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Other Stuff => Bazaar of Obscurities => Topic started by: Prof.Witchheimer on October 01, 2012, 11:34:47 AM
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If you have any questions about Bazaar rules, don't hesitate to ask. This is the only thread for it, please don't start any topics with questions/suggestions on the child boards.
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I think this is a very good change.
I would suggest FS: FT: and FS/FT: as starter text for the titles though. Having (SALE)(TRADE) at the beginning of every thread line is visually too dominant and will be confusing as more entries are made.
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I agree that this is a good set of changes (and an opportunity to slip that missing "a" into the name!). Thanks, Prof - it's a sensible way of address the disquiet surrounding the board.
Just one thing, though. Before clicking "Show unread posts since last visit", I used to go to the Bazaar first, and click "Mark Read", so that the "unread" listing wasn't swamped with Bazaar posts. So far as I can tell, there is no "Mark Read" link for the Bazaar as a whole, now, but separate ones for each child board. Is there any way around having to go into each child board and mark it as read every time?
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Looks good to me :D
cheers
James
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I would suggest FS: FT: and FS/FT: as starter text for the titles though. Having (SALE)(TRADE) at the beginning of every thread line is visually too dominant and will be confusing as more entries are made.
It's more about making it quite noticable in the "Show unread posts since last visit" list. So we will let it run that way first. Later we still can change/optimize something.
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Just one thing, though. Before clicking "Show unread posts since last visit", I used to go to the Bazaar first, and click "Mark Read", so that the "unread" listing wasn't swamped with Bazaar posts. So far as I can tell, there is no "Mark Read" link for the Bazaar as a whole, now, but separate ones for each child board. Is there any way around having to go into each child board and mark it as read every time?
I don't think so. But I will check it.
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Maybe not the place for this, but I do welcome this change fully, and the new rules are great!
Thanks prof for making this an even better place to spend my so-called working hours on :)
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I can only echo the above posts and welcome the changes, especially concerning the ebay listings.
A job well done, I think.
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Nice changes, makes lots of sense :)
Which 'board', do you think, would be the best for offers/voucher etc (like the Maelstrom or Foundry ones)?
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Actually no one of these new boards is appropriate for this sort of posts. They are only for private trades. Still have to think about a Commercial Child Board. For the time being try to post it to the suitable theme boards or Open Talk.
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I do hope "New Releases" type posts don't get moved to a Bazaar child board. If North Star (or whoever) want to post about their new tribesmen figures, I'd like it to be on the Colonial Adventures Board. I don't think the colonial fans would be well-served by having to hunt down such stuff on another board.
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I do hope "New Releases" type posts don't get moved to a Bazaar child board. If North Star (or whoever) want to post about their new tribesmen figures, I'd like it to be on the Colonial Adventures Board. I don't think the colonial fans would be well-served by having to hunt down such stuff on another board.
No worries, Dylan. If at all, it would be only for the news like "Whatever-Games gives discount of 50% on everything this week". But not sure if we really need it. We will see.
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For the time being try to post it to the suitable theme boards or Open Talk.
Ta, Open talk makes sense
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It's more about making it quite noticable in the "Show unread posts since last visit" list. So we will let it run that way first. Later we still can change/optimize something.
Actually seeing it now I withdraw my suggestion. As most thread titles are running into 2 or more lines it is not as distracting as I expected. Changing it is not necessary.
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I like the changes.
Would it make sense to have a separate board for people posting greens for sale?
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I like the changes.
Would it make sense to have a separate board for people posting greens for sale?
Probably just having (SALE - GREENS) would suffice, or something similar.
cheers
James
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Probably just having (SALE - GREENS) would suffice, or something similar.
cheers
James
I guess what I had in mind would also be a place for sculptors to post up commission adverts and things. I know FU!UK does something similar, so it might eb doubling up.
But yes, that would also be a good idea :)
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Not sure if we shall make a new board as we not really have that many sculptors as Frothers. Just post it to Sale/Trade board.
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Hi,
I'm a bit stuck (again! ??? :)).
How do I post on the Ebay board? I've read through the rules and I am still none the wiser.
Cheers,
Darrell.
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You need to be a supporting member.
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Say Prof and/or Chris, do you think it might be a good idea to have a "Thanks for the good trade (or sale)" thread? It could be a third fixed thread besides the rules and FAQ.
I'd say we could also post them in the thread where the trade/sale was initiated, since we're only supposed to have one thread each, but if those are going to be pruned, then a responsible trader who doesn't trade very often might still lose the record of what thanks they'd received. Also, if we posted a "wanted" thread and someone replies, it's kind of silly to post the thanks in our own wanted thread instead of something linked to the sender.
