The PghOffRoad Marketplace rules and guidelines are listed below. Violation of any one of these rules can result in a warning, a temporary ban or a permanent ban. Our rules are designed to make your online experience at PghOffRoad a pleasurable and informative experience for everyone involved. We have zero tolerance for rule infractions, so be forewarned.

Also - Ignorance to what the rules are here IS NOT AN EXCUSE. The rules of other boards are of no consequence here. If you use this forum, you agree to our rules - plain and simple.

PghOffRoad assumes no responsibility nor liability for dealings in the Marketplace. Use this section at your own risk. All rules of PghOffRoad.com Posting Guide apply. In addition, the following rules are to be observed.

• Any items offered for transaction in PghOffRoad.com's Marketplace must be transferred under conditions legal for the particular item. It is the responsibility of the seller to determine compliance with any applicable federal/state/local law and to be able to furnish proof upon demand of the moderator that the offered item may be legally transferred under the conditions offered.
• Sales of certain items, which are deemed by the moderators to be difficult to monitor and potential sources of liability to PghOffRoad.com, will be disallowed. If you have an item that you feel would be questionable to sell - it probably shouldn't be posted, feel free to contact one of the administrators for a final ruling.

• Items offered for sale or sale/trade must have posted prices. Items offered for trade only do not require prices.
• "Interest check" and "price check" threads will not be tolerated for common items for which prices may be easily obtained.
• "Or Best Offer" options ("obo") may not be used to sell an item at a price higher than originally asked for. E.g., $50 "obo" means that you may accept less than $50, but you will sell the item to the first person to offer $50. Lower offers may be refused at the discretion of the seller.
• Sellers should make every effort to avoid excessive thread posting. There is no need to separate Want To Buy and Sale threads, nor to post two or three threads per week as additional things appear that you wish to sell. Plan your sales, and show your fellow members respect by not crowding their threads off the front page. Moderators reserve the right to require consolidation of threads or other action when appropriate.
• There will be no more than three "bumps" or posts to a thread by the seller during the life of the thread which have the sole intention of moving a listing to the top of the display. Bumps from members at large are not limited. Exceptions in certain long-running threads may be made at the moderator's discretion.
• In the absence of other agreements between seller and buyer, sellers are expected to provide reasonable tracking and insurance coverage of shipments appropriate for the value of the sale. It is the responsibility of the seller to undertake all investigations of lost shipments and the replacement of value lost by the buyer in such cases. Insuring any shipment of a value over $20 is strongly recommended.

• Caveat Emptor. You and only you are responsible for determining just how good a deal is. We strongly urge a thorough check of the seller's references if unknown to you. We have added a forum for seller, buyer and vendor feedback - use it!
• It is the seller's prerogative to define his desired method for publicly or privately reserving items offered for sale, a practice commonly referred to as "calling dibs." If the seller does not make such definition in the sale thread, the following default rule will apply: Calling "dibs" on an item may be accomplished through email or posting in the sale thread, although it is preferable to post "dibs" in the thread either way. If you're reading it, you can post to it. A "dibs" call is valid for 24 hours from the date/time posted or emailed. You may request an extension of dibs for over 24 hours, but it is the seller's right to accept or deny this request. Moderators reserve the right to refuse or curtail support for conflicts arising from situations where the seller defines a rule less specific than the default.

• Observers may not comment on Seller's prices within the thread. Any price comments must be kept to e-mail.
• The quality of any member as a personality outside of PghOffRoad.com's Marketplace will not be questioned in public. Any such opinions should be forwarded to a moderator in email, and if required a decision will be made as to the continued PghOffRoad.com presence of the person in question.

• Conflicts arising from transactions which do not meet the expectations of either party should be worked out between the interested parties, if at all possible. Only after these efforts are exhausted should a moderator be contacted.
• Moderators, when contacted, will make all reasonable efforts to resolve conflicts up to and including suspension of trading privileges in PghOffRoad.com's Marketplace, but can make no express guarantee that every transaction will be resolved to the satisfaction of both parties. The PghOffRoad Moderators carry no legal authority, and can assume no legal responsibility for trading activity in PghOffRoad.com's marketplace.
• Conflicts between traders are not to appear as threads or posts in Agora. Disputes will be kept private. Any public posting of a trade conflict will be deleted on sight.
• The efforts of PghOffRoad members to inform the population at large of known bad traders or new trolls are appreciated by the moderators. Please search for the username to be sure you aren't creating a duplicate vendor/buyer/seller feedback thread.
• Anyone banned from PghOffRoad over financial issues has one month to work out his issues, or be banned permanently from the forum as a whole. Appeals will be considered, but they are not modes of extension. Abuse of the appeals process will result in a ban.

• Moderators will determine when any rules listed here have been broken.