesting free items or donations.

Sponsors may post personal items in the classifieds section, but it should be clearly stated that they are personal items.

For clarity, users may link to someone else's off-site listing, and they may do so in the general forum area (i.e. outside of the Classifieds section) as long as they don't have any vested interest in the sale of the item (i.e. no shilling) and the listing is not made by a GIRS user. We understand that it's not always possible to know who is and who is not a GIRS user, but repeated abuse of this guideline can result in disciplinary action.

For additional listing recommendations, please refer to the GIRS Classifieds Guidelines
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Just for reference, this item in particular...

Only GIRS Members may list an item in the Classifieds section, but everyone can participate.
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...is in there, but it's not really being enforced, so everyone can post right now. This section of the UA was written with the anticipation that a Classifieds add-on was nearly ready to go, and that got totally stalled out...and it may not ever be restricted so post away

Furthermore, there is a separate (yet inclusive) Classifieds Guidelines

GIRS Classifieds Guidelines | Greater Iowa Reef Society

Which covers recommendations for how to list an item, how to ask/handle questions/etc, how to conduct the sale, etc.

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