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[Bibs]

I've just set up a 'For Sale' and 'Wanted' section on the forum where you can list your Esprit parts sitting on the shelf currently gathering dust or if there is something you need, we can match you up with the part.

As much as I'd love to offer this as a free service, I think it would be a good way to bring some revenue into LEF from you guys to pay the bills so a small fee will be charged. When enough is made I'll be purchasing some software which allows you to sell items a la ebay with auctions/fixed price sales/feedback and so on but this is expensive so will have to wait for now.

Minimum fee: £1
Maximum fee: £10

The fee will be 3% of the value of the item you sell and is a listing fee, not a sales fee. If your item is 'open to offers' then please base your fee on what you think is a fair price for the item. The fee is per item, not per advert and ads will stay online for 90 days.

Wanted adverts are free but in fairness if you do sell a part in response to a wanted advert then a voluntary payment would be appreciated.

In the new sections, post your for sale advert and send your payment via paypal to forum@lotusespritforum.com As soon as the payment is received your advert will become live (it will be there but unapproved until payment is received!) and stay for 90 days or you wish it removed or the item is sold in the meantime. Please let me know if you wish your advert to be a 'closed' topic ie not a discussion topic. If you place an ad and don't pay the fee your 'invisible' post will be removed after 5 days.

ETA - There are more and more people using LEF to sell their cars for free. Please note that as of now, there is a £10 flat fee to advertise your car for sale. Any posts from now offering a car for sale either placed in the wrong section or unpaid for will be removed without notice.

LEF does not under any circumstances give any warranty or other insurance as to the functionality, operation or quality of the items advertised for sale. Nor does it give any warranty or assurance for the accuracy, legality or completeness of the advertisments appearing on this site. Access to the site may be interrupted, delayed or restricted due to outside circumstances for which LEF disclaims all responsibility.

Advertisers are wholly responsible for ensuring that any material submitted for inclusion on LEF is within all the current laws and regulations. LEF takes takes no responsibility for inaccuracies, errors, omissions or discrimination in advertising material.

[USAndretti42]

Nice move, Bibs. Often we have posts from people looking for parts and from others with bits they don't want so this should work well and where else could you get your advert in front of a target market for so low a price?

Should be popular.

Now to see what's avaialble. :happy:

[andydclements]

Good move.
Anything to stop TheifBay.

[Bibs]

Ebay is 7.5% and uncapped I think so it's cheaper on here and ebay don't really help the Esprit community much last time I checked.

I hope the sections are utilised and we'll see a lot of parts back in circulation, it's win/win for everyone having it on here I think

[mayesprit]

Ebay is 7.5% and uncapped I think so it's cheaper on here and ebay don't really help the Esprit community much last time I checked.

I hope the sections are utilised and we'll see a lot of parts back in circulation, it's win/win for everyone having it on here I think

Its the paypall charges that annoy me - sold two items and had to pay them 12 quid this week for two transactions to collect money and for doing what?

Edited by mayesprit, 28 April 2008 - 09:52 PM.

[andydclements]

I guess if I were a seller I'd get a bit miffed about the charges, but I have used their protection as a buyer and so can see why the fees have to be there. Even if they manage to successfully claw back the money from the seller, they have to pay somebody to check into the case. It may not be a great amount of time, but that soon adds up to the equivalent of the profit margin on a lot of fees paid.
Then there's the card payment fees, which I think are in the region of 2.5% (depending on the agreement they have with the car clearance bank).

Don't get me wrong, I don't like PayPal, I've only recently finished a dispute with them over a relatively small amount £20. But they annoyed me so much I was ready to go to the ombudsman. I even set them deadlines which I knew were tight (based on their own internal deadlines for getting stuff done)- they met them when it really counted.


Bibs, have you considered Nochex? or one of the other electronic money transfer systems?

[Bibs]

There are more and more people using LEF to sell their cars for free. Please note that as of now, there is a £10 flat fee to advertise your car for sale. Any posts from now offering a car for sale either placed in the wrong section or unpaid for will be removed without notice.

[Bibs]

Selling parts up to the value of £500 is now free to forum supporters and Club Esprit members.

[Bibs]

All private seller adverts are now FREE until further notice.

[LooseCannon]

Thankyou, was just thinking of putting my wheels on there!

[Bibs]

I'm just trying out a new system too, let's see how we get on with it

[rocket63]

Rog has got some dodgy lights to sell !!!!!!!!!!

[Bibs]

I'm just doing some work on this, it will be back shortly

Sorry to be a pain but for those who placed ads, can you please do it again here...

http://www.thelotusf...h...r&Itemid=88

I've got the text I can PM to you if you need it so you can paste it back in, let me know...

[armynick]

Am i just being impatient but I can't see any adverts

[Bibs]

There aren't any yet.

[Bibs]

I've added the ones back in, there are 4 Esprits for sale now.

New domain - http://www.lotusforsale.com

[oneshot]

American date format??

[Bibs]

And what's wrong with that, xenophobe!

DATE_FORMAT_LC=%A, %d %B %Y
DATE_FORMAT_LC1=%A, %d %B %Y
DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%A, %d %B %Y %H:%M
DATE_FORMAT_LC3=%d %B %Y
DATE_FORMAT_LC4=%d.%m.%y
DATE_FORMAT_JS1=y-m-d
%Y-%M-%D=%Y-%M-%D
%A, %B %E=%A, %B %e

Looks right to me though...

[oneshot]

One the front page in the latest ads bit there are currently 3 cars for sale.

2 211s and a 1990 se turbo.

The 211s appear at first glance to have been for sale since 7 February 2009 ( 07-02-2009 ) and the se turbo since 7 January 2009 ( 07-01-09 )

This led me to the conclusion that the date format was American.

Now I don't have anything against our fellow people across the pond - but we have always used dd-mm-yy.

If you want to be international then yy-mm-dd would be better!!

[Bibs]

Happy?