Why do people delete their For Sale posts?

[RichenFamous]

Curiosity has gotten the best of me, so I’ll pose the question here. Why do some folks on this forum delete their Parts for Sale posts? This unfortunately includes the Cars for Sale posts/ads. For historical purposes and especially market value for parts and our cars, I just don’t understand the deletion of post content and filling in NT (guessing NT is a field placeholder meaning No Text). 
Deleted comments are one thing, but to delete all one’s posts from the ad seems a bit off and not in the spirit of transparent nature of this fine forum. I am in need of a different perspective. 
Cheers,

Rich

 

[2002iii]

Unfortunately like everything else in life there's always a few rotten apples. I find it better to ignore them then try to understand their ways.

[02tradition]

Because stupid people still ask you YEARS later “is this still for sale?” even when marked sold. And its annoying. 

I delete mine to avoid this. 

[RichenFamous]

3 hours ago, 2002iii said:

Unfortunately like everything else in life there's always a few rotten apples. I find it better to ignore them then try to understand their ways.

Beautifully zen. I definitely need to practice this practice!

[RichenFamous]

11 minutes ago, 02tradition said:

Because stupid people still ask you YEARS later “is this still for sale?” even when marked sold. And its annoying. 

I delete mine to avoid this. 

I can understand this. I usually laugh at those post resurrectionists. 

[E21kc]

I think keeping the for sale post active gives people who are looking for cars or parts and fair idea what the current market is like. But I do understand why they get deleted. 

[resra]

I think every key stroke you type, for sale, comments, phone numbers, addresses, whatever etc. etc etc all by some entity or form is being tracked. No i'm not being paranoid. This is the new reality to create a.i 

It's a race to collect data under each IP address, everything! From your posts to shopping habits, online presence, porn sights you visit to social media presence all being tracked and recorded. Who uses this data, how they use this data, how they obtain this data....it's all out there for sale! Starting by your faithful Internet Service Provider! 

Things are not like before. Things are not like the 90s or even early 2000s. Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. etc but the worse is Meta. Any platform under Meta is equivalent to Chinese TikTok. 

 

Anyway, i'm not trying to deviate anyone from the original topic but I think no one should be frowned upon if they delete their od for sale post because it is absolutely valid since Internal Rev. Ser. maybe after all your online buy and sale posts to track. All it will take is a smart audit. 

 

Again, not trying to make anyone paranoid nor blowing unknown smoke. This is the new norm and it will just keep getting worse. The day will come when we will just throw the towel down on online activity. Pickup the woodworkshop and won't look back....but i'm afraid that will come at a much too late situation. 

[RichenFamous]

35 minutes ago, resra said:

I think every key stroke you type, for sale, comments, phone numbers, addresses, whatever etc. etc etc all by some entity or form is being tracked. No i'm not being paranoid. This is the new reality to create a.i 

It's a race to collect data under each IP address, everything! From your posts to shopping habits, online presence, porn sights you visit to social media presence all being tracked and recorded. Who uses this data, how they use this data, how they obtain this data....it's all out there for sale! Starting by your faithful Internet Service Provider! 

Things are not like before. Things are not like the 90s or even early 2000s. Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. etc but the worse is Meta. Any platform under Meta is equivalent to Chinese TikTok. 

 

Anyway, i'm not trying to deviate anyone from the original topic but I think no one should be frowned upon if they delete their od for sale post because it is absolutely valid since Internal Rev. Ser. maybe after all your online buy and sale posts to track. All it will take is a smart audit. 

 

Again, not trying to make anyone paranoid nor blowing unknown smoke. This is the new norm and it will just keep getting worse. The day will come when we will just throw the towel down on online activity. Pickup the woodworkshop and won't look back....but i'm afraid that will come at a much too late situation. 

