Listia! It's like eBay but not!

[Nique]

So this is kind of neat. Listia is a site where you bid on items for (more or less) free. Using a system of credits or points which you can earn by participating in the site and listing your own items for free. It's basically 'trade now/ trade later'.

I've been using it and had pretty good luck so far. If it sounds like something you'd be into you can go here --> SIGNUP ONLY CLICK HERE IF YOU REALLY WANT TO DO THIS! BIG WARNING LETTER CAUSE POS IS BIG FAT JERK WHO HATES FUN : ( and you'll get some bonus credits - I will too, if I'm reading the fine print correctly.

I thought this was cool becuase last time I tried to use eBay, they were charging for listing items.

[Bells]

Ah... hold on let me see if i got this just right.

So, you list your things. And people with points "bid" on your things with said points. And you get their points for your item and you can use those points to get other items.

Did i got that right?

It's... well, it sounds interesting actually. It just really depends on what people are offering out there. How does they handle shipping costs?

[Nique]

Paypal. Or sometimes people wants more credits so they'll list their auctions under free shipping. I've mostly been looking at/ trading video game stuff but there's some movies and loads of other things too.

[POS Industries]

Nique turns out to be world's most cleverly disguised adbot. Film at 11.

[Bells]

POS, i really don't think this one pushes against the rule... i mean, it's really like making a thread to talk about ebay... isn't?

I made an account. The search system isn't the best one, but maybe there is some stuff in here...

[POS Industries]

It's more the "Here's a link to it, and here's a link to where you can sign up!" thing that's a bit sticky.

[Nique]

Seriously, I'm trying to figure out if I'm supposed to moderate this or not.

I'm not sure what you're looking for here - Proof that I'm not affliated with Listia? Is there a more appropriate thread/ subforum?

It's more the "Here's a link to it, and here's a link to where you can sign up!" thing that's a bit sticky.

Seriously though, I see what you mean. I guess I'm just not sure how else to bring up something like this. I mean... would you not want the extra credits if you were signing up?

EDIT: I mean, man I know what this sounds like and I'm kicking myself for sounding like I'm totally 100% buying into something unscrupulous (It's not, esspecially considering how little information they ask for). But I feel like maybe I've been around long enough that you guys probably don't need to second guess me on this kind of stuff.

[POS Industries]

I may need to see your papers, yes.

But in all honesty I mostly don't know what's to discuss here.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

what's to discuss here.

The idea of trading online currency as opposed to national currency, currency which is unaffected by international exchange rates?

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Nique

Seriously though, I see what you mean. I guess I'm just not sure how else to bring up something like this. I mean... would you not want the extra credits if you were signing up?

Yeah, I'm really not trying to be a hardass here and I'm sure everything's on the up and up, it just struck me as rather funny how amazingly similar your opening post was to a number of adspams we've gotten here over the years, and then it occurred to me that I wasn't really even sure if I should address the issue similarly in the interest of fairness and precedent or whatever.

That and like I said I'm skeptical about just how much of a thread you can really get out of this, but on the whole it's still better than a Seil thread. So there's that!

Originally Posted by phil_

The idea of trading online currency as opposed to national currency, currency which is unaffected by international exchange rates?

Welp, get on that.