10. Selling items as a private individual or a trader.

Only gold members may offer parts for sale on this forum on a private basis. Traders must be registered as official passionford traders to enter any advertisements on the forum whatsoever and can not do so under a standard members gold membership. Failure to uphold this rule after a warning from teh webteam may result in a lifetime ban. This rule is to protect our paying traders, if you wish to trade using our forums, you are welcome too, as long as you pay your way. Of course this means it is also not possible for you to take a trade membership and then, when it expires, sell things as a normal gold member, as you have already proved yourself to be a trader and must therefore follow traders rules.

"For sale" topics must be in an allocated sales forum and will not be tolerated in any other part of the forum. We also ask that gold members selling items do so in only ONE topic as opposed to listing each item seperately, this aids the smooth running of the busy sales section's. Traders are allowed 5 topics each, reflecting the fact that they are using the forum as a business and pay for this extra exposure with their higher membership fee.

With regards cars for sale we take the same stance as many online car sales websites and deam a user with more than 4 car sales per annum as a professional/part time car trader, thus gold membership will not cover it. This is to protect PF from unscrupulous part time car traders trying to make a living from PassionFord by using our userbase.

The only exception to the rules above is that PassionFords full banner traders are allowed one "sale related" topic each in the general Discussion forum only at any one time.