# About the Buy & Sell category **URL:** https://forum.headphones.com/t/about-the-buy-sell-category/2717 **Category:** Buy & Sell **Created:** [February 15, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/about-the-buy-sell-category/2717 "2019-02-15T01:02:11Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 31
### Author: ![Torq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/torq/32/16384_2.png) [@Torq](https://forum.headphones.com/u/Torq) #### Post date: [October 13, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/about-the-buy-sell-category/2717/31 "2021-10-13T11:49:51Z")
You have to be an active, participating, member of the site to start new topics - especially Buy/Sell listings. This is to prevent abuse, spam and to deter scammers (e.g. those with no post history/reputation and who therefore have nothing to lose by being a bad actor). That takes a couple of weeks of **normal** interactions (not just reading, and not just making random/pointless posts on other people’s threads) for the system to promote you to a trust level that can start posts (and thus make Buy/Sell posts). In other words, just trying to make lots of posts in the hopes of gaming the system will have the opposite effect. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.headphones.com/t/about-the-buy-sell-category/2717)._