why all the pm/text me for photos posts?
 

Am I missing something, is it more difficult to post pictures?

I'm not guilty of the "text me for pictures" posts, but for me to post pics on the computer used to require me to get my pictures off of my phone/camera onto the computer, then upload to photo bucket, then put the pictures in via html codes… so it was a hassle for me until I paid $ for the tapatalk app on my phone which uploads it directly.

So maybe many don't have the app.

A "hassle" perhaps but as a seller do you not want the greatest chance of success for your sale? Even if it takes 5 - 10 minutes out of your day?

Lots of people are just lazy, and to be honest, I generally bypass all adds which don't have pictures up front. We are buying/selling items which need to be seen to be appreciated, post some damn pictures! aha.

It takes all of 2 minutes to upload photots and make a post. I use photobucket on my phone. Very simple and free. It should be a requirement to have pics in the for sale section

Im the same way if there is no pictures I usually don't even bother looking

I don't understand either so easy to do straight from phone I have no intrest in anything with no pics.

And even for those who don't want to create an external account for storage, Canreef members have 4 MB of free storage. :) Not much, but I can fit about 40 med-res compressed JPG photos on it.

No!

+1 on lazy. I've been there. :P

Lol and why not?

I would imagine that the admin wouldn't want to police that.

Ya i suppose. Wouldnt be to hard though. If you see a post with no pic delete it. Done :mrgreen:

That's still more work than doing nothing, though!

I've ran a forum before. It's a lot of work, without having to watch over a busy b/s/t.

Every post I ever delete results in a PM. Why? You didn't post pic. I don't want to post pic. You have to. Why. It's a rule. That's a dumb rule, I don't have a camera.
This goes on until poster tells me to F off, then I have to ban someone who was trying to sell his Apex to you for $40. I'm frustrated, my kid is now doing something she shouldn't be, you didn't get a deal and we lost a member. All over a pic??

No thanks :)

Lol definitely more work then doing nothing. But fair enough, I could see that being the reason

Hahaha now thats more the explanation I was looking for. Wouldnt want you to have to go through that :mrgreen: Makes sense

:lol: Post of the day

Give the job to Kien... he's done awesome so far :p

Im sure kien is already busy enough. Hes got a nice fish tank, a kid(or 2 not sure) and he looks after canreef which I cant imagine being easy.

im just lazy :P

Sorry, just to clarify I was just trying to be funny. I wouldn't wish that job on anyone!
But for the record, Kien IS doing a fantastic job.

Because this site sucks for posting pictures!

How is it the sites fault?? Its pretty simple. Copy paste done

But than this means I have to have a bucket photo. I should just be able to upload directly not through a third party. This being the sites fault!

im pretty sure you can upload directly to the site as well no?

Test to upload direct

Yup, works fine.

1 minute? 2 at most :)

Maybe they don't really want to send you photos of their corals... ifyaknowwhatimean :lol:

Seriously though, like others, I often bypass FS posts that don't have pictures, especially those that say "go look on google if you want to know what it looks like."

Dunno why people cry about a free site. First it was people who were blind and couldn't see the top right of all posts stating where people lived and now about pics. If people don't like the site that people volunteer to operate than go away or keep quiet.

Fair enough. Gone. Admins please delete this account.

It has nothing to do with the site. The site is great.

The thing about pictures is that people want to know exactly what coral/fish/tank/product that people are trying to sell. If you want to sell your item, take the 2 minutes to post the picture of it. As a buyer, I couldn't give a flying fart about what google says the item looks like, when I am browsing posts, I want to know what your item looks like, and I don't want to mess around for half a day while I wait for someone to text me back and send me tiny photos that I can't see on my phone, or go to someone's house (and most sellers live quite far from me) to see something that wasn't what I was looking for. I can easily go to another post selling a similar item, with a picture and buy it.

I think part of being a decent seller is to provide certain information to convenience buyers. I'm not saying the site has to regulate it and make it mandatory that buyers post photos, but those people just have to expect that they may not get as much interest.

Bye bye

Always gotta be that one guy :)

His loss not ours

He'll be back. Everybody always come back. It's Canreef!!!

Kinda depends on what the item is if pics are needed or even helpful. I bought a bag of rox carbon awhile back from someone. I didn't need to see a picture of him spreading it all over his kitchen counter to verify that it is a bunch of small, black particles. Individuals have commented that this is just the seller being lazy while at the same time being too lazy themselves to inquire on the item.

I don't buy the "too lazy" reasoning. It takes all of 2 minutes to upload a pic which you can refer to in the ad.

Let's say on a site like this that there are 10 people interested in some SPS frags that one is selling. Now the OP needs to respond to 10 people.

To send a pic to someone by PM means you need to have the pic hosted somewhere and PM them the link. So now, it is about 2 minutes to upload a pic somewhere and then 1 minute x 10 PM replies = 10 minutes for a total of 12 minutes.

Or if texting 10 people your pics, it probably takes 1 minute each to read the PM and text the pic for a total of 10 minutes.

So it actually takes longer to PM or text 10 people the pictures than it is to just post the link in the first place. :)

I've been on other forums where you can't list an item unless you post a picture of the item with your name and the name of the forum on it, to make sure you're the one in possession of the goods, and the goods are to be sold on that forum. FS threads without photos get deleted by the mods.

The "lazy" argument is lame. I don't even look at "for sale" posts with no pictures...

I still don't understand why people want to regulate how other people do stuff. If someone wants to sell something but not post a pic, that's their prerogative. If they want to ask 2X what their item is worth, that's also their prerogative. If they want to sell it and not ship.... also their prerogative.
If you don't want to buy something that a pic isn't shown for, that's your prerogative. Don't want to pay what their asking? Fine, don't. And if you don't like how an add is worded, formatted, shipped etc? MOVE ON!
You be you, and let the other person be them. Geeze, 4 pages of this?????