Well, I have only been here for about 8-years, and 11,600 posts.... I still contend that they should require maintenance, if just flagged as "inactive", after a period of time, so you can filter out those results. I know of no other online classified system that allows an ad to simply remain up, essentially forever. I have never found an old ad where the part was still for sale. They all have been sold already.
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I'm the opposite, I have had multiple successes. In fact, I just scored a part for a build, this week that hadn't been bumped in a long while. It's easy enough to mark it sold, in my opinion. But, full disclosure, I've forgotten in the past.
It's also easy enough to click "renew" when you get an alert that your ad is about to go inactive, or expire. Doing market research, as some have mentioned, via old ads, only tells you the price of what likely did not sell, not what a part is worth.
I never mark my sold items sold. Then when someone hopefully messages me about the part in question I just shift the conversation to something else. Im a lonely person. So painfully lonely....... Just kidding yeah that drives me crazy too.
I can agree..I'm only days into being on the H.A.M.B. And I've already contacted someone about an old post to buy parts and they sold them months before. I'm sure there are some low demand items that stay posted for long periods of time but there should be follow up after 30 days or something.
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