marketplace on list

[Brett Dikeman]

At 9:09 PM -0500 1/30/02, TM wrote:
>While I can see the purpose of the marketplace sort of
>undermined by posting for sale ads on the list, I don't
>think it's a disservice to post heads-up on cars that
>are not for sale on the marketplace, esp. interesting and/or
>rare cars, like V8 5-speeds, '91 200q, UrS and UrQs.
>
>Is it bad to offer help in checking out a car that's local?
>I don't really mind spending a bit of time looking at cars
>I like, thought it may precipitate the chance that these
>rare cars are looked after by true enthusiasts rather than your
>average owner.

I personally side with Taka on the above two points; he's pretty much
on the money.  Long as the subject line is clear about where the car
is, yeah, sometimes it's pretty nice to hear about a rare car that's
popped up in the local Postagesizeville Newspaper etc...

...unless you're in Postagesizeville(or nearby) and had a pretty
sweet thing going convincing the little old lady that "really old
owdie thing"(1985 UrQ) in the garage with a few thou miles on it
wasn't worth more than a "few hundred bux."  In which case, you'd
probably madder than hell that some goodie-two-shoes called, found
out what it was and posted it to the list with the subject "SUPER
CHEAP RARE URQ FOR SALE IN POSTAGESIZEVILLE!" ;-)

My personal peeve is when someone says "A4 automatic v6, all options,
in the local paper!" or similar, AND there's no subject.  Yeah, along
with 2 dozen others :-)

B
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