No one likes AIM?

[protegeV]

I know, I know. This thread appears to have nothing to do with the category I posted it in, but trust me, it does.

My point is, I don't see hardly anyone with an AIM s/n listed on here. I don't know whether it's because no one uses it or because no one wants to be IMed from a board member. Personally I think it would be a LOT LOT LOT easier to work out a trade by IM rather than going back and fortha nd back and forth with PMs. Well, I guess if someone really wanted to iron out a hard trade they could PM the other person asking for thei AIM s/n...
guess I just answered my own question, huh?
Thoughts???

[vikingfan101]

I dont think that its the lack of people liking aim, its just the lack of people willingly allowing people to see there aim name. For example, I used to have my name listed so people could see. But I would get random people on aim messaging me using vulgarity or just screwing around, so I took it off.

[jjj5278]

Online Bots can search for that stuff and then just send spam. I took my AIM off of other sites after I got so many PMs for the newest XXX site every 5mins. I'm not even sure if I still have AIM to be honest w/ you, lol.

[mikesilvia]

AOL turned me off to AIM many years ago. AIM was very intrusive and caused problems with Yahoo IM and MSN. It was impossible to have both. This was a big problem many years ago so I unistalled AIM and will never use it again. First impressions are everything and they made a bad impression with their first AIM.

[protegeV]

hmm, I dont get ANY spam on AIM, but I see what you guys are saying.

[pr0phet]

AOL turned me off to AIM many years ago. AIM was very intrusive and caused problems with Yahoo IM and MSN. It was impossible to have both. This was a big problem many years ago so I unistalled AIM and will never use it again. First impressions are everything and they made a bad impression with their first AIM.

There is a killer program for that one Mike, its called trillion. Allows you to have AIM/MSN/Yahoo/ICQ all in one program. I have AIM and msn along with Yahoo. I think the only one listed is Yahoo because that way I know where the strangers might be chatting with me from. If I post my AIM name I expect messages to come from people I have spoken with previously.

It is also encouraged that if you do work a trade on instant messenger, you still post it on SCF. IM chat logs are NOT valid trade agreements, the staff will NOT handle disputes from IM trade agreements.

Thanks
Jay

[LWbaseball07]

Yeah, I bet just about every person on scf has aim, just don't have there sn in profile..that's how 80% of trades are mostly done.

[protegeV]

There is a killer program for that one Mike, its called trillion. Allows you to have AIM/MSN/Yahoo/ICQ all in one program. I have AIM and msn along with Yahoo. I think the only one listed is Yahoo because that way I know where the strangers might be chatting with me from. If I post my AIM name I expect messages to come from people I have spoken with previously.

It is also encouraged that if you do work a trade on instant messenger, you still post it on SCF. IM chat logs are NOT valid trade agreements, the staff will NOT handle disputes from IM trade agreements.

Thanks
Jay

obviously you arent gonna finalize a trade on AIM. You post it up and both parties confirm...But IMing makes it a LOT easier to work out details BEFORE you post the final trade.

[Steven]

can any1 give me a link where i can download AIM....and will it screw with my Yahoo? I dont want that.

[SingleDaddyof2]

can any1 give me a link where i can download AIM....and will it screw with my Yahoo? I dont want that.

Trillian (as pr0phet suggested above) is the way to go. Its like 5 chat programs in one. According to the Trillian website, "Trillian™ is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC." Thats what I'll be using.