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Guides

Short walk-throughs for the things people actually do here. If you are after a quick answer instead, the FAQ is the place.

Getting started & your account

• What G3M is, and what beta means right now G3M is a members’ club that lives on the internet rather than on a high street. Under one roof there is a shop, a finance hub, an arcade of games you can play in the browser, a set of everyday tools, a noticeboard where members sell their own things to each other, and auctions. One […]
• Creating your account and signing in An account is free and takes about a minute. You need an email address you can open and a password you have not used anywhere else. Registering Open the sign-up page. Enter your email address and choose a password. Submit the form. You are signed in from that moment. Signing in afterwards Use the My […]
• Locking your account down Two-factor authentication means that knowing your password is no longer enough to get into your account. Somebody also needs the phone in your pocket. It is optional here — nobody is forced into it — and it is the single most useful ten minutes you can spend on your own security. Turning it on Sign […]
• What the membership tiers unlock There are four levels: free, and then three paid tiers. Each one contains everything in the one below it, so the only question is how far up you want to go. Free No cost and no card. You get the shop, the public finance content, the arcade and ordinary support. Individual games can carry a […]

Being a manager

• What /manage/ is, and finding your section If Rodrigo has asked you to look after part of the site, /manage/ is where you do it. It is your workspace: the forms for adding things, and the list of the things you have added. A 404 is the normal answer, not a fault Signed out, /manage/ returns a 404 — your browser will […]
• Adding a listing The add form sits at the top of your workspace. If you look after more than one section you get one form per section, each with its own fields. The fields What is it? — the title, up to 120 characters. Required. Name the actual thing: make, model, size. “Amplifier” tells a reader nothing. Describe […]
• The approval queue — nothing goes live until somebody says so A manager can write freely and can publish nothing. Everything you create arrives in Rodrigo’s queue first. That is not distrust — it is the reason the job can be handed to a friend at all. What waits, and where Two kinds of thing land in the queue. A brand-new item waits as a draft […]
• Reporting something that should not be there If something on the noticeboard looks wrong, tell us. It takes about twenty seconds and it is never a nuisance. How Open the advert. Find Something wrong with this listing? near the bottom and open it. Choose a reason: it breaks the rules, it does not look like theirs to sell, the description or photos […]

Selling & buying

• Listing something on the noticeboard The noticeboard is where members sell their own things to each other. G3M is not the seller and takes no cut — the board carries your advert and you deal with the buyer yourself. Anybody can read the board. Putting something on it is a different matter: you need the noticeboard section handed to you […]
• Photographs that actually sell it You can add up to 4 photographs to a listing, as JPG, PNG or WebP. Four good ones sell an item; one dark one taken at arm’s length does not. Take your own, of the actual thing Not the manufacturer’s picture, and not one off the internet. A stock photo tells a buyer nothing about […]
• Putting a lot into an auction There are two ways into the auctions. Members at Outcast tier or above use the submission form. If you look after the auctions section as a manager, you use the form in your own workspace instead. What you are asked for Title and description — the same honesty as a noticeboard advert. Marks, faults, what […]
• What happens when something sells — and why G3M never takes the money When a noticeboard advert or an auction finds a buyer, G3M introduces the two of you and then stands back. You arrange the money and the handover between yourselves. No payment passes through us Nothing is taken, held, escrowed or released here. That is a deliberate position rather than a missing feature: the seller is […]