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Sure but he can do that regardless of whether he tells the world it's on ebay or not.
In the old world people deleted/trashed the threads then stuck their stuff on eBay or Gumtree or Singletrack or YACF or...
Yes some people would have seen the thread and known what it was about and could technically make an enquiry.
I'm kinda surprised at the permissiveness of this to be honest - we have an exclusivity rule. It's on here, or its not on here and it's somewhere else. If say for example we take Amey's ad for his Trek it's on here and on eBay. I'm not sure why that's OK now.
Howard
Sure but he can do that regardless of whether he tells the world it's on ebay or not. Also, if someone closes a sale thread without it having been sold, isn't it on ebay in 90% of the cases anyway?
I think the cases that are actually bad is when it's on both at the same time, but they don't tell you about it, nicely breaking the rules on both sites. Personally I don't think it's unfair to inform people 'hey this is on ebay now' after a prolonged period of no one buying it on the forum. I'd see it differently if the forum was just used as an 'announcement' platform to drum up interest for the ebay sale.