We, the Staff of TCO, do our best to provide a safe place for trading and buying and selling. In doing so we have to take steps to ensure the safety of our patrons. One such step was to make the Card Swap Thread and the new Sellers/Buyers Thread restricted Forums.
To get in, you must apply for access.
You can apply by posting your request here, however you must first have at least a 25 post count.After a brief check, you will be given access to the forums.
This may take 1-2 weeks before access is given, so please be patient. It also helps speed things up if your email is visible in your profile.
Simply post here. Once you have been checked out and verified, you will be given access and your post will be deleted. If your post is deleted and you still do not have access, this means your request has been denied.
Please do not repeatedly re-post asking for access once you've already been denied. DO NOT ASK WHY YOU WERE DENIED EITHER! The reasons are listed below. If you were denied, it is because of those listed reasons. Warnings will be issued if you continue to repost asking for access or asking why you were denied. It is all explained within this post.Users who have been removed from the Card Swap and Sellers/Buyers Forum for scamming/ripping/violating the Rules and Regulations of the Forums will not be given access.
Users with links or suspected ties to the above Users will also not be given access.
I am not the only Administrator who updates this thread. DO NOT PM ME asking why you may have been denied access. I probably was NOT the person who denied you access. If you PM me it will be ignored.Once you receive your access, it is recomended that you go over the Rules And Regulations Of TCO to ensure your stay here is trouble free.
Please note that some of you may returning after a long absence from using TCO, and may have previously had access to the trade area at some point in time on .ca
For the first 4 months of this site being active we transitioned all members who requested it. We had also given users a months notice prior to the transition that we were migrating to the new site.
Since TCO is provided to you for free, and unlike Ebay does not take a cut of any business you do, we ask that you give back to the site by contributing to the ongoing conversation on the site. We are sorry if this seems like a hassle, but it has a secondary benefit; it protects our active users from potential scammers who want to make a quick buck. (You can find an example of one of those scammers
here)
So even if you did have access and such on .ca, we are asking all of our users who want trade access to actively participate in the site prior to getting trade access. Please note, post abuse rules still apply. Please actually post relevent posts. Someone who is simply spamming the site to get their 25 posts without actually adding anything to the site will likely have some or all of those posts deleted.
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
