Welcome to the Trinituner.com forums. In order to keep things running smoothly, we ask all members to take note of the following:

* This is a private forum and membership is at the absolute discretion of the Forum Owner / Administrators.

* Users are permitted to register one username only. We DO NOT allow multiple accounts per user. If we find that you are using more than one account, we will ban BOTH or ALL your accounts.
* By registering and posting, users agree to ALL our forum rules and regulations.
* Freedom of speech is a fallacy.
* Posts that are rude, offensive, insulting, or slanderous are forbidden and will be deleted without notice.
* Commercial or business complaints are not allowed. If you have a problem with a company please send it to the Consumer Affairs Division or the T&T Bureau of Standards.
* Posts that are clearly offensive politically, racially, sexually or otherwise will be deleted with no notification to the original poster.
* Please do not make reposts or post questions on topics that have already been answered. Please use the Search feature first to see if there are any topics related to your question before posting.
* Please only make topics that are relevant to the forum you are posting in - irrelevant topics will be moved to their relevant forum room or will be deleted if another topic already exists without warning.
* Please keep all your off topic posts all in one thread (e.g Rants, Jokes, announcements) - Many single threads with single topics from the same user posted very soon after the other will be deleted.
* If a member continues to post these types of posts, their membership will be canceled.
* If you are moderated and you wish to discuss it, PM the moderators or the administrator.
* If you have concerns with a post made in the forum, PM the moderators or the administrator or use the Report Post button .
* Stirring trouble in the forums will result in a canceled membership in this, & affiliated forums.
* No calling people out. eg starting a thread to ask something of someone, you have Private Messaging for that.
* Forum Owner / Administrator reserves the right to modify forum rules as and when deemed necessary. Such rules will be binding for all members.

DISCLAIMER: All communications made available as part of this forum and any opinions, advice, statements, views or other information expressed in this forum are solely provided by, and the responsibility of, the person posting such communication and not that of Trinituner.com, TriniTuner Co. Ltd, its Directors, Administrators and Moderators

Avatars, signatures and locations
As long as it is appropriate, you can use any image you want for your avatar. Keep in mind that your avatar can be no larger than 15 KB in size or 100x100 pixels in dimension.

Please be advised that due to users placing large images, advertising and extensive text as their signatures and so creating excessive load on the servers, we have had to reduce allowed signature sizes.

For all those wishing to attach sigs to their post, please be aware of the following:

1. Signatures MUST be auto related. NO pics containing any nude or suggestive content in any shape, way or form posing (even if it's on or near a car) will be allowed and will be immediately deleted WITHOUT notice.

2. Signature text can be no longer than 160 characters. Thats the same lenght as a SMS text message, which is more than sufficient for a signature. Text must be small (no larger than size 12 in bbcode or 3 in HTML).

3. Image size has been reduced to 350x19 pixels. That is the same size of a userbar image. There are many sites that can help you to create your own userbar to use in your signature file. Only one image is allowed but it can be animated and under 50K.

4. Absolutely no commercial advertising/announcements will be allowed in signature files, text or images without powerseller status. External website URLS are NOT allowed without powerseller status. Please use the www button for posting your website address in your profile. It will show at the footer of each of your posts.

5. Absolutely no animated advertising will be allowed in signature files or avatars. Advertising (even for powersellers) is for the classified forums only. When you place animated ads in your signature or avatar you overtly promote your sales when you post in technical and lounge forums where direct sales and advertising are not allowed. Therefore this will not be allowed. If you wish to paste a signature at the end of each of your FS posts in the classifieds with an animated ad then that would be fine. But animated signatures in Tech and Lounge forums will not be tolerated.

6. Users may place a single link to an ad for an item they have for sale in the trinituner classifieds ONLY.

7. PowerSellers nor users are not allowed to advertise in their signatures and CANNOT link or refer to an external site in their signature. No image ads in signatures.

