Welcome to the Gaia Exchange!

As a member, it is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with the forum's rules before posting. Posting in this forum implies that you read and understand the rules and guidelines and that you accept responsibility for the appropriateness of your thread or post.

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK DONATIONS HERE. THIS IS ALSO NOT A CHATTERBOX. DO OR DIE. xD

GENERAL GUIDELINES

Scamming is a bannable offense.
While the Gaia Exchange encourages sales and profit, and although users are rewarded with Gold and hard to find rares, we have no tolerance for people who try to take other users' assets with get-rich-quick schemes or promises of rare items. Running any kind of scam - including but not limited to lottery scams or trade scams - will only result in a ban from the guild.
Trolling is a form of abuse.
Posting to incite negative responses and provoking others is not allowed on Gaia. It is considered trolling, a form of abuse, and warnable offense. Using derogatory language to insult, offend or otherwise attack an individual or a group of people is also a form of trolling. The repercussions for these offenses may be severe.
Harassment may result in punishment.
Persistent harassment of an individual or group of individuals against their wishes is not permitted on Gaia Online. If someone asks you to stop, please leave them alone. If they ask you to leave their thread, please do so immediately.
Spam is only allowed in the Chatterbox forum.
Please do not spam in the Exchange. If a thread is misplaced, simply report it and move on. The Chatterbox has been created just for users who want to gain gold from posting, or chat about things that may not be suitable for other forums.

SELLING/THREAD GUILDELINES

Selling must be the main point of your topic, otherwise it belongs elsewhere.

* Threads where your main focus is to sell, but is also buying a few items, having contests or a small quest are also fine in the exchange.
* Adding a sale onto a thread where the main point is something else does not make your thread legit and it will be moved. It will look like a MINI SHOP and we have a subforum for that. POST THERE IF YOU WILL SELL A LOT OF THINGS.
* Selling artwork belongs in the Mini Shops.

Users cannot have more than 1 active thread going.

* This is to ensure that the forum does not get cluttered with repeat threads and threads with the very same intent, created by the very same user.

This includes selling different items in separate topics. If you have recently finished selling an item and choose to sell another item, you should re-use your existing topic rather than creating a new one, if you are doing so within the same day.

Any such threads that are found to be repeat threads will be recycled immediately. Please bear in mind that intentionally creating multiple repeat threads is considered spam and will be treated as such with a warning.

Posting Guidelines!


Advertising or begging in another user's thread is not permitted.

* This includes any post where a user is posting in an attempt to get users to go elsewhere unless given permission by the thread owner.
* Links to profiles, avatar arena entries, journals, personal threads, other exchange threads, market, etc are not allowed.
* This also includes "bump for a bump", begging in other users' threads, and "bump for X item".

If a thread becomes a hangout and is no longer relevant to selling, it may be removed.

* This includes threads that become mostly chatting or spam later on. If the content surrounding the sale is so far greater than the sale itself, it does not belong in the Exchange. This includes Hangout Threads, and these will be moved to the Friends Chat forum accordingly.

Posting in an attempt to disrupt the sale or purchase of an item is not permitted.

* Going into a thread to post the "correct" prices of an item is not permitted. This includes posting the store prices of items and claiming the seller is scamming, and posting as an attempt to persuade potential buyers not to buy.

Miscellaneous Guidelines!



Bumping Contests:

* All bumping contests must from now on be finite, and the contest will not be allowed to be conditional on the outcome of the item sale in the exchange. Meaning, if or when a user holds a bumping contest, there will be a winner regardless of item sold.
* If you are having a bumping contest in an exchange thread, the moment the item is sold or you close/abandon the thread, whoever has made the most bumps is the default winner of said contest.
- Failure to reward prizes at the end of a contest will be treated as scamming.
- As a reminder; any user who is found making multiple threads to sell the same thing without ending previous ones will have their thread removed with a warning for spamming.

Thank you and please enjoy. smile