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amszyh said:*clears out cobwebs*I'd come back for trading. Pphf trading would have to be allowed though or stamps or something equivalent.

Hi amszyh.

In my opinion, pphf trading is really "selling" and FW doesn't allow that. Trading to me means that I send you my ten coupons and you send me your ten coupons, or something similiar to that type of transaction.

I'm assuming PPHF means PayPal Handling Fee, in that you send someone money via PayPal in exchange for a coupon? Perhaps a FCHF system could be implemented instead using FatCash.

jayK said:I'm assuming PPHF means PayPal Handling Fee, in that you send someone money via PayPal in exchange for a coupon? Perhaps a FCHF system could be implemented instead using FatCash.

That would be a waste off time because most of the fraudulent activity takes place behind the scenes in chat or via PM anyways.

TM1 said:jayK said:I'm assuming PPHF means PayPal Handling Fee, in that you send someone money via PayPal in exchange for a coupon? Perhaps a FCHF system could be implemented instead using FatCash.

That would be a waste off time because most of the fraudulent activity takes place behind the scenes in chat or via PM anyways.If selling will happen behind the scenes anyway, offering a legit outlet for compensation (perhaps with an eBay-like feedback system?) would help reduce fradulent activity. Not sure if FW wants to get into that business though.

1) Makes sense to include some .com deals. For example, Safeway.com and Amazon Grocery.

2) HBA at grocery stores should be in grocery, of course. I'd be ok keeping Bath and Body Works/Body Shop/etc type deals in HD, as they clearly are not grocery stores.

5) Do you guys really want to open a can of trading worms? If trades aren't allowed anywhere else, they should not be allowed in GC. If they are allowed for GC, then questions will arise as to why the rest of the site can't have trades/for-sale.

Perhaps buy/sell/trade deserves its own thread for discussion.

MarsdenFubar said:1) It was mentioned to me that Grocery coupons should be for only brick and mortar deals. No .com stuff.I disagree, Amazon.com alone has a lot of grocery deals.

2) Do you want to totally pull Grocery/Health & Beauty out of the modern HD category system, and just have it in GC?

3) Do you want Health & Beauty stuff under $10 in GC (like free stuff guidelines)?IMHO Health & Beauty should stay in HD. Anything you can eat or drink should be in GC. Dollar limits would just be confusing.

4) Do you want stuff categorized at all (like modern HD), or just all deals in a single root category?Categorization would be a huge value-add, and if people don't like it they don't need to filter on categories.

if you start allowing buying/selling/trading of anything, I don't want to see the crap arguments/complaints being dumped into OT though. OT tends to be the dumping ground of all kinds of crap, we don't need fighting over trades gone bad in there, or rants about other members in there too.

Most coupons spell it out specifically that selling, purchasing, trading and reproducing the coupon is prohibited.

I randomly pulled three coupons from my clipped coupons:

"Void if altered, copied, sold, purchased, transferred, exchanged, or where prohibited or restricted by law."

"May not be reproduced, purchased, traded or sold."

"Void if altered, transferred, sold, reproduced or exchanged."

Even if FW ignored the legal reasons not to have a trade/sale forum, invariably, there are the "I didn't get my coupons/money/right coupons/coupons were expired/didn't get them on time/the person is a bad trader/yada yada" posts.

And there will be folks who set up shop using FW as a front to sell coupons -- FW will become their store front. Coupons can be very profitable and an open market such as FW will be very welcome to them. Matching up future store ad sales and coupons is a perfect match. Is FW really wanting to be the store front for someone's coupon selling business?

And what happens when others want in on the coupon selling but they start selling fake coupons? The distribution of fake coupons was rampant in the past and there's no doubt it will happen again. When there's the possibility of making $$$ on a sale, it will happen much more regularly.

If coupon selling is such a great idea, why hasn't it been allowed in the HD or One Time Use Forums? If you want to experiment, try it there first. There are fewer coupons and there should be less fraud than will happen in the GC Forum. And, at least the majority of those coupons don't specifically state that coupons can't be "altered, transferred, sold, reproduced or exchanged."