Rules for classifieds... do you want them?

Free market FTW. More ads means more choice and fairer pricing. If you want to sell something for more than it's worth, try eBay or gumtree.

The current nursery period rules are enough to prevent obvious scammers registering and posting ads straight away; if we make the hoops to jump through more arduous, we just alienate the new guys. The last thing this place needs is to appear more cliquey.

As far as fencing goes, I don't think it's that easy to do here. The community is pretty vocal about things that seem fishy, and as long as that continues, I think it's fine. It's certainly easier to fence on gumtree and eBay. Possibly the only concession to make is to enforce a price for each item, or at least an ONO price. This way, anyone trying to move on stolen goods will give themselves away if they set too low a price. Furthermore, this has the benefit of giving everyone good visibility as to how much things are worth in general, which may stop people getting burned later down the line.

Sorry for the essay. In summary:

keep classifieds as is
keep nursery period as is
make a rule that you have to list a price (or ONO price) for each item up for sale