Updated.
I checked fleabay, doesn't seem like a very good site to me, thanks for the recommendation though.
Alex, I've contacted you. You don't really respond, so yeah lol
Alex tends to respond faster via Facebook.
For clarity's sake:
- There's no longer a minimum requirement to post in another person's topic, provided you are making a serious inquiry. However, the seller/buyer/trader may freely ignore the request if they don't wish to trade with the requester.
- The minimum requirements are for creating one's own topic with items to sell, buy or trade.
- It was pointed out by me earlier in this very thread that posting in someone's ISO thread to get the same items the thread's creator wanted is very rude - even if it's not intentional.
We have minimum requirements for a reason. It forces newbies to become a part of the community and to acquaint themselves with the rest of the members. The members in turn get to know more about the newbie and it puts them more at ease when considering making a deal with them. It works well enough to keep some rip-off artists off the site because the requirements are too much of a hassle for someone looking to make a quick hit-and-run score.
The requirement about reputation score is actually very important. You don't have to be the most popular person here, you just need to have one point more than you started with when you joined. But committing such faux-pas sends up a red flag, triggering members to downgrade the score into the negative numbers. If someone's being unfairly hit, I'll fix a rep score, but if it's perfectly justified, I'll let it stand - the rep points have to be earned by interacting more with the people here and showing them you're not some sleazeball who's main interest is ripping people off.
I'm not accusing iDoctor of anything here, other than poor manners. To you, sir, I recommend that you participate in the forum more, get to know people, make a topic on the Introduce Yourself board - in general, you should try to interact more socially, get to know the people here and let them get to know you. You'll hit 25 posts faster than you think, your reputation score is likely to rise and all that remains is the 7-day waiting period, which for you will expire on Friday.
And please, before making any more posts, read the Rules topic - at the minimum, read the first post in the topic, which is a summary of all the rules for participating in our little marketplace.
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