[Arran]

While I agree with you, as the owner of this website and Phorum I also have to walk a fine line between enforcing rules and ticking people off. Make someone mad, they go over to the other forum, you never hear from them again. So I just depend on folks to be honest and to post when their item sells. Sale and wanted ads are pulled after 30 days here anyway, I see no need in archiving them forever as they do at ARF. To me, archiving all ads is a big waste of bandwidth and hard drive space.

That's not to bad if the ads are pulled after 30 days, but there aren't really that many ads to sort through most of the time. Craigslist has an expiry time too but given the quantity of postings it still becomes annoying. There was a G.E console for sale in my area, the ad was put up on the 19th of June, I asked if it was still for sale and the lady said it was, two days later she said her daughter had had taken it away while she was away that weekend. In any event the ad is still up there, I don't know why because it really isn't that hard to remove them, how lazy can you get? In any event I can't see the point in archiving buy and sell ads, as you say it's a total waste of hard drive space and for what?
Regards
Arran