Just a friendly reminder of what is on the top of the page.
One of the weirdest policies I've ever seen, for a place intended for information sharing between pilots.
Not saying anything about this particular classified ad, just that the policy seems to encourage and enable ripoff artists more than extend the "front porch of aviation" concept. If a deal sucks, I'd have no problem saying so on any other "front porch".
PoA isn't Craigslist and doesn't seem, to me anyway, to have any vested interest in protecting the classifieds from commentary.
Probably deserves a different thread so this guy can sell a 430 in peace. Or no bread at all so the Board can have some peace. I'm not arguing to change it. I'm just voicing a very minor concern that it's not a very contributing-member-friendly policy.
So many classifieds here are from one-hit wonder "non-member members" as one of the Board members of one of the clubs I sit on a Board for, calls them, who only post once a year in the classifieds.
Again being clear, I'm not saying this particular post is taking advantage of anyone. I've seen better prices on 430s installed, and I've seen worse.
And with that non-committal sentence I broke policy. Ban-hammer time for me.
Interestingly the other club I'm on the BoD of runs a "swap list" and we don't ban anyone from telling other members that something on the list is or isn't a good deal. That's between the members and the seller and members discuss the things in the swap list all the time on the air in public. (It's a ham radio club.)
We don't afford those who wish to hawk their wares any special privileges over the membership. If it got personal or out of hand we'd kill the swap list itself before we would make censorship rules about what members could discuss.
I've heard this discussion:
"That old junk you listed on the swaplist is way too high!"
"Well, what do you think it's worth?"
"About $500."
"You a buyer at that price?"
"Well yeah, that's a great price!"
"Meet me at IHOP near your house in an hour. Bring cash."
LOL.