The board's a fairly small community overall and most of the members know each other moderately well, but you know never know. Having some form of recorded trade feedback might come in handy now and again.
Let me know what you think!
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Hi,
I'm a bit stuck (again! ??? :)).
How do I post on the Ebay board? I've read through the rules and I am still none the wiser.
Cheers,
Darrell.
You have to become a Supporting Member to be able to post on Ebay Board. Posting of Ebay auctions on LAF for regular members isn't allowed.
Say Prof and/or Chris, do you think it might be a good idea to have a "Thanks for the good trade (or sale)" thread? It could be a third fixed thread besides the rules and FAQ.
I'd say we could also post them in the thread where the trade/sale was initiated, since we're only supposed to have one thread each, but if those are going to be pruned, then a responsible trader who doesn't trade very often might still lose the record of what thanks they'd received. Also, if we posted a "wanted" thread and someone replies, it's kind of silly to post the thanks in our own wanted thread instead of something linked to the sender.
The board's a fairly small community overall and most of the members know each other moderately well, but you know never know. Having some form of recorded trade feedback might come in handy now and again.
Let me know what you think!
This thread would very quickly turn into a very long one and an occassional trader "who doesn't trade very often" wouldn't be really able to read all that or make a view from it.
Apart from that this thread would become very emotional from time to time, as soon as someone would post some negative feedback and the other site would come to strike back. This will be just uncontrollable. That all would make that place a bit to uncomfortable for us all. And after managing several of such situations on PM way I can tell you that the most of these emotions aren't really objective and factual.
We're not a professional trade platform with feedback systems and endless features and I don't want this place to be something like that. It did work the usual way since about six years so I would like to hope that it still does. Perhaps one day we will see that this forum is becoming too large and we've got bad traders too regularly. In this case I maybe will set up more strictly restrictions for the participants or do something else as I am definitely not able to garantuee any purchase safety and I'm also not able to manage all these cases.
But I'm here an I try to help as much as I can.
For the moment..we won't change anything. No Feedback board or thread. Because it's a really a can of worms and I'm not keen about opening it. Feel free to post your Feedback to the threads, btw the most of them will be moved to Archiv and not really deleted.
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I figured there'd be some points on the other side of things, so that's more than fair. In my case it was almost more of a courtesy thing, but I can see how that'd just be needless clutter as it's own thread.
Hopefully there won't be an actual need for a feedback record anytime soon.
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Not really sure if this right place for this but is the Bazaar only for the sale of mini's and RPG related things or would it be ok for me to list some music CD's I need to shift?
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Not really sure if this right place for this but is the Bazaar only for the sale of mini's and RPG related things or would it be ok for me to list some music CD's I need to shift?
I like the concept except for two things:
1) Slippery slope - where do you draw the line?
2) This is a miniatures oriented site, I think it should stay that way.
Gracias,
Glenn
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Hello.
I have a few related questions.
Why am I not allowed to edit or remove my threads, when they have been moved to the archive?
In my example I have a wanted thread which I did not update for a month and it was moved to archive. After that has happened I have got hold of the miniatures I was searching for and as such wanted to go and remove the thread but I could not do so.
I know the thread is now in archive and as such should be considered invalid. But it might turn up in other peoples search and they might contact me about it in the future. I know this is currently hypothetic, but I have previously found thread in the archive by search and sometimes contacted sellers about stuff down there.
I think the archive is fine, but I still think thread creators should be able to delete threads if they are no longer valid.
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Generally we consider all the archive threads to be closed and not valid. That's what the people searching there should be knowing.
I prefer the Bazaar threads not to be deleted. If something goes wrong and there are troubles on the one side of the deal, I still will be able to check the thread and maybe to get some kind of history, if available there.
So if it's important to you, just do care and purge or change your thread within the 30 days after the last reply had been posted to it. If you didn’t manage it and you think it’s very important to delete that thread in the archive so let me know and I will do it for you.
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Yes, I see the point. If you want you can delete my (Wanted) Space SLann thread as I have them all now.
For the future I will delete before time runs out if needed. Thanks for the fast reply.
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I'd like to suggest some updating of doc/FAQ for the various fora is called for. I've seen some things moved to COMMERCIAL which I thought were supposed to be in themed. I've even seen a Kickstarter moved, and the Bazaar FAQ still points to:
"Kickstarter & Co
please post all funding platform related threads to appropriate board (theme based). "
Some fora have FAQ's, some don't.
Just saying.
Doug
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I'd like to suggest some updating of doc/FAQ for the various fora is called for. I've seen some things moved to COMMERCIAL which I thought were supposed to be in themed.
I agree, but that's not an FAQ issue it's the mods not having read it...
