Could there be discussion on making it a requirement to post a pic of the item you are selling on the EE? No pic gets the post deleted type of thing?
Why not just ask the seller for a pics?
It’s a pain and sellers are typically rude when you ask. To me it’s lazy not to post a pic.
I wouldn’t buy from a seller that was rude.
Then don’t do business with them.
The only thing I run into when getting pics up is that it is not always easy to get them posted and generally easier for me to email. Will generally try to get something up but there is never a promise. But making it a rule I think is counter-productive and may hurt those who don’t have the means to easily post the pics on the site.
On a flip side I’ve never had an issue asking for or getting pics from a seller other than getting particular pics to allow me to see high wear, areas, bored, ect that I need to be able to see before stating I would be an interested buyer.
Having a picture doesn’t necessarily do anything. I don’t see it as needing to be required.
I can describe an item as great and post a picture of it I took 2 years ago, and when you get it its all marked up. The picture didn’t do anything. Hell the picture could be snagged from somewhere on the internet.
It’s not a matter of sellers having pictures. It’s about sellers having honesty. Likewise for buyers.
If you require a picture, ask for it. Other buyers may not. Pictures likely help the item sell but I don’t see a reason for posting a picture of a beaten up commie-state compliant 10rd mag I’m selling for $5.00.
Pictures should be mandatory. However, I do not think we have the active manpower to police this.
Also, unlike paypal and ebay, most of us can’t make claims against a money order, check or paypal if we use it. So the pictures do not do a lot of good for that with guns and gun parts.
I do not buy from people without a picture in their ad unless I know that person. That’s my policy.
Pictures would be nice but what I’d really like to see is people starting to get their asses jacked for bumping EE threads with “SOLD” or “SPF”. There’s no need, it muddies the water & takes up bandwidth.
That is a rules vio and subject to enforcement. However, as Shivan said we do have a finite amount of manpower to monitor that. When you do see it, please report the post and someone will take care of it.
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?37102-EE-Procedures-and-Rules
I can introduce you to some people on here that I have personally infracted for bumping posts early. But I am unaware of a specific rule that tells people not to put “SOLD” or “SPF” in their thread, as long as they are not doing it within the 48-hour window. In a perfect world, people would just edit the title of their thread to say SOLD and save everyone time.
I think the biggest problem we have is that a statistically significant number of people never bother to read the rules stickied in every single EE subforum.
What drives me batshit is the people who edit a post to remove the price the item sold for. We’d get fewer “What is my 7.98mm Parkerized Annihilator of Doom worth?” threads if people stopped doing that.
There, now I feel better.
You’d get a ton of reports & I’d hate for it to get annoying. 
PS, just sent one your way. Boy, that was fast.
Actually, we do want people to use the report post button. It makes things a lot easier for the limited number of folks we have as mods/staff. When someone uses the report post feature, all the mods/staff for that particular subforum get an email. It might even send one to everybody, I am honestly not sure.
This usually brings attention relatively quickly, and also helps us establish a pattern of behavior. When we start seeing the same name over and over, it results in closer attention and often a “course correction”.
With close to 80,000 users, and just a half-dozen folks watching the EE, any and all help is appreciated.
This drives me nutz as well. This forum isn’t the only place it happens and I don’t understand the mentality of deleting the asking price. The asking prices are good reference points that are lost for whatever stupid reason people delete the prices.
[I’m not sure if I should listen to the devil on my right shoulder or the angel on my left.]
But yeah, if would be nice if people read the rules in the stickies… Cause then they’d know that bumping a thread with a “SOLD” post is a violation.
I’ll be a sumbitch. You are right, I just re-read that sticky now. Sigh.
I need to go write a whole bunch of tickets and stick them under windshields now.
See, that’s why I like you… You took it like a champ. 
I totally agree with this one, I went looking at some prices of what I wanted to sell to see their value. Prices had been erased. I’d even go a step further and want people to put actual selling price/terms in their original post when they go back and edit the title to say sold.
As far as pictures, don’t buy from people who can’t make the effort to post a picture. If they can’t make the effort to do that, what else can’t they make the effort for?
I always post pictures in my adds, and from now on will be adding price sold for when I go back and edit it as sold.
I wouldn’t buy from a seller who couldn’t bother to put up a pic, unless it was something where a pic would have no utility to a purchasing decision. Seems to me a self correcting issue.
That is the MOST obnoxious thing ever. Period. Full stop.
What (lack of) logic behind it is almost awe inspiring in its absurdity. Drives me absolutely nuckin futz.
Yeah, when I wrote that rule, I included this specific item because I realized way back then that the price was an important factual piece of information for reference:
“Do not edit the final sale price from your ad. It is helpful for the buyer, seller and this community to know what items sold for recently, and in the past.”
I suspect we could modify some behavior with infractions…