bergx7

Bump, open to offers. Track season is coming

BWRY

Please PM me about wheels and shipping to Norcal. Also, what's the offset of F/R wheels? Thnx.

RAudi Driver

How about we make the classifieds for only "Paying Rennlist Members" with at least 1 year on the books. We can scrape these pieces of feces of the shoes of Rennlist Classifieds.

asellus

Ignoring the myriad of problems with this idea, it would only work for about a year. Then all the accounts they have been opening and posting with for that whole year will start to trickle in, probably at the 1 year mark for each given account, doing the same old scams.

How would the messaging go when someone tries to sell something on a new account? "hey, I deleted your post, you need to pay Rennlist money and also wait for a year before you can try to sell things. but then you can try to sell things! oh, but it'll only be to other people who waited a year and paid us, too." ? I certainly wouldn't want to be on either end of that conversation.

Understand that the accounts and posts are being created by real people. They may look obvious to you and me, but there is no programmatic way to definitively flag them. Not until someone figures out how to train an AI model to spot them with meaningful accuracy. This is not a problem that can be solved through policies; it's a culture problem.

We've got stickies with guidelines on how to not get scammed. People ignore them.
We have automated warnings in contrasting colors on top of messages from new accounts. People ignore them.
We tag posts within a topic that are authored by the original poster with a special black emblem that says "THREAD STARTER". People don't seem to be aware of this.
We even have members here that quote scam posts with "this is a scam!!!!!" on every post they see. The efficacy of this is questionable at best.
We actively hand-prune scammers as they sign up and post. This is an untenable solution.

I'd love to have a policy I can implement that would stop this from happening. I truly would. If you come up with something solid, we'd love to hear it.

Until then, we need to figure out how to teach people not to send an $800 venmo for a $1500 item because someone with a username like "jfdashsfd" told them at 3:25 AM "the seller isn't active on this forum, email mox_gfg33342@hotmael.cx.ru for a quick response brother"

BWRY

Is this aimed at me or BERGX7? I asked for a PM simply to go over my specific questions to a listing that Bergx7 bumped within the past 30 days. From this request alone, I received two bogus pitches but not from Bergx7.

bergx7

BWRY I think you’ll find a lot of scammers look a lot like new forum participants such as yourself so some of the old farts (myself included) get frustrated by the complexity of selling things on here. THAT BEING SAID, it doesn’t mean YOU are not legit, just that we have to do a little more legwork to diligence vs someone that’s been on here for years. Your dollar is certainly worth just as much as theirs and I appreciate the interest.

I received your PM and happy to discuss the wheels with you to understand if they are right for you.

And I appreciate the free bumps from all.

bergx7

BUMP still available