I have thought this and of possible repercussions, but we all have our digital imprints that are impossible to scrub. Maybe a handful of people saw the writing on the wall years ago and staved off using the www, but no way can someone escape today’s data collection machine. Even if you pay your utility bills in cash at the hardware store, somewhere along the line you pumped gas with a card or took a flight, payed a bridge toll, something of your digital self is out there and traceable. 
When a member to this forum takes time out of their life to archive and catalog vin numbers and sale prices to calculate price trends/market data as a benefit to those of us who enjoy these cars, it just seems counter productive to that transparent idea to be scrubbing for sale posts. 
Maybe because a connection was made when I have met folks in person local to Sacramento and they show you who they are and some of these bad actors are the same NT sale poster scrubbers here. It adds up. 
I do appreciate the dialog and insight, thank you for the perspective.
Some FAQ folks I have chatted with personally seem to have crossed paths with the same select few. Fool me once… lol

[resra]

15 minutes ago, RichenFamous said:

I have thought this and of possible repercussions, but we all have our digital imprints that are impossible to scrub. Maybe a handful of people saw the writing on the wall years ago and staved off using the www, but no way can someone escape today’s data collection machine. Even if you pay your utility bills in cash at the hardware store, somewhere along the line you pumped gas with a card or took a flight, payed a bridge toll, something of your digital self is out there and traceable. 
When a member to this forum takes time out of their life to archive and catalog vin numbers and sale prices to calculate price trends/market data as a benefit to those of us who enjoy these cars, it just seems counter productive to that transparent idea to be scrubbing for sale posts. 
Maybe because a connection was made when I have met folks in person local to Sacramento and they show you who they are and some of these bad actors are the same NT sale poster scrubbers here. It adds up. 
I do appreciate the dialog and insight, thank you for the perspective.
Some FAQ folks I have chatted with personally seem to have crossed paths with the same select few. Fool me once… lol

 

Oh I know Rich, you have the best of intentions when you posted the remark and I absolutely agree with your perspective but I also bring the other side of reasoning where this all maybe headed sadly. It's all becoming about money! Every click, every stroke of a key is becoming a revenue for someone else at your expense. 

[Son of Marty]

The same arguments were made with first the advent of computers and the nreamplified when the pc hit the market, we're all going to loose our jobs to computers and you can't go anywhere with out them noticing and recording, but through it all some how we've persevered and we will through this too, not that I don't support taking as many precautions as you can but computers or ai will not end the world in a free country. Lets all take a deep breath and figure out the laws that are needed to handle this but by all means we can't run from it, it's here now. 

[conkitchen]

NT.....

 

I suppose I'm one of those "select few" as the OP has made references to my practice of using NT as "sus" in the past.  

 

Why I do it?  It's to cull any outdated information on this site. There still is stuff for sale from 10+ years ago by now dead people.  Like other for sale sites, after some time, posts go away so new ones can be seen. If the same said NT item were to come up on offer again by me,  I then generate a new and relevant post. While the intentions of historical used part price referencing is a semi-novel idea, I don't particularly see selling a used part for any amount as being pertinent to the future of intrinsic values.  As for cars, Let's just leave that for Bring a Trailer and the likes. Ebay deletes past auctions after so many days once completed.  

 

Don't read into this practice as conspiracy.  

 

I will be changing my use of NT to FO= forgotten observation 

 

Weeee ain't the internet swell? 🙂  

 

 

 

Edited August 13 by conkitchen

[RichenFamous]

I can see this side as well.
I have always viewed an enthusiast forum to be a place for historical data, be it help with mechanical troubles, to classifieds, to side discussions. NT looses that in my opinion. Outdated information, as you put it, is the novel idea. Folks that resurrect an old post or even folks who forget to mark post Sold or Found should be subject to correct the action. Maybe they missed the detail like a date posted or hoping an item wasn’t sold and OP still has it on the shelf. 
Totally agree that Bring a trailer is a good place to help evaluate the market, and this is precisely my point. FAQ is searchable for more than one reason. I prefer to look at searched data to help put a price on an item and especially to help not over inflate an item. I generally sell items on here at half eBay average so as to give back to folks who enjoy these cars. 
As for eBay deleting past auctions, this is two plus two equaling potato mentality. 
Search the classifieds for NT. Now I’ll search for FO, thanks for the heads up. 

Edited August 13 by RichenFamous

[jgerock]

I just reviewed my FS ad for my 73tii.  Good memories.

[RichenFamous]

Memories, another great point! A perfect example of historical data. What a great For Sale ad you put together. I remember this car and almost had my cousin go take a look at it for me. Malaga is nice and lots of folks love it, but it is my least favorite color. Still waiting on the right car.
Cheers to you Jim. 

Edited August 13 by RichenFamous

[JohnS]

One thing that is a nice feature of the FAQ web site is if you mark an ad as SOLD, it closes it to any further comments being added.  I like that

Edited August 13 by JohnS