I've been refreshing the speedster classifieds and (sadly?) no new cars recently but I see new replies to existing for-sale posting. But, there's no way to tell if a car has a new home w/o reading every post. Am I missing something obvious or is there really no way to update a post's title to add sold or something?
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Most will post a comment that the car has sold. Or they’ll post that it’s sold and ask Theron to close the thread. Some don’t do anything and a year or so later someone will ask if a car has been sold. After you read an ad go to the last comment and work your way back to maybe know if a car has sold.
I believe it would be up to the seller to post that their car has been sold.
This site isn't like an auction site that is monitored.
Easy for seller to just post SOLD to the For Sale thread - but many just cut and run.
"This site isn't like an auction site that is monitored."
This site isn't like ANY site that gets monitored..... 
Time to echo Andy Rooney...
"you ever wonder why the add is still up yet is says sold for three months? Is this meant to inform or torture? Being old school I always figured if the add was down so were my chances. Especially where chasing the seller with offers of more $ than he asked, and my sisters virginity proved fruited fruitless -understood if you saw my sister. And what about buyer's remorse? My older brother built and sold street rods with "taillight warrantee" which translated to "if you can not longer see the tail lights you own it."
Back when things were simple...
I'd say torture explains it 
Most will post SOLD SOLD SOLD. If requested, I will add it to the initial post.
-=theron
You guys forget that a fair number of things for sale (especially cars) that are posted here are by people who registered 10 minutes before, and once what they have is sold they'll never post on here again. To those people this is just free ad space. I think only paid members should be able to sell stuff here (would keep the riff-raff away AND provide a little more income for the site) but that's only my opinion. What say @Theron? Al
Al, you're starting to sound like one of "those people". You shouldn't be allowed to post classifieds if you don't have a running car LOL!
Other forums I am on make a for-sale post contingent on some number of posts. Being mostly a lurker I missed that some of the for-sales were not long timers I guess
But look at some of these old "For Sale" ads:
After either the sale is made or it's been a very long time, some really good comments come out (maybe un-related) OR the thread drifts off into unknown territories and actually gets interesting. Usually way better than an ad with 342 photos in three axes, spaced at 15º apart when, really, 6 friggin photos of the car and a decent description would do. If you want more, PM the seller.
My apologies, too many people post ads today with no simple decency. Whenever I've posted on Craigslist etc. I've tried to respond to the person saying it's sold. That way they're not let waiting.
The world doesn't work like that anymore. Common courtesy is gone.
@Boothy posted:My apologies, too many people post ads today with no simple decency. Whenever I've posted on Craigslist etc. I've tried to respond to the person saying it's sold. That way they're not let waiting.
The world doesn't work like that anymore. Common courtesy SENSE is gone.
Fixed it.
