Originally Posted by
Ralph Barker
After some discussion of the issues, the moderators have concluded:
eBay (and other site) links, alerts and pointers mostly seem to fall into two categories:
1. well-intentioned pointers or links to things that might be of interest to other LFPF members, and
2. posts that amount to secondary ads for the poster's own auction on the other site, or those of a friend.
"Examples" might be a third, less-frequent, type of post. In such cases, the use of the full product name should suffice, rather than posting a link to where one is for sale.
Posts of the #1 type are prohibited because the LFPF shouldn't be used to drum up business for eBay, and those who are actually interested can do their own searches there, while those who aren't interested are tired of seeing those posts. Posts of the #2 type amount to spam and will usually be hard-deleted, so they don't show in the forum index, and the poster warned.
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