I love the for sale posts. It's like window shopping, or actual shopping. That said, I usually post my own for sale items on the iBOB list, unless it's Riv-specific, like Readers, Baggins bags, or Quickbeams (ha!).
Philip Santa Rosa, CA On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 10:46:39 AM UTC-7, Cyclofiend Jim wrote: > > I've had a couple of people mention issues in transactions of late. Folks > flaking on payment. Deciding for unclear reasons not to respond, pay or > explain. > > I do think we're better than that. > > But, to my mind there's a slightly larger issue - one I won't solve this > week, of course. To start off, I wanted to tee up the topic and see what > others think. > > "How much of the buy/sell/trade/wanted stuff do we want in this group?" > > I realize it's seasonal - less riding in the winter, spring cleaning, > bike/bit upgrading, that sort of thing. But over the last year or so, it's > outweighed the other topics. (Honestly, in the last couple months, that > seems to be correcting itself, which I think is a good thing. Signal to > Noise ratios are always best corrected by increasing Signal.) > > And I'd rather enjoy ride reports, technical help, musings on models, > experience and gear evaluations than wade through a bunch of buyers and > sellers. But, I do understand it's helpful. > > One thing I see as Admin which most don't: Folks whose first post is a > FS/WTB and who never return again. > I'm not sure how to fix this other than be more strict on what gets > through and not pass along any moderated FS/WTB posts. That is, since folks > basically get unmoderated by creating posts of Quality, or by reaching out > to me, those people who are moderated and only posting Buy/Sell items are - > by one test - taking advantage of those who donate time and expertise to > this group. > > Maybe that's a good first step. > > Thoughts? > > (Working on a couple projects this week, so may not be able to quickly > react/respond). > > - Jim / Admin > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
