So, I had lot's of sale threads this year in the marketplace section and from time to time I make some kind of offers, like 'buy one get one free for the next three hours' or 'half price for the next three hours'. Last tuesday I've done one like this and didn't close it, because to my understanding, after the 'three hours' period the price is back as usual. So, after two days an old timer has found my thread and was thinking that he could get some for free, because It was not stated clearly the GMT hour when it has started, so for him the offer is valid for unlimited time. I have checked and there is no rule saying that this is not the right format and the mods never told me that the format should specifically talk about a starting exact time, everybody can think for himself that the starting point is when the thread was created or when it was last time edited. So, after two days and over 24 hours after the thread was last time modified( without any connection to that) this old timer post SOLD (even do the thread was clearly saying that if you want to buy something, you need to ask me for availability). I'm telling him 'sorry, but that offer had ended two days ago, as the thread says' and he ask's Amanda to check it. Amanda decides that he's wrong, but he's not happy with the decision and start complaining, so that Eric has to check it out as well. So now the ruling is changed and he's happy, the ruling saying that I didn't said in the thread when exactly the offer will start, even do you can easily assume that it could not start just in the last 3 hours, because the last edit was over 24 hour before, so it will be impossible for the offer to be valid if the thread was not touched for over 24 hours and the offer was for 'the next three hours'. I have tried to find a rule which will say that I did something wrong but I could not find any also I have checked how the other users are selling for limited time and over 90% of them are not using any starting point for the offer/auction, everybody will know that it will be when the thread has started or at least the last time when it was modified. We are not talking about big amounts, so I could easily give them away for free, but it's about being treated fair, because I'm asked to know a rule that was not a rule before and everybody is using the same format, but just in my case is wrong, because an old timer is complaining. If you check most of the limited time auctions/sales, over 90% of the threads will not have any starting point in time(GMT) because it's easy to assume when the sale has started. Now, I don't care about these two domains, but I do want to be treated fair and not to be asked to respect a rule that was nowhere to be find before and which nobody told me it should be in one way or another, just to make an old timer happy.
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