PIF thread?

[crouton976]

Just curious if there was an official PIF thread still active. I searched and found an old one from 2005, but nothing recent (just a post from Lynn last year about keeping PIF momentum going).

If there's not, would there be a problem in starting one, and should it be in the classifieds or in another section of the forum?

My thoughts on the rules would be thus:

1. Strictly posting items you wanted to give away. No give something to get something, no asking for things, just a central and easily visible place for members to pass things along to help others out.

2. Whatever is posted has to be tangible items i.e. no honing/restoring/repair offers, only physical items up for offer.

3. Shipping costs to be covered by the one offering the items... if you're going to PIF, than PIF all the way. Besides, shipping is cheap. The only exception to this would be international shipping, and that would be at the discretion of the person offering the items.

4. A separate thread could be started for requests/needed items, and members could PM the asker to work out the details.

5. The first one to respond to the post gets the items to keep it fair, and after the initial "I'll take that" post, all details would be handled through PM to avoid personal info being leaked (not that I think there are a bunch of scallawags here).


If there's an official stance on not having a central thread doing this, I apologize in advance. Like I said I did try searching, but couldn't find anything relevant.

Thanks!