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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · "Commercial" activities on Buy and Sell board | |
Ha!
These people are essentially second hand traders who earn a "finder's fee" with their time--except everything takes place digitally. I don't have a problem with this per se, so I'm not exactly interested in stopping it or reporting it.
I can think of one particular so-called "photog" who's basically trading full-time. It may have started out as GAS and ADD but it's clearly morphed into a side job, if not the primary job. I've in fact traded with said person. It's so flagrant that I wonder about the relevance of the rule of "no commercial." I can only assume the rule is there to prevent B&S to become fully commercial, but isn't meant to be enforced strictly. But this causes some funny and weird behavior, like deleting photos after a sale and unnecessary verbose justifications ("I got this lens and then I sold it and then I bought it back because I missed it but it's not working for me after all!")
Above all I'm curious whether this issue has been raised and discussed before here, as a kind of sociological and pathological issue. I think many of us (I include myself in this) end up buying and selling a lot out of GAS, and the desire to try new stuff and hunt deals. Still I think the line between GAS and trading is somewhat clear to me.
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