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**Mal H** · November 28, 2007, 08:37 PM

We understand your frustration with non-responsive sellers (and buyers). However, the for-sale forums are not a major feature of TFL even though they are very active. They exist only for the convenience of our members. The moderators do not actively monitor the threads in those forums, so any offer to buy or sell that doesn't receive a reply is almost never seen nor acted on by the moderators.

I kinda like the M1911.org system IZinterrogator described. However, again, that would take monitoring of at least the thread timestamps. Even that isn't done currently. We have tended to keep the old for-sale threads around for archival and reference purposes. Maybe that policy should be revisited since those purposes never really seem to come into play that I am aware of.

November 28, 2007, 08:37 PM	#4
Mal H Staff Join Date: March 20, 1999 Location: Somewhere in the woods of Northern Virginia Posts: 16,955	We understand your frustration with non-responsive sellers (and buyers). However, the for-sale forums are not a major feature of TFL even though they are very active. They exist only for the convenience of our members. The moderators do not actively monitor the threads in those forums, so any offer to buy or sell that doesn't receive a reply is almost never seen nor acted on by the moderators. I kinda like the M1911.org system IZinterrogator described. However, again, that would take monitoring of at least the thread timestamps. Even that isn't done currently. We have tended to keep the old for-sale threads around for archival and reference purposes. Maybe that policy should be revisited since those purposes never really seem to come into play that I am aware of.