8. Political, Religious or opinionated topics are for the "ole talk and more ole talk" or dedicated Political forum only and will not be allowed in signatures, avatars or locations since these items are seen in all forums and is not the kind of content we want in technical forums being broadcasted to all users.

9. We have noticed a growing trend in suggesting users contact other users on the forum as a prank. This is not allowed.

BAITING USERS IS AGAINST OUR FORUMS RULES AND WILL NOT BE ALLOWED.

PLAYING PRANKS ON OTHER USERS IS AGAINST OUR FORUMS RULES AND WILL NOT BE ALLOWED.

It is against the forum rules to reply or start a thread suggesting that someone sends a PM or any contact to another user knowing very well that the other user cannot help them.

Users have been doing this as a prank. Doing so will get you banned.

e.g. User1 asks a question and you reply with "PM user3, he can help you" knowing very well that you are just playing a prank on user3 and user1 who asked the question since you know user3 cannot help, but you hope user1 spams user3 in the process.

Regardless of the motive, any user found doing this will be instantly banned for a week. They will be permanently banned for their second offense. Once the suggestion to contact a user is not genuine your account will be banned.

Please act accordingly.

10. Any avatars or signatures deemed inappropriate due to content or size WILL be deleted immediately and without notice.

BUMPS

1. Bumping multiple threads (more than 2; 4 for powersellers) in a forum will be considered spamming and the offender's account will be suspended.

2. Users can bump another user's/powerseller's thread only ONCE. Users found bumping another user's thread more than once will be banned. If a user/powerseller wants you to bump their thread for them, then let them give you their log-in. Simple.

In light of this if a powerseller wants his "employees" to bump their threads for them then they MUST let the employee log in with the powerseller account. No exceptions.

This makes it fair and equal for everyone.

3. We currently have no absolute method of limiting bumps per day. In light of this and at this time there is no real limit to the amount of times you can bump your own FS or WTB thread in the classifieds. However discretion is advised when bumping. We suggest no more than 2 bumps per day. Any more and you will risk looking desperate and would aggravate other users who could very well be your potential customers.

DO NOT MAKE ALTERNATE ACCOUNTS

Please only use one account. Making more than one account is against our terms of service and the second account will be banned permanently. if you continue to create alternate accounts then ALL your accounts will be banned permanently. If you are having problems logging in, please use the "forgot password" link on the login screen or if send an email to info@trinituner.com from the email address that you registered with and an administrator will fix your account for you. The same goes if you want to change your username. DO NOT make another account under any circumstances.


Uploading Images

Uploading is only for images that are on your hard drive.
For large images, see
below.

For classified ads, you can upload images from your hard drive at this address:

http://forums.trinituner.com/upload/
Images kept here will be stored for up to 30 days.

For uploading pics for Technical write-ups, you can upload images here:
http://forums.trinituner.com/tech/
Large images will automatically be resized to a width of 550 pixels to make downloading quicker for dial-up users.

(Do NOT store images for classified ads here. They will be deleted immediately!)

If an image is on the net then you dont need to upload it in order to post in your message

all you have to do is place the address for the image between img tags and it will show up in your post.

Instructions

To get the address for an image on a website, right click on the image you want to post and click properties a dialogue box will pop up and the address for the image alone will be shown where it says "Address (URL)"

select and copy the entire address from http:// to .jpg or .gif
now return to your post and paste the address you just copied between these tags and when you submit your message the image will show be sure that the address you paste is for an image and not a page.

This goes for signature images as well

Alternatively,

large images

You can upload your images HERE:
http://imageshack.us/index3.php

ImageShack is a free image hosting solution. It can be used to share pictures with friends, post images on message boards. It can also be used to direct link images from your personal website or eBay auction. And best of all, it's completely free.


Just follow the simple instructions on the site. They allow for the upload of .gif, and .jpg with a maximum size of 600KB.
pics are available for up to 1 year .

