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Delphinus
10-15-2010, 11:46 PM
Guidelines For Posting Items in the Canreef, Buy/Sell Forums
Effective October 2010

Location
A location is required in either the title, post, or poster's profile.

Items
Please keep items for sale or trade related to aquaria and items directly related to keeping aquaria. Note - we currently do accept cameras within this definition. There are currently two forums available, one for livestock and one for drygoods. [OMIT (not really necessary) - Sellers wishing to sell complete systems (i.e., tank and livestock) may use either forum.]

Subject Titles
Try to include a brief description of the item(s) being sold (or sought) in the title of your thread. [OMIT (replaced by next sentence) - And if you're really enthusiastic, feel free to add your location too (if not already in your profile).] Please consider placing location in your title. Having this information in the subject line will help buyers (or sellers) direct their attention to your posts.

Pricing
Please post a price in your for sale items. Please do not edit the price out after item has sold - threads are kept online for the sake of archival price searches. Removing the price defeats the purpose of this.

Please sell items that are your own to sell.
With the occasional "sale for a friend" who may not be online, please restrict your sales to items that are your own to sell. This includes avoiding linking to offsite sales on other boards, buy/sell forums, ebay, etc. It's just good nettiquette.

Please keep cross chatter and discussion to a minimum.
If you don't like a price, but are interested in buying an item, please PM your offer to the seller. Actually, in general, please use PM's to price negotiate, it's just good nettiquette. Also please be mindful of going off on tangents or topics irrelevant to the sale, these can tend to dilute the purpose of the thread, which in this case is a sale of an item.

No unsponsored commercial posts are permitted.
Canreef is intended for the free sharing of information and education for the reef aquarium hobby. The buy/sell forums are provided as a free service to facilitate the trading and sales/purchases of aquarium equipment within the Canreef community. Canreef is supported financially by our sponsors - vendor sponsorships are important to keeping Canreef online and available to us. Thus, commercial sales without a prior sponsorship agreement in place is strictly forbidden. Please understand that 'commercial sales' are deemed anything that is sold in quantity or in frequency, or where ordering is done on a vendor style website (ie. catalog, inventories and shopping carts). Anything that is construed as commercial in nature, without prior consent of Canreef staff, will be removed. There is a zero tolerance policy in this regard.

Coral Frags/Propagation
The Canreef community wholeheartedly endorses efforts towards coral conservation. As such the practice of trading frags from hobbyist to hobbyist is formally encouraged. To support this goal, frag sale threads are exempt from limitations so long as there is no commercial aspect to the sales (ie., sales for revenue, or traffic directed to a vendor-style website).

Thank you!
We thank you for your attention to these details. Please note that posts not meeting the above criteria may be subject to removal at Canreef staff's discretion.

Delphinus
10-15-2010, 11:48 PM
Also Note...

Please be careful when asked for a bank account number for funds deposit when selling. Do not give your bank account number out to ANYONE!! This leaves you and your money at risk for both money theft and identity theft.

There are many other ways to make and receive a payment, including email money transfer, paypal, money order etc.

Delphinus
10-15-2010, 11:48 PM
A lot of threads have been resurrected from the dead lately. Please read the date on the posts, some are well over a year old. In this case it is likely that the item has sold long ago and the thread hasn't been updated.

Thanks