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I'll preface this with: Here's my 
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Sellers post ads. They are advertising for themselves. Maybe the policy should just be against non-sellers posting advertising for items? Period.
Now, on the age old question of "not being able to post links is a double standard"....
The fact is that nobody wants to spend more than they need to for anything.
As a seller, you are trying to maximize your revenues by posting links.
As a buyer, you are not posting links, period (rich loonies being the exception).
As a casual observer, you want to post links because:
A) you want to alert someone (most likely a total stranger - even if they are part of the SS "family") to a truck that they otherwise would not have know about, or
B) you want the revenue from surplus sales to be as high as it can be, or
C) you think that someone needs to "save" the truck from the "scrapper".
There may be a few other reasons, but those are the biggies.
Let's look at those:
A) Why? To be a hero? To be the guy who "found something cool"? To be a "good guy"? You only want to do any of these because you either can't afford the item or you are not interested in it (probably because you can't afford it). It comes back to the fact that the basic question to ask yourself has ALWAYS been:
"If you were bidding on any given item, would you post a link to it here or anywhere else?"
If you answer that question with a "Yes", well then you're either a rich person who feels the need to show everyone just how rich you are by spending money needlessly, or you have a screw loose.
If you answer "No", but you still feel the need/desire to post the link (presumably because you're NOT bidding on said item), then you obviously feel that a) you are more special than any other person on this site who may also already know about the item and might actually be bidding on it or b) your desire to be a "good guy" is more important than some other schmuck's dollars or c) your ESP enables you to know that nobody else in the MV world could possibly know about the sale, so you shall alert everyone. Again, we only get to this point because you are not one of the schmucks who are bidding.
B) A wonderful, admirable, ostensible purpose. You would not be alone, either. How could anyone be against such a thing? Well, if this is your reasoning, then you should be sure to post links to everything you are bidding on to help maximize revenue from those as well. Refer to the section about answering the question with a "Yes" above.
C) Another wonderful, admirable, ostensible purpose. You found the auction, didn't you? Are you so egotistical to think that nobody else on the face of the planet could possibly know about this, except the evil "scrappers"? Have you checked the price of scrap? Even including the commodity anomaly of last year, a deuce is worth more in good usable parts than it is as scrap.
I'll go back to my hiding place with this final question.... (Again)
"If you were bidding on any given item, would you post a link to it here or anywhere else?"
I didn't think so...
...Sellers post ads. They are advertising for themselves. Maybe the policy should just be against non-sellers posting advertising for items? Period.
Now, on the age old question of "not being able to post links is a double standard"....
The fact is that nobody wants to spend more than they need to for anything.
As a seller, you are trying to maximize your revenues by posting links.
As a buyer, you are not posting links, period (rich loonies being the exception).
As a casual observer, you want to post links because:
A) you want to alert someone (most likely a total stranger - even if they are part of the SS "family") to a truck that they otherwise would not have know about, or
B) you want the revenue from surplus sales to be as high as it can be, or
C) you think that someone needs to "save" the truck from the "scrapper".
There may be a few other reasons, but those are the biggies.
Let's look at those:
A) Why? To be a hero? To be the guy who "found something cool"? To be a "good guy"? You only want to do any of these because you either can't afford the item or you are not interested in it (probably because you can't afford it). It comes back to the fact that the basic question to ask yourself has ALWAYS been:
"If you were bidding on any given item, would you post a link to it here or anywhere else?"
If you answer that question with a "Yes", well then you're either a rich person who feels the need to show everyone just how rich you are by spending money needlessly, or you have a screw loose.
If you answer "No", but you still feel the need/desire to post the link (presumably because you're NOT bidding on said item), then you obviously feel that a) you are more special than any other person on this site who may also already know about the item and might actually be bidding on it or b) your desire to be a "good guy" is more important than some other schmuck's dollars or c) your ESP enables you to know that nobody else in the MV world could possibly know about the sale, so you shall alert everyone. Again, we only get to this point because you are not one of the schmucks who are bidding.
B) A wonderful, admirable, ostensible purpose. You would not be alone, either. How could anyone be against such a thing? Well, if this is your reasoning, then you should be sure to post links to everything you are bidding on to help maximize revenue from those as well. Refer to the section about answering the question with a "Yes" above.
C) Another wonderful, admirable, ostensible purpose. You found the auction, didn't you? Are you so egotistical to think that nobody else on the face of the planet could possibly know about this, except the evil "scrappers"? Have you checked the price of scrap? Even including the commodity anomaly of last year, a deuce is worth more in good usable parts than it is as scrap.
I'll go back to my hiding place with this final question.... (Again)
"If you were bidding on any given item, would you post a link to it here or anywhere else?"
I didn't think so...
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. The last round I had with them they didn't seem too commited 
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