OR Here: http://www.putfile.com/

Also a free site to host your vids of up to 1GB http://www.yousendit.com

Image Resizer

This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.

ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe


After installation, Right click on a picture that's saved on your computer
click resize picture a menu pops up select the size you want that should do it, it's how funny microsoft doesn't give directions for it.


Classifieds
Only YOUR personal items may be sold in these forums. Commercial or for-profit sales are strictly prohibited without prior consent or applying for Power Seller status, and will be promptly deleted with no notice to the poster. When posting items for sale, pls. ensure that a "FS" (For Sale) or "WTB" (Wanted to buy) is put in front of the message title. "EOI" (Expression Of Interest) may also be used to gauge interest in a particular item.

IMPORTANT: In fairness, users are asked to post no more than 2 simultaneous FS posts in any one classified forum. Powersellers are asked to post no more than 4 simultaneous FS posts in any one classified forum. This will help maintain the variety of items and sellers which will keep visitors returning to our forums thereby improving your own sales.

Powerseller payments are non-refundable due to the nature of the program.

DISCLAIMER: Trinituner.com, TriniTuner Co. Ltd, its Directors, Administrators and Moderators (We) are NOT responsible for transactions conducted between users via our forums. The responsibility of conducting fair trade lies SOLELY between the buyer and the seller. We will not accept liability for deals gone bad. Nor be responsible for taking action to correct such.

e.g. You cannot blame the telephone company if you agree to buy a car over the phone and the deal goes bad.

There has been an enormous increase in the number of cell phones being sold in the forums, often times undercutting legitimate powersellers and sponsor/supporters of the Trinituner.com site. The PowerSeller system is our way of ensuring that we can continue to provide an audience and an outlet to those hoping to build their business.

Some may find it unfair, but it's a necessity in order to prolong and improve the site.

Personal one-off sales will always be free to those wishing to get rid of items they no longer need. When it becomes obvious that sales are being done for-profit or as a trading post, things must be put in place to protect our Power Sellers.

Multiple, similar items by the same user will be deleted without notice. Any sellers' items reasonably deemed to be commercial will also be deleted with no notice given.

NO user will be permitted to post items for sale "for a friend". It is free to register on trinituner. Let your friend register and post the items for themselves.

Similarly Powersellers CANNOT post items for other users. Your Powerseller account is for YOU and YOUR business ONLY. We DO NOT allow powersellers to sublet out their status and facility.

A powerseller cannot use their powerseller status to advertise a service for another entity and make the user contact that other entity directly unless that other entity has powerseller status. If Powersellers wish for users to contact their employees on the forum directly then their employees must have powerseller status too.

It is against our forum rules to state for example "don't call or PM me directly, please call John Doe at 555-4434". Technically that is advertising for someone else.

Please keep in mind we DO NOT allow multiple accounts per user. If we find that you are using more than one account, we will ban BOTH accounts.

Powerseller status allows you to post commercially in the classified forums ONLY.

You cannot start a commercial thread or post ads in any other forum other than the classifieds; you cannot post your ad in the Ole Talk forum. You CAN reply to a thread/post by another user in the Ole Talk forum with information about your products or services only if it is relevant, however you cannot bump such a thread that you have already posted commercially in.

You MUST post ONLY in the classified forum that is RELEVANT to the product or service you are advertising. You cannot post a car part in the Miscellaneous Bargain Center nor can you post a TV in the Cars & Auto Parts forum. If your product can also be used in a car e.g. an orthopedic seat backrest, you need to decide whether you want to market it as a car part OR as a Miscellaneous item - it CANNOT be both. Similarly, an MP3 player can either be Car Audio or Miscellaneous but it CANNOT be both - etc etc.

IMPORTANT NOTICE!
Power Sellers contribute to the running costs of the site. Non-PowerSeller users suspected of selling commercially will be warned via PM by a moderator or administrator and will have their posts deleted. Disregarding the warning and reposting or creating new posts with items for sale will result in your account being immediately disabled. Your ability to send PMs may also be disabled if it is suspected that you are doing business via PM.

