I would be hesitant to trust anyone enough to purchase anything from them
if they cannot follow such a simple rule.


You won't be buying the Catalina anyway, Steve. No one will be injured by my
single post and I hardly strafe this group with ads. Someone is going to get a
good boat for well under her value. It cracks me up that you wouldn't take
advantage of a deal because of where it's posted. If I followed that rule I
would have missed out on my last boat!
It also cracks me up when people, complaining about ads and the space they
take, actually take time and space to respond to them which insures there will
be more.
By the way, Rec.Marketplace section is not accepting ads (unless they fixed it
recently).

RB