[Ron Ramirez]

Personally I think that there should be a rule on such forums that if you post something for sale, and it sells, you should announce that it's gone and remove the ad, or get a reprimand of some sort.

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. Chances are that Fliminjammer XT-800 35-tube radio posted for sale in 1996 is no longer available.