Attention New measures to stop scams and dishonest behavior in the Exchange

knarfeng said:
I'm absolutely in favor of immediate adoption of Rule 1.
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Hi Frank, the banner at the top of the page within the exchange states that sales threads need a pic of the knife with a written note containing the date and your username. Within the main page of the exchange rules it says the same, date and username.

The first post in this thread is the only post saying that the note also needs to include “BladeForums” or “BFC”, kinda seems like you’re fighting an uphill battle because of this.
 
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Jsega51 said:
Hi Frank, the banner at the top of the page within the exchange states that sales threads need a pic of the knife with a written note containing the date and your username. Within the main page of the exchange rules it says the same, date and username.

The first post in this thread is the only post saying that the note also needs to include “BladeForums” or “BFC”, kinda seems like you’re fighting an uphill battle because of this.
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Spark has fixed that.
 
I'm going to note, that Spark said:
All for sale threads must contain a picture of the knife or item with a note showing the username of the seller, the date the thread is being made, and BladeForums or BFC mentioned on the note. To prevent photoshopping this should be hand written but if you want to print it out and take multiple pictures from angles, be my guest, but you must show the knife (or item) is in hand and available when listing.
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That means that you cannot satisfy the requirement by electronically adding the information via photoshop or other photo modifying software. The information needs to be IN the photo WITH the knife on a PIECE OF PAPER. The whole reason for the requirement is so that a seller cannot doctor up some knife photo the found on the web and claim it to be a knife they are selling. So adding the information electronically is absolutely not acceptable.
 
Effective immediately we are implementing two new rules to help curb scams and dishonest behavior in the Exchange

1. All for sale threads must contain a picture of the knife or item with a note showing the username of the seller, the date the thread is being made, and BladeForums or BFC mentioned on the note. To prevent photoshopping this should be hand written but if you want to print it out and take multiple pictures from angles, be my guest, but you must show the knife (or item) is in hand and available when listing.
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A watermark or addition to a photo does not suffice. You must place the "note" with the knife in the images...not stamp or append a photo with the requested information.
knarfeng said:
I'm going to note, that Spark said:


That means that you cannot satisfy the requirement by electronically adding the information via photoshop or other photo modifying software. The information needs to be IN the photo WITH the knife on a PIECE OF PAPER. The whole reason for the requirement is so that a seller cannot doctor up some knife photo the found on the web and claim it to be a knife they are selling. So adding the information electronically is absolutely not acceptable.
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As someone found out the hard way earlier today...after deciding it was a hill worth dying on. (Well, he can come back in a week if he decides to cooperate.)
 
Blues said:
As someone found out the hard way earlier today...after deciding it was a hill worth dying on. (Well, he can come back in a week if he decides to cooperate.)
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I've had similar discussions with several sellers. But they apparently considered the real estate less valuable.
 
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