A suggestion for those who post anything for sale

[Kryptonian]

If you put an add in the for sale/adoption section, could you please post where you are located. I just ignore the for sale threads since most of them are people in the US and the cost of cites makes the purchase to expensive to bother for just one animal. At the very least if you dont want to post your state/province and city at least say which country you are in.
Thanks

[dsirkle]

I personally think that it is helpful to others to enter this info in your user control panel and have it show up on every post that you make.

[Shadera]

Agreed. Says right on each post in the info under our names where we're from.

[nixer]

i love those local pickup ads yet they dont have even a state

[Kryptonian]

Yes it does have it under your info if you have decided to enter it. But even there it may only have your state or provence. If it is a local pickup, the city would be good to know.

[Mike Cavanaugh]

Yeah, I suggested to the mods a while back that they make it mandatory to put the sellers location in the for sale ads. Unfortunately though I was shot down..... Maybe they will reconsider???

[ThyTempest]

I agree with Mike, location (at least state/province) should be mandatory.

[JLC]

If we are "shooting down" something every single time we don't, won't, or can't implement a member's suggetion about running the site...then we're probably expert marksmen by now.

We value member input and ideas...and have often implemented them. We enjoy doing so when we can. But they are not always practical or possible.

As for requiring a city or other location on ads in the sales forum...that simply falls outside the realm of practical. There's no way (that I'm aware of) to make it an automatic function where an ad simply can't be placed without that information provided. And our mods already do enough work in that forum to keep it running properly as it is. If they had to scour every ad for locations and then take the time to pull ads and PM members and deal with the complaints every single time someone didn't post their location....... nope....not gonna do that to my mods.

If a member is thoughtless enough that they don't put their location up on an ad, then the loss of the sale is their loss. It's no skin off anyone else's nose. And if you see an ad that you're really interested in...it doesn't take but a moment to shoot the member a PM and ASK where they are from.

I'm sorry if I fail to see a major problem here.

[twh]

i find it helpful to put in a ad:shipping from zip 49829,cuts down on giving a zillion shipping quotes.have fun!

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Easy solution for those who complain how about a simple PM

What is it gonna cost you to sent a PM and inquire about the seller's location? 5 second of your time?