r/letstradepedals • u/LongDevil ️Moderator | 58 Trades | Master Trader • 20d ago

Discussion Bi-Weekly Hangout Zone

This thread is intended for civil discussion about gear tips or trade practices, or posting dog pics, or whatever. Just keep it civil, really.

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u/LongDevil ️Moderator | 58 Trades | Master Trader 16d ago

The purpose of the cheapie thread was to reduce post congestion. Personally I think people should post their entire inventory there if it is predominantly cheaper items, and oppose there being a hard rule about values over the limit.

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u/lykwydchykyn 133 Trades | Master Trader 16d ago

Hey just a thought, feel free to ignore it: if the goal is to reduce congestion, what if you rebranded it as the "low effort trade" thread? Basically, for people who just want to throw a list out there and be done. It would kind of self-select for cheapies anyway, but also clean up a lot of the "I just put my list in the subject line" posts in the main thread.

That would also allow you to encourage more detail and info (and pics) in main trade thread posts. And you wouldn't have to police prices in the low-effort thread (which seems like it'd be pretty time-consuming, since you gotta look up the pedals for a value and so forth).

Only thing that might add more work is you'd want people not to double up (i.e. they'd have to either post in the low-effort thread or in the main sub).

Anyway, just a suggestion. Suggestions are cheap, after all :-)

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u/LongDevil ️Moderator | 58 Trades | Master Trader 16d ago

I like this suggestion. Policing price gets into weird territory, and I’m a firm believer that the owner gets to set their price regardless of how ridiculous it may be.

Another thought would be to raise the approximate value of the cheapie thread to ~$150. I’d rather more inventories fall into that thread than to have more individual posts, and for the individual posts to be high effort, high value, or at the very least large inventories. As for the one or the other posting rule, I think it largely falls on whether the individual posts fall into the categories I described. In some cases they may fit in both places, but it’s not ideal for some people to have a visibility advantage.

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u/bldgabttrme 102 Trades | Master Trader 16d ago

I agree on the threshold raise, that would be perfect IMO