In the interest of full disclosure, please note that the administrators of this board may use alternate accounts for the investigation of these sales.

If you wish to discuss this policy, please PM one of the administrators or moderators of the site.

We are no more than a facilitator of an online communications medium and are in no way bound to the sale or agreements made herein.

Please use your discretion when conducting any business transaction.

Powerseller payments are made through any branch of ScotiaBank and are non-refundable.

As a powerseller you can still be banned if you fail to comply with our rules.

Posts not directly related to the item being sold/bought will be deleted without notice.

Posts advertising, selling or giving away pirated or stolen items WILL be deleted.

WE WILL NOT ALLOW NOR TOLERATE ILLEGAL ACTIVITY OR THE SALE OF ILLEGAL ITEMS AND/OR ITEMS REQUIRING SPECIAL OWNERSHIP/USE LICENSES SUCH AS FIREARMS ETC. ON THIS WEBSITE - POWERSELLER OR NOT.

We do not allow the transactions of, the sale of nor the request to buy dangerous weapons such as tasers, stun guns etc., pepper spray, mace etc., bb guns, pellet guns, paint ball guns/markers etc., ammunition, CO2 canisters, compressed air etc., etc. on these forums or classifieds. Powerseller or not.

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Lowballing will not be tolerated in the "For Sale" forums whether it is Power Seller posted or not.

If you do not agree with the price on an item you are welcome to make a reasonable offer via PM to the original poster. You are not permitted to post lowball offers in the For Sale thread.

This includes derogatory comments about the price or comments in vendor threads that you can get it here or there for X price.

Failure to comply with these rules will result in a temporary ban.
Repeat offenders will lose their privilege to post in all for sale sections.


Also please note that it is not acceptable to highjack a for sale thread with your own items for sale. It is acceptable to post if the Original Poster's item is sold and you want to offer the other posters the same item for sale.

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The Classifieds forums are not to be used as a form of free advertising for any business or other profit making enitity.

If you would like to advertise your business and/or products, please click the link below and see how easy and affordable it is to advertise on TriniTuner.com.
http://www.trinituner.com/advertise/

Power Seller
If you run a small, at-home business you may be interested in our Power Seller package which allows small resellers to post "For Sale" posts in our Classified Ads forums.
Powerseller payments are made through any branch of ScotiaBank.
Click here for more info
For more details on rules please see "Classifieds" section above.

Job Vacancies
Depending on the situation involved we sometimes allow users to post asking for job vacancies so they can get help. However we DO NOT allow companies to post vacancies on our forums.

The difference is that we dont mind helping an individual user, a fellow 'tuner who may have inadvertantly gotten into a bind and may need a job to support themselves. However a company posting a vacancy would have to pay the newspaper, radio or TV to post that vacancy for them. Reason being the company hires an employee who gets paid to do the job, the company makes profit off of the job done and both parties are happy while we get a nice big thanks, over and over and over again. It costs us to keep the site running.

To find out more about advertising on our website click here
http://www.trinituner.com/advertise/index.php

Reporting a post
To report a post that is offensive or against forum rules, simply click the report post button of the specific post. Be sure to write a through reason for reporting the post and include any necessary information.
Reported posts are dealt with in que, if there are many reported posts it may take a while for all the mods to go through all the posts.
It is to the mods discretion to respond to a report. if the mod feels it is not a serious infraction that would require action then the report can be ignored. Users who continuously make false reports and waste moderator's time will be banned. We do however appreciate all valid reports as it helps to keep the forum clean of spam.

Guidleines For Posting
In order to ensure that the forums remain useful and accessible to everyone, we ask that you follow these simple rules:


1. Please pay attention to the topic of your messages, and check that you are posting it in the appropriate section. Create a concise subject that adequately summarizes your topic. For example, say "Problem with R32 brake conversion", rather than "Help!" or “WTKâ€