The idea is not technical) I think it will be not so bad to create some online shop/market on these platform with new or used QNAP parts (from manufacturer and end users) to make it easy to repair or modify our clouds by myself.
I think, most of us have enough tech experience to do basic and moderate repairs - also due to great design, quality and repairability.
Personally I had a problem with small SATA board on my TS-253 Pro, which fail to see second drive in bay. I’m sure that I can replace in easily, so I do not need to engage a serviceman. But it still hard to find some particular part for reasonable price.
How do YOU think about?
Thank you for your opinion)
There’s plenty of online forums with a Buy, Sell, Trade section open to registered users. There’s no need for payment processing or anything else other than a section to post and some guidelines.
I think that a general buy and sell section would be a nice idea but then this is an international forum so I am not so sure how much traction / interest it would gain.
Just checked and the Dutch and Spanish forums still have buy and sell sections but it seems that they do not see that many offers:
@dolbyman The German legal system is infamous for harassing people in ways that every sane country in the world will find ridiculous so I am not surprised they shut down that buy and sell section in the German forum.
The English forum here is also visited by more than a local audience, Italian,Belgian or German forums have normally a very geographically concentrated user base.
The English section here is visited by all sorts of native and non native speaking countries … I still think that a marketplace has no …place here.
