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chrisdenton

chrisdenton

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After spending all morning scouring the country for a gearbox oil cooler (without success), it got me thinking that if we had a central database of who's got what and where it may make life a little easier and cheaper when trying to source that elusive part.

Even in my relatively short time as a Porsche owner I have accumulated a smallish stock of spares which according to the law of sod I will never use as the bit that breaks wont be something I have a spare for. If however we have a central database of what everybody has and is prepared to part with (for a reasonable fee of course) it may just make life a little easier. It may also turn some of your unwanted bits into cash.

If anyone thinks this could be worth wile I'm happy to collate all the info and publish on a web page or could we put up on the forum somehow?

Over to you guys...
 
While I agree Andrew's suggestion is the right way to do it, that comes from enterprise IT thinking and I doubt it's realistic for this application.[FONT=verdana,geneva"] [FONT=verdana,geneva"]What about a sticky thread on here where anyone with parts can make one post and edit it to reflect the changing stock? Perhaps the mods would be good enough to tidy it up if anyone posts off-topic?[FONT=verdana,geneva"]
 
ORIGINAL: Fen

While I agree Andrew's suggestion is the right way to do it, that comes from enterprise IT thinking and I doubt it's realistic for this application.[FONT=verdana,geneva"] [FONT=verdana,geneva"]What about a sticky thread on here where anyone with parts can make one post and edit it to reflect the changing stock? Perhaps the mods would be good enough to tidy it up if anyone posts off-topic?[FONT=verdana,geneva"]
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I'm with Fen on that.

Great idea all round.
 
I think it's a great idea whether it's done as Fen suggests or as per Chris' original idea.
Not sure we have the technical expertise to do as Andrew suggests!
It's a pain looking through 3 million things on Ebay trying to find that elusive part in amongst a load of junk.
 
Great idea [:)]

It reminded me of a thread I was going to start a while ago where I bet we could nearly build a whole 944 if we just pooled all the spared bits that we have stashed around the place.

Once we found someone with an actual bodyshell, I bet that between us we have everything else [8|]
 
Is there still a bug in the forum software around deleting posts? If so we need people to edit items to sold rather than delete them.

Edited by Paul: Nope works fine for me [:)]
 
OK, hopefully it's fixed, but didn't it used to cause the next post in line to disappear? That was a long time ago mind and I'd expect it to be something the software vendor would address in the next update so I expect all is well now.
 
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