Request for assistance: Need a wiki page for buying and selling GTA01

[Kevin Zuber]

Hi,

I agree with you, that you need some sort of "pushing" to get noticed a
possible buyer about your offer because if I were a buyer, I won't check
every day the wiki for new things..
I also think posting the link to the mailing list is not a very good
solution, because I could imagine that most of the ML-user don't want to
buy a 01 and that a lot of people who want to buy one, won't subscribe
to the list.
My suggest for a solution is taking the best of both: to do something
like a newsletter form (maybe on the wiki) where you can fill in your
mail adress. If there is someone who want to sell his phone on ebay, he
can mail the link to the people subscribed to this "second-hand
neo"-newsletter. Maybe you can also put a link on the subscribing site
in the shop-section of openmoko.com.

Kev




Am Dienstag, den 19.02.2008, 15:42 -0800 schrieb Michael Shiloh:
> Yes, that too. I agree that this would be a completely appropriate item 
> to post to the community list. I'm suggesting the wiki page in addition, 
> and I think having your eBay listing listed on the wiki suggests that 
> you are a member of the community, and not some random outsider 
> (although hard to imagine any of them having a Neo :-)
> 
> Ortwin Regel wrote:
> > Wiki pages are nice but they are not really a good way to push info to
> > people as you would like to do if you have just put your phone on ebay
> > for sale. If I decided to sell my phone, I'd probably send a message
> > to the community mailing list. Is this wanted or would anyone be
> > annoyed by it? I'm not really sure but it would probably be the most
> > effective way to find a buyer for your phone.
> > 
> > Ortwin
> > 
> > On 2/19/08, Michael Shiloh <michael at openmoko.org> wrote:
> >> Thanks everyone for your feedback. As a number of you pointed out, there
> >> is no security in a contact you've made via a random web page, while
> >> eBay has a whole system in place to provide exactly the needed security.
> >>
> >> I think it makes perfect sense to use eBay.
> >>
> >> However, I propose we use our wiki page to point at such eBay listings,
> >> in case anyone has difficulty finding them on eBay.
> >>
> >> So, I propose we re-purpose our wiki page to indicate eBay listings,
> >> perhaps sorted simply into "BUYING" and "SELLING".
> >>
> >> Sound like a plan?
> >>
> >> I thank you all for your input.
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >> Michael Shiloh wrote:
> >>> Hi Community,
> >>>
> >>> I need your help.
> >>>
> >>> Having completely sold out of GTA01, we are still getting a large number
> >>> of requests for them.
> >>>
> >>> On the other hand, many of you intend to purchase a GTA02 and perhaps
> >>> feel you have no use for your GTA01.
> >>>
> >>> Some of you might have other reasons to sell your GTA01.
> >>>
> >>> I'd like a wiki page to allow these buyers and sellers to find each other.
> >>>
> >>> We have a wiki page for GTA01 owners who lived in 850 MHz-only areas to
> >>> sell their units; perhaps this page can be repurposed for this broader
> >>> issue.
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps we call this the OpenMoko flea market.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone?
> >>>
> >>> Michael
> >>>
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