For a couple of years, you had to be a member for 1 month and have at least 5 posts before you could post new threads in IceTrade.
Those restrictions were put in place to stop potential scammers.
About 2 years ago (or so), the restrictions were taken away because it was more of a hassle to genuine sellers. Especially for community members who genuinely don't post much if anything.
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Originally Posted by astroron
I haven't heard of anyone not getting their purchase 
Has anyone been scammed  |
Agree with Ron. There's been literally a
handful of questionable for sale threads - I could count them on 1 hand. And in every case, they were identified before anyone lost their money (to my knowledge).
Less than 5, out of literally thousands of items put up for sale every year. With those stats, there's simply no justification to put the restrictions back in place.
The community here is very smart, very savvy and very wary of stuff that looks "too good to be true". That's the best way to be.
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Originally Posted by leon
Some of these people sell their stuff and you never hear from them again, just go through the members list and see all the zero posts.
Leon
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I'm not sure what that has to do with the topic?
If they had to wait for a month and have 5 posts just to sell their gear, if they wanted to never come back again, they'd still never come back again regardless.
And if they have zero posts, then they haven't sold anything.
The majority of any community don't post much if anything. It's always a smaller minority that are the most active. It's the same on every community I've even been a part of.
I'm not a fan of re-introducing any restrictions, for the reasons I stated above. However I'm happy to hear feedback from more members (on both sides) to see what everyone thinks.