Bill's thoughtful posting WAS a "nice try", Sean, but not in the sarcastic way you meant it.

Among other things, he explained why he decided to experiment with moving his ad to Tim's W&W site. You just don't want to believe him. And your advice (more like a demand) to him doesn't even make sense. From one of your many over-the-top posts yesterday (this one from the original Consumer Warning thread):

"When I look for gliders for sale I check all of the popular sites. I imagine everyone else does too. Nobody in their right mind would put all their eggs in W&W. It would be a very big risk (and increasing every day) to simply depend on W&W to sell your glider, in my opinion."

So if buyers "check all of the popular sites", how are sellers who advertise on W&W putting all their eggs in one basket? This ignores, of course, the fact that W&W is arguably the best known such site and currently carries 2/3 of the ads out there. I suspect Bill wondered if SoaringCafe and GliderSource --while growing in popularity and functionally superior--still aren't as widely known (because they're newer) and that he might be missing some potential buyers familiar only with W&W. In that, Bill strikes me as someone who's more interested in results than in braying from a soapbox to feed his ego.

You claim to be an expert in this area. I'm sure you know there are numerous sites (and applications) with really cool features that users don't want, don't need, and/or simply don't know how to use. That often changes over time, of course. But if you need to sell your sailplane now, you're not as interested in what the landscape will look like in a year or two.

Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"
U.S.A.