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Originally Posted by GordyB
I think there has to be some common sense. It depends on how you are setup, what you are charging and how much work you are doing.
There's a big difference between doing 1 car a month to help someone out for a tenner or a pack of beers, to someone setup properly with trade insurance, public liability insurance and charging the same as other T4 guys.
I don't think it's anything to do with main source of income as some of the T4 guys have other jobs as well. A lot of the traders don't make much money from it but their fees help the club survive.
What we don't want, is for someone such as yourself to not offer services as he is paying more in traders fees than he is making helping people, thus the help to people in your area wouldn't be there because of the club rules.
All just my opinion of course, I've no idea how the rules are made/changed or why they were put in force in the first place.
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It would be more the helping out for a drink kind of thing. I wouldn't be in it for the money. As long as I am free and not busy I honestly wouldn't mind helping people with things such as fault code reading, dealer options, and if I have time ZCS coding for things like remote boot release, cruise activation etc.
If someone were to offer a drink for it then I wouldn't say no. The only time I would ask for money would be if I were to travel to someone to cover fuel which I think would be fair. But people would need to know I don't have much free time so would only be as and when I can do it.
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Originally Posted by Mike Noc
I would have thought it is pretty obvious that if you want to trade on this forum you have to pay traders' fees full stop.
If you just want to help out on the forum then offer your services for free - many of us do.  |
Sorry but I didn't mention anything about trading on the forum. So say if I had some parts made that were no longer available and wanted to sell them on here without being a trader, I wouldn't be able to unless I sold them at cost price? Regardless of the time / money spent on getting them reproduced?