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I think the topic title is self explanatory... I started it after receiving lots of complaints from fellow members that they are being asked money for simple programming needs.... I myself am seeing lots and lots of buy sell things only... healthy discussions are really taking a back seat... sharing is getting redundant day after day... am relying on foreign forums for most knowledge... Your Comments and Poll is highly requested....

I feel forum need both, But asking 3K for programing is like cheating. 95% time i don't charge any one for programing, you can ask rimweb users for the same. 5% peoples who cannot follow the guides given by me. I always give them info free then if they are not able to follow then depending of help require i may charge or may not. Most of the time I also charge some people but most of them are seller or total newB, Also I charge only Rs500 or Rs 1000 Rs 500 are for my time given to them explaining the each and every details so next time they can do it by them self. Also if some one says i am doing wrong, they have to answer following questions 1) why should i spend 3-4 hours for programing and explaining all the steps ? 2) When I spend 3-4 hrs for programing, How can I support my family ? in that 4 hr i can do some other work and earn money. 2) I have to use telephone & internet for these works, who will pay my bills ? 2) Except DK and Muffi who helped me when i was in problem ? 3) After helping so many members, how many came back and said thanks ? 4) ones work is done from next day only few people keep in touch, that too for help only. 5) Even after being one of top poster with good repo(around 200 thanks), i dont have access to TE 6) So my knowledge is not given by Rimweb. About Buy Sell:- 1) what is the use of the forum without having a imported cdma handsets ? 2) If you say I am earning from forum, YES i am earning, but @ what ratio ? 3) My rates are lowest on the forum so its like helping rimweb users by giving them handsets are affordable rates. 4) Healthy discussion about what ? should we discuss only about the rates provided by carriers ? and topic like these :- "my caller tone got activated what should i do? (i am gona die now) " Or Be a vegge like topic ?....LOLz 5) Still there are seller who only do selling put a restriction on them, even after putting a new rules they are not followed by some seller ? why ? But DK's point is valid, But I have little different view Some users are charging which is very high. they should charge for their time and net, not for the knowledge which gain from rimweb.

well a similar topic was raised by kshah in past and we all put our feedbacks in it well , been a geek myself , sometimes its very irritating to see , people not sharing their stuff on forum readily / unknowingly/ unintentionally/ intentionally , whatever be the reason A forum is a place to discuss , bring in new ideas , thoughts and then doing experimentation with those things to arrive to a solution. But most people just come read , ask for help , get things done and vanish from forum , until the next problem they are faced with , i dont blame them as everyone cant be same . I agree with kshah and sumit that in some cases u have to charge for the help u provide for betterment of community itself You cant expect everyone to put in 2-3 hrs of their time for free. sometimes member ask for spoon feeding type programming i dont think charging for programming is bad thing , but then charges shouldnt be exorbitant. Help should be provided for free for trsuted /advanced users look at my BB free unlock codes thread for instance This aint a free service , i have paid for an account which gives me free unlock codes but i am providing it free to people who have helped or contributed to community is some way As far as buy and sell goes , its bread and butter for some users there will be buyng and selling on forum but the only problem that arises with it is since money and competition is involved in any business , a businessman wudnt like to share his business secrets , and thats what we see here the sellers dont wanna share any programming solutions with a fear that the other seller might rip him off and this is where the loop starts again But i feel atleast tips/tricks be shared with advanced users , so that the community can benefit Commercialisation is bound to occur on rimweb , coz demand of imported sets is high here and many people dont wanna buy from usa directly with a fear they might have problems , so they want someone in india to sell them already programmed and this is where people are trying to make money its a demand and supply relationship only thing i mind is that the flow of knwoledge / information / hacks shouldnt stop from one member to another be it a seller or noob or techie , neither shud it be kept just for ones own benefit Share information and support community Infact i feel that arun should start some sort of donations to the forum , so that money raised can be put back in betterment of community itself , this will take care of leeching also .

I have learnt a lot from the rimweb techies and I find almost every techy very helpful and some are superfast in replying-Dr.Muffadal & Dhiraj kaile

^^^ Lets put our thoughts and forget about pointing fingers Solution and Buy sell (commercial) goes hand and hand अरे सेट नही होगा तो क्या सल्यूशन का आचार डालेंगे if some one charged its fine, look at benefits not otherwise, Hitesh Chill yyar chal have ठंडी लस्सी BTW temperature in Raipur reached 47 yesterday

I agree with you. I raised same topic in past and our Admin took necessary action. Though we do not like commercialization of Rimweb, the fact is in CDMA one can not buy any thing from market as hardly any thing available. So RImweb being exclusive and oldest CDMA discussion forum for India, commercialization will bring in new people who may share something someday. Also one fact is we Indians are too misers and we do not share any damn thing. Not even knowledge or information. We see money every where and that is the reason we remain poor. If some one is charging money for solution which he spent money for or he took risk for, I think its worth paying and its justified. For example, I was the one who converted my PPC 6700 first to RUIM. I took risk and I exchanged my information with one free PPC 6700. I also assured buyer of my solution that I will not disclose it to any one who has commercial interest but certainly share with people who would be DIY sort of guys. That arrangement worked.