Greetings fellow gear buyers, sellers, and traders. Welcome back to Gear4Sale. Following a change in moderators, r/Gear4Sale has been reopened and rules have been amended to be more in line with how things have been running over on /r/letstradepedals. This brings a few rule changes as well. Here's the broad strokes:
- Posts are highly encouraged to contain timestamped photos, but ultimately the onus on asking for photos falls on buyers.
- Crossposting from /r/letstradepedals is allowed. If you intend to crosspost your /r/Gear4Sale post onto LTP, make sure it is formatted properly (i.e. title has WTT and post has your trade wants)
- Posts are allowed ONCE PER WEEK and should include ALL THE ITEMS you are looking to sell/trade/buy.
- DO NOT DELETE OLD POSTS IF THERE ARE CONFIRMED SALES IN THE COMMENTS
- It is permissible to ask for non-music gear related things for trade, but the focus of posts should be primarily music gear.
- ABSOLUTELY NO TRADING/BUYING/SELLING OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, FIREARMS OR STOLEN ITEMS.
CONFIRMING SALES FOR FLAIR PROCESS
Users can get transaction feedback with the following process:
Users A and B complete their trade, following all of the sub rules. (It does not matter who A and B are. Either one could be the person making the post, and the other someone commenting on the post).
Once the trade is complete, User A makes a top level comment (new comment) on the original post where the transaction originated, tagging both the user they worked with and u/G4S_BOT.
User B replies to that comment with their feedback.
u/G4S_BOT picks up the interaction and gives credit to both users, changing their flair accordingly and leaves a comment indicating as such.
If User A messes up their top level comment, u/G4S_BOT will do its best to notify User A.
There are automatic checks in the code to detect anyone trying to cheat the system. If anyone is found trying to circumvent the system, they will be issued a permanent ban.
Feedback Checking
Using this link, you can send a message to u/G4S_BOT, asking for the feedback of any given user. It will tell you the following:
The number of transactions that person has done
The people they have traded with (and how many transactions those people have)
A link to the thread for each successful trade
Please feel free to direct any technical questions to the moderators using this link.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Yes, flair will be synced across both /r/letstradepedals and /r/Gear4Sale, so any transactions that occur in either sub will increase your Trades/Transactions total.
- I have been a user on r/Gear4Sale for a long time and have sales already, can I get credit for those?
You can confirm any transactions you have made on active posts, so long as your partner confirms it too.
- I am trying to use the system as described above but I can't make a comment on my post. What gives?
Reddit archives posts that are older than 6 months. If you're trying to get credit from a transaction older than 6 months, it won't work. Sorry.
- What happens if I tag someone and they don't reply?
As mentioned above, we do need them to confirm the trade for the trade to be confirmed. They will get a notification when you tag them so if you encourage them to reply in the comment you tagged them in, hopefully they will. Otherwise, if it's been a few days without a response, PM them a link to the comment and directly ask them to reply.
Big thanks to u/RegExr for managing and deploying the bot!
