It's not that.
I had a deal working, marked it SPF, got the funds, shipped the item, and some mod deleted it which is waaaaay off from what any other similar board would do.
I typically tell buyers that I won't mark it sold until they receive the item. That way they get a chance to compare the item received against my crappy pictures. Nope-deleted ad, and no chance for the buyer to easily compare pics vs the item.
That reminds me of the handicapped guy who called in to Handel on the Law
to ask for advice on how to stop handicapped visitors from parking in
his numbered assigned parking space at his apartment house.
The parking space that he paid rent for.
The parking space that was closest to the door, because he was handicapped.
The parking space that he had the landlord mark as "handicapped".
None of the brain trust on the entire radio show could figure out that
if he didn't want handicapped people trespassing on his private parking space,
he shouldn't virtue signal by festooning it with blue and white wheelchair symbols.
It's like hanging a pork chop from a tree in the back yard
as the counterweight on a
Redneck Weather Rope,
and then bitching when your dog eats it.
If one wants to tell potential buyers that there's a deal pending,
but one doesn't want the moderators to delete your posting,
then maybe don't festoon one's post with a magical symbol
that the moderators interpret as "DELETE ME".
Write the English sentence,
"This deal has a sale pending - don't contact me".
If the moderators have a batch job grepping for that,
change it to Yodaese: "Upcoming on this deal a sale there is - contact me not".
If they spot that, change it to Church Latin or something.
I assume they're nuking SPF posts because they're fed up with
thoughtless sellers who clog the forums with dead deals.
And they must be
really fed up to do that.
Storage keeps getting cheaper per bit,
so at some point that clean-up must be
to keep the NES user experience baby-fresh.
If you go back and scrupulously delete your posts when they're done,
maybe they'll respect your operating sellerness.
Unless they don't.
(Watch me catch discipline for inciting mutiny.
I'm sure I can't imagine the hair-tearing web cloggage that caused the mods
to waste time deleting obsolete posts.
But there oughta be an exception for a man of wealth and taste like
@AFAR/PFAR,
who cares enough to clean up his own posts in the end
).
Sooo....that list proves my point exactly. Thank you!
Nothing of value was exchanged. Per your list, its not a deal.
Clue: A contract is an
agreement between parties to exchange things of value,
like guns and money.
This isn't about contract law Beatrice.
No; this is about contracts whose parties virtually never try to enforce them.
Because it's almost never all that big of a deal.
If you agree to sell a guy Teddy Roosevelt's elephant gun,
and then back out of the deal because you got a better offer,
don't assume he can't
get a court to force you to sell it.
Ironically, in a case like that, there may be
less legal risk
from suing the seller for the gun. Because leaving negative reps
(or ripping them a new orifice in a thread) is grist for
an annoyance suit about "muh reputation".
(Too late
).
You know how this works -
it depends on whether she gives off white or black smoke.