And the sneaky ones who edit daily instead of a bump and having the ad show one post instead of many giving the illusion that the the ad is new and has not been passed over for weeks on in.
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I believe the landscape of this place has changed so much from specific and non-specific interspersed discussion to a giant classified section, that's the only way to gain an advantage to sell your goods.
When I log in to see if any juicy topics of discussion are happening, but only see the last 3-4 pages are nothing but classified ads to sell something, it is obvious to me why they do it.
I actually believe that sellers could sell more if there were more topics of discussion going on throughout the day. I know that I bought plenty of things that caught my eye when I was bouncing back from one discussion to another. Those were basically impulse buys. I suppose if I needed something particular that was gun related, I could look. But the search function still doesn't work accurately enough to look for specific keywords.
I beg to differ on the search...
I have an NAA firearm in the Classifieds... if I search for North American Arms, it shows... if I search for NAA, it doesn't (because I don't mention "NAA" anywhere in the post. The search engine of these bulletin boards simply searches the database for matching groups of letters... it's not a mind-reader.