I know the reason Nick at North Star stopped posting here was because he got sick of his posts being moved to Commercial even though he was following the FAQ as far as he could see (and not mass cross posting like a couple of recent ones, which is annoying).
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I agree, but that's not an FAQ issue it's the mods not having read it...
I know the reason Nick at North Star stopped posting here was because he got sick of his posts being moved to Commercial even though he was following the FAQ as far as he could see (and not mass cross posting like a couple of recent ones, which is annoying).
We will try to make the kickstarter policy a bit more clear soon.
Generally if someone is unhappy with the decision of a mod he always can talk to that mod or to me. There is always a solution satisfactory to both sides. That's surely a better option than sulk and run away.
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That's surely a better option than sulk and run away.
No argument from me, just brought it up as it was relevant.
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Sorry, Alex!
I thought policy was changed; dopey moi! :?
I knew previously that company announcements were supposed to go to 'themed' fora, but couldn't find such instructions other than for Kickstarter.
Given the mostly free nature of the forum, I'm terribly impressed how well, if I can call it so, 'professionally', things go here that any comments are done with the hope of a small contribution, 'pay back', for the pleasure I've received here.
Doug
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Doug,
the policy is still the same, though there is need for clarification of some details. We will announce it not later than tomorrow.
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Has requiring that the country be listed in the title of bazzar posts been considered?
I realize that LAF is a fairly euro-centric group, but there's alot of us from elsewehere like Asia, Australia, North America, etc. and it would be very helpful to see location at a glance rather than having to click every single topic to find out if it's in a region that is even workable for you.
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Has requiring that the country be listed in the title of bazzar posts been considered?
Not yet but it's not a bad idea.
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Are more standard Euro board games (as opposed to the miniatures/board games hybrid) appropriate to post for sale here?
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Hello
please may ask to be explained ..in a few words..how "sprue exchange" works?..i could be interested , if possible, to be admited..
thanks
Pier
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Hello
please may ask to be explained ..in a few words..how "sprue exchange" works?..i could be interested , if possible, to be admited..
thanks
Pier
It works in the following way:
You ask to have your name added to the list.
When you are next on the list, the previous person on the list sends you the existing box which contains the accumulated sprues/miniatures/etc.
You take out the items from the box that interest you and add some of your own.
You then send the box on to the next person on the list.
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Thanks for the answer Mason...but please to whom i have to ask and in which topic/list?
and, above all, which kind of minis may i add and could i find in the parcel?...metal or plastic and which scale?..i only do historicals above all in 28mm and a few in 20mm..would they be ok to exchange..or the menbers using this nice systhem are more fantasy oriented?
many thanks
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This is the UK and Europe thread:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=89892.0
If you are in that area, just post in the thread and register your interest.
As for what is in the box....it has been some time since I last saw it but it did have a fair variety of stuff in it, both historical and fantasy.
No idea what is in it now, but that is the nice thing about it: You never know what you will find.
If that is too random and you just want to swap specific sprues, all you need to do is post your own advert in the Bazaar stating what you are looking for and what you have in exchange.
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, fairly new here.
I have quit using ebay for selling, and have found a website dedicated to listing wargames figures for sale, called Minisbarter. com
https://minisbarter.com/
If I want to notify of items I have for sale there within the Bazaar of Obscurities, should I treat it like the rules for Ebay listings, but put "Minisbarter" in brackets in the subject listing, with the usual 1 active threat at any one time, and no bumping for 3 days etc?
Mark
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Good question. Will let you know in a day or so :)
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, fairly new here.
I have quit using ebay for selling, and have found a website dedicated to listing wargames figures for sale, called Minisbarter. com
https://minisbarter.com/
If I want to notify of items I have for sale there within the Bazaar of Obscurities, should I treat it like the rules for Ebay listings, but put "Minisbarter" in brackets in the subject listing, with the usual 1 active threat at any one time, and no bumping for 3 days etc?
Mark
That sounds reasonable. Just use the different tag in the title - the name of the board is mainly due to the fact that back in the olden dayes(TM) there was essentially only Ebay for online auctions, so the name kind of stuck. We'll see how to best proceed with that issue.
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Thanks guys!
Mark
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How about the epithet, "Auction"?
Would it be enough to distinguish between eBay sales?
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Minisbarter isn't an auction site, just a free listing site for sale and/or barter, or even free stuff, it doesn't have a bidding facility.
But I wouldn't be surprised if there are other sites that people might use.
Mark
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Minisbarter isn't an auction site, just a free listing site for sale and/or barter, or even free stuff, it doesn't have a bidding facility.
But I wouldn't be surprised if there are other sites that people might use.
Mark
How about Listing Site? might be a bit clunky to go in a tile for a sale though ???
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It’s all in hand chaps :)
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It’s all in hand chaps :)
Cool :)