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Originally Posted by R/T Tuning
a lot of these "businesses" fail pretty hard at it. They are the hero when they are selling coilovers at $10 above cost but their razor thin profit margins prevent them from ever growing and investing in their "business", and once they realize their customer base is only willing to buy on price and not even factor in things like service or knowledge, they are gone.
The problem is more so the fact that anyone with an email address containing the letters 86 can be a vendor and sell parts on the forum. It needs to be on the consumer to do their research and deal with vendors who are authorized dealers, or have established history and credibility. Or hell, even a contact phone number . end rant.
that being said it still sucks to see people bilked out of their hard earned cash. never a good thing
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There's no way to prevent someone from creating a "legitimate business" selling $10 above cost on a $2000 item.
My suggestion is for the site to take a bit more initiative, filter out bad apples before they get the opportunity to sell... that's all there is to it.
The site enforces the "daily bump" limit pretty strict for vendors. I don't see why my two suggestions so far (verification of business license/entity and this suggestion for group buy listing restriction) would have any impact on a normal business selling legitimate, ready-to-ship goods.
-alex