sqweak
08-19-2024, 11:02 AM
I replied to a marketplace post and an unrelated forum vendor DM'd me that they sold the same wheels (quoted, below)
Is this behavior condoned by the forum? It's pretty tacky on a few levels:
1) The vendor is trying to steal a sale from the member that posted their item in the classifieds.
2) The vendor is incapable of meeting or beating the price of used items, making this cold call rather pointless.
In 25+ years of participating in and running enthusiast communities, literally the only other people I've seen slide into DMs/email like this are scammers. Not exactly the crowd I'd want my legitimate business modeling behavior from. The net result is a bad impression of both the vendor for wasting my time and limited DM space, and the forum for allowing this behavior.
HRE | ***
Hey there!
Hope everything's going well on your end! Saw that you might be in the market for some HRE wheels. We carry a great selection of wheels from top brands like BBS, HRE, Brixton Forged, Vossen, Vorsteiner, Rotiform, Al13, Vertini, and Volk Racing!
Is this behavior condoned by the forum? It's pretty tacky on a few levels:
1) The vendor is trying to steal a sale from the member that posted their item in the classifieds.
2) The vendor is incapable of meeting or beating the price of used items, making this cold call rather pointless.
In 25+ years of participating in and running enthusiast communities, literally the only other people I've seen slide into DMs/email like this are scammers. Not exactly the crowd I'd want my legitimate business modeling behavior from. The net result is a bad impression of both the vendor for wasting my time and limited DM space, and the forum for allowing this behavior.
HRE | ***
Hey there!
Hope everything's going well on your end! Saw that you might be in the market for some HRE wheels. We carry a great selection of wheels from top brands like BBS, HRE, Brixton Forged, Vossen, Vorsteiner, Rotiform, Al13, Vertini, and Volk Racing!