Guides / 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 by Rodrigo, and the form then lives in your own workspace at /manage/. Without that grant the address answers with a 404 and there is no add button anywhere on the board. If you have not got a section yet, what /manage/ is explains the arrangement, and asking him is how you get one.
Filling the form in
Title, description, asking price, condition, how you will hand it over, and your area. Two of those repay a little care.
- The description. Say what is wrong with it as well as what is right. The item has to match how you described it, and almost every dispute starts with something the advert left out.
- The area. Give your town or district, never your street or house number. The exact address belongs in a private message once you and a buyer are actually talking.
The tickbox, and why it remembers a version
Before a new advert can be sent you tick a box saying the item is yours to sell and that you have read what may not be listed.
What is recorded is not only that you ticked it. It is which version of the rules you were agreeing to, on the day you agreed. That cuts both ways and both are the point: you can never be held to wording that appeared after you sold something, and when the rules do change in substance you are asked again rather than assumed to have kept up. Editing an old advert whose confirmation predates a change will show you the box a second time with a line explaining why.
How long it stays up
Adverts run for six weeks. About a week before the end you are asked once whether it is still going, and a single click keeps it on. Mark it sold whenever it goes and it comes off the board straight away — it stays in your own list if you need to look at it again.