johanmena wrote:
And clicking on “Post Reply” tells you that you don’t have enough points to post. Seems like quite the hurdle…
" a big hurdle?" I don't mean to sound negative or condescending to your post but if you are a photographer, and I see you live in NYC, this should be no problem for you.
The "Big Apple" has sooooo many photo ops in just a few blocks.
Get those creative juices flowing and just snap away.
Good luck! and WELCOME!!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
" a big hurdle?" I don't mean to sound negative or condescending to your post but if you are a photographer, and I see you live in NYC, this should be no problem for you.
The "Big Apple" has sooooo many photo ops in just a few blocks.
Get those creative juices flowing and just snap away.
Good luck! and WELCOME!!
Dan
Thanks.
The hurdle is not taking pictures but posting a message in any of the forums as a new user.
I haven't been on the forum recently but just bought a Canon R50 and want too buy some lenses. I totally understand that I haven't posted enough for PMs. So many people just want to take advantage of people.
I’m new here and came because I heard it is a good place to buy well-maintained gear.. I am a member on fora for other hobbies where where members buy/sell. They don’t require paid memberships to buy. They generally require some # of posts before you can create a new thread. I’ve become a paying member on some of those sites as I became more involved there.
But these are rules here, so we follow them.
Requiring me to buy a membership to buy an increases the cost to me. It also looks like many sellers want the buyer to pay the PP fees. That makes it more expensive, too. That has me looking at other sites. That hurts the members here who lose a potential sale. So I’ll engage and see whether earn the right to PM before I find what I’m looking for elsewhere.
Anybody know if sellers can start PMs with buyers who don't have enough posts to send a PM? There is a camera body I am interested in, but don't know how to start a conversation since posting emails in the thread is against the rules.
"Anybody know if sellers can start PMs with buyers who don't have enough posts to send a PM? "
—good question; I'm in that boat after finding a long discontinued item for sale
Apparently they can send you a PM, but you can't reply to it.
You can, however reply to the sale post and, I guess, request that they PM you some alternate contact info.
Ran into this today and the item sold in the time I was trying to build up my post count or to consider the buy/sell membership as a bypass. Will slowly work on getting my post count up and hopefully by the time that's done, there's another listing I can actually action. Discovering the post throttling mechanism was pretty funny too.
