The below has just been added to our Sales Guidelines

Updated today 12th September 2023

The below was added under SALES POSTING LIMITATIONS...

SALES POST MUST INCLUDE TEXT BASED INFO - At the very least the post should include, the item title, the condition and the price of each item in an EASY TO READ TEXT format.

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Just to expand on the above, images are most welcome to help assist sales but image only sales are not acceptable

As above any item offered for sale on here must have the title, condition and price in text format

thanks

mike

Guidelines can be read via the link below or via the link on the forums index page

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/source-help/content-guidelines/soul-markt-guidelines-r57/

 

a kick up

Reasons why insist on text in sales

Firstly the forum is a text based forum, the whole structure of the site is based on text, that is how the site works

Images are welcome to assist members sales but the sales post must also include the title of the image, the condition and price is needed in text format.

feeds every sales post on here is picked up and shown on and off site via various feeds

site feeds such as activity, search engines, profile pages and so on

social media feeds - all sales post are automatically posted to our various source social media feeds such as Twitter and Facebook, these feeds do not show images, so if no text present, they are posted as blank

search engines -  both on and offsite search engines need text to index the sales posts, members use the search engines to both search for 'wants/sales' and also 'research

disputes - any disputes will be a lot harder to sort if it depends on a image

accessibility - members with poor eye sight can and do increase the text size of browsers and devices for easier reading. Plus 'Text can adapt to different screen sizes and orientations (think desktop vs mobile), and tends to wrap and display properly across them, remaining readable. '

 

 

 

 

On 13/09/2023 at 11:17, Mike said:

a kick up

Reasons why insist on text in sales

Firstly the forum is a text based forum, the whole structure of the site is based on text, that is how the site works

Images are welcome to assist members sales but the sales post must also include the title of the image, the condition and price is needed in text format.

feeds every sales post on here is picked up and shown on and off site via various feeds

site feeds such as activity, search engines, profile pages and so on

social media feeds - all sales post are automatically posted to our various source social media feeds such as Twitter and Facebook, these feeds do not show images, so if no text present, they are posted as blank

search engines -  both on and offsite search engines need text to index the sales posts, members use the search engines to both search for 'wants/sales' and also 'research

disputes - any disputes will be a lot harder to sort if it depends on a image

accessibility - members with poor eye sight can and do increase the text size of browsers and devices for easier reading. Plus 'Text can adapt to different screen sizes and orientations (think desktop vs mobile), and tends to wrap and display properly across them, remaining readable. '

 

 

 

 

 

On 12/09/2023 at 14:55, Mike said:

The below has just been added to our Sales Guidelines

Updated today 12th September 2023

The below was added under SALES POSTING LIMITATIONS...

SALES POST MUST INCLUDE TEXT BASED INFO - At the very least the post should include, the item title, the condition and the price of each item in an EASY TO READ TEXT format.

-----------------------------------------

Just to expand on the above, images are most welcome to help assist sales but image only sales are not acceptable

As above any item offered for sale on here must have the title, condition and price in text format

thanks

mike

Guidelines can be read via the link below or via the link on the forums index page

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/source-help/content-guidelines/soul-markt-guidelines-r57/

 

a double kick up

 

a highlight post

sales without text will be dropped

 

 

On 25/11/2024 at 13:03, Source Team said:

a highlight post

sales without text will be dropped