Forum rules

ADVERTISING / VENDOR RULES:

*Applies to ALL Members - Please Read*
To learn more about becoming a Supporting Vendor, please send your info by email or PM to ADMIN, including which website(s) you’re interested in sponsoring.

1. Offers for products and/or services of any kind are considered advertising. Such advertising is NOT permitted unless you have an official Supporting Vendor title:
Our Supporting Vendors pay a fee to support this forum; in return they are entitled to the exclusive privilege of promoting their goods and services to our membership and we expect all members to respect that exclusivity.

To avoid problems, please observe the following guidelines:

* Do not discuss, answer questions about, defend, promote, or advertise your company, products, projects, services, or pricing, including hobby-for-profit projects
* Do not participate in other member's threads about your company, products, projects, services, or pricing
* Do not post links to your sales-related website or links to your sales-related posts on other forums
* Do not list contact info in posts, avatars, or signatures

2. Business signatures are ONLY permitted by Supporting Vendors - violations will be removed w/o notice [*]Do not solicit orders/business for a non-supporting or outside vendor

3. Members MAY discuss products offered by a Non-Supporting Vendor as a general info post only. If, in our judgment, it appears as though you are advertising on behalf of a N/S vendor, your post/thread may be edited or deleted and subject to warning/infraction:

a) A member MAY post "I found a great deal/product/service/price from Acme Auto" including details -That is sharing general info based on your personal experience

b) That member may NOT add to the post"Acme Auto said forum members get a special deal" -OR- "call Joe at 123-4567 or check out his website and say I sent you" -That is promoting/advertising on behalf of the N/S vendor and/or the N/S vendor using you to promote/advertise on their behalf

c) Members may NOT promote goods and/or services they have purchased from a fellow member who is not a Supporting Vendor by specifically naming that member or referring other members to him/her. This will also be considered promoting/advertising on behalf of the N/S vendor and/or the N/S vendor using you to promote/advertise on their behalf

d) If a member makes multiple posts/threads about a same NSV it will appear he/she is associated with, or advertising for, that vendor and he/she will be warned. The line is thin and we will use our judgment as to when that line is being crossed

4. Members may NOT post links to sales-related ads/threads/posts on outside Forums and may NOT post copies of those ads/posts/threads to this Forum. Those posts will be removed and subject to warning/infraction

5. Supporting Vendor Group Buys are permitted but can ONLY be posted by an official Supporting Vendor. Members may not initiate, post, or manage Group Buys, nor post threads to generate interest in a GB. All business must be conducted by the Supporting Vendor

6. Non-Supporting Vendor Group Buys, promotions, and special offers are NOT permitted to be posted, or linked to, by any member and will be removed