TreadleOn
The TreadleOn Flea Market is open to TreadleOn subscribers. It is free; there is no fee or commission.
As a convenience for our members, and visible to mailing list subscribers only, there are For Sale and Wanted lists. These must be for sewing- and quilting-related items, especially treadle and hand-crank sewing machines, attachments and tools. Not too many electric sewing machines, please, although those aren't banned.
All For Sale items should be given a definite price.
Give your contact details. This can be a link to your web site, a
mailto: link followed by your email address, or a link
to your profile page in Groups.io. A profile page link looks like
https://groups.io/g/Treadleon/profile/@username.
Give your approximate location. This is an international list, and shipping is a critical factor for bulky, fragile treadle bases, for delicate bentwood covers, and for brittle and heavy cast-iron sewing machine heads.
You may add items to the For Sale or Wanted list any time (we used to limit sales to Saturdays, but no longer need to do that). You may send one, but only one, message to the mailing list when you add any items.
Reply directly to the person posting the Flea Market item, not, please, to the whole list. "Hi Ethel, I'd love that. Please phone me on..." is not a message anyone wanted to send to the other 1500 or so subscribers.
Do not list services or other intangibles. Do not list items that are for sale elsewhere, such as online auctions.
Don't send messages to the main mailing list with items for sale and wanted, unless you have put them into the appropriate Flea Market database as well.
At present, you can't include any picture directly in the listing. Instead, make a photo album using any online picture-sharing service, and add a link to that album. Or, if more appropriate, a single photo and use a link to that.
TreadleOn accepts no liability for problems with these ads or transactions. The ads are there to put members in touch with each other, and what happens after the initial contact is your own responsibility. If we receive complaints about listings, we may delete them. Deliberate abuse of the Flea Market may result in an immediate ban from TreadleOn. Let's hope that never happens.
If you have an unsatisfactory experience with a Flea Market transaction, please communicate first directly with the seller. If that does not help, then please let the TreadleOn list owners know.
Here's a link to the For Sale list. You may need to log in to see it or add your own item.
This is a direct link to the Wanted list. You may need to log in to see this, too.