they have a perma-ban on selling new (unused) items.
Is it written in stone or are there exceptions? For example someone who imported an item that's not locally available but technically new? Is moderation based on users reporting the unacceptable ad or is there an approval process before the ad is posted?
All ads get a comment thread. (No closed bidding where the seller can make up whatever story they want to without any information showing up to keep the facts straight.)
Keep in mind that if sweclockers decide to protect buyers from being misled and/or scammed, the same should be done for the sellers-
I sold a lot of stuff on here when i was a lot younger than now and didn't understand trade or computers as well as I do now. The way people haggle and try to convince you that what you have is worth less than you think- i couldn't have deal with that when i was younger I think. With an open thread, you may see someone trying to scam the seller, but it would be easy for scammers to team up with one or more convincing the seller that their item is faulty/overpriced and another bidding low based on whatever their friends are posting.
I've seen what looked very much like users doing this exact thing, and reported it at the time.
The sale ads usually stay for very a long time, for transparency. Only the admins can delete a thread or bidders comments. Rouge sellers (buyers too) can't hide their tracks so easily. People constantly trading on the market to make money from it can't camouflage it easily. Buyers don't lose the record so easily of what the seller promised.
Pretty sure this wouldn't vibe with GDPR, and I certainly wouldn't be selling here anymore. I already tend to delete my ads- especially the ones where i decided not to sell in the end, simply because I don't want a publicly available record of what hardware I'm using or have previously used that can be found by just searching on a user name that I've had on other platforms.
If the ad stayed visible for only the final buyer and seller (and admins) that would be fine though.
There is a condition of advertising, that no item can be for sale on another site at the same time. For example, ads with simultaneous listings on ebay will get closed by mods. I guess it basically increases reliability for buyers and reduces the number of aborted/failed transactions.
This makes sense, kind of, I have myself once or twice put an item up on another site when it was up here for a long time without bids, and then sold wherever i got a decent bid first. But yeah, sometimes see people bidding on something only for seller to say they sold it on Blocket or something else.
It is like providing safe roads for cars.
The "road" here is already safe, that doesn't mean people will not drive like idiots and with and cause accidents.
It is time to protect Sweclockers members better.
Buyers and sellers are both members it's a peer to peer marketplace- your suggestion sound like you want to turn the sellers into something else than peers and privilege the buyers..
I don't mind adding a little bit of structure to help protect such people and other reasonable members from those who are not very ethical.
I do- because there are other major trading platforms that have a lot more structure- and if i want to get fifty messages asking me what the "last price is" or bidding ridiculously low and slow because they know that I've pretty much already promised that I have to sell the item or get punished for it- the I would sell my components on tradera or blocket.
All these suggestions seem like they would require a lot of moderation or very strict automatic moderation. I guess then it comes down to whether sweclockers want to be a major trading platform or just have a trading module for their members. For my part sweclockers was always the place where i could put something up and (usually) trust that I would get bids from people who know the value of the item, understand what it is, and are respectful and courteous. Simply trading as part of a forum. There are other sites if you want a strict auction format.
I don't mean to argue for argument's sake- but I've traded a lot of things here, ever since i was a teen, and despite the lack of "structure" this is the place where I go to sell or buy something when I don't want to deal with the bullshit of other platforms, and honestly the only place I bother to buy or sell used pc components.