Soaring Community Consumer Warning

Interesting. I noticed that a recent RAS post (copied below, or link he https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?f...ng/OK8wPduHU-U) by glidersource.com included what I imagine is Bill Elliot's JS-1b. But if you click the link you can see that it is removed. This post was from March 7. So it has been removed in the past few weeks.

I imagine Bill (owner of soaring cafe) was recently strong armed in much the same way as the originator of this thread. Hilarious. This is just too funny.

Let the soaring want ad wars begin!

EN GARDE!

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Items listed alphabetically within each category.

*** Sailplane ***
Blanik L13 LZ12, (http://glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=250 ) (photo)
Jonkers Sailplanes, JS-1B 18m, $139,900 (http://glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=288 ) (photo)
L-23 Wingtip Extensions, $800 (http://glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=209 ) (photo)
Lak12 LZ 615, (http://glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=252 ) (photo)
Libelle Canopy, $ (http://glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=210 ) (photo)
Nimbus 2B, $24000 (http://glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=314 ) (photo)
Schweizer SGS 1-35 ("ZT"). S/N 30. , $ (http://glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=244 ) (photo)
SZD.41.A Jantar Std. LZ604 , (http://glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=251 )
T65C VEGA SPORT, £11500 (http://glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=273 ) (photo)

http://soaringcafe.com/classified-ad...d=2&results=30

No Ad for Bills own JS1 on his own website, soaring cafe.

I wonder if W&W has been sending out strong men to shake down people who post ads in trade a plane too?

:-)

LOL!!!! ROTFL!!!!!!

Bill and any other advertiser are free to turn their glidersource.com ads on and off at their discretion at any time, for any reason they choose. Maybe because they're going on vacation, maybe because they want to conduct some marketing research, maybe because a sale is pending.
Adds turned off (or "paused" as I call it), can be turned back on without loss of content, emailing anyone, or having to comply with a world-domination policy.

Sean: Am I surprized Tim didn't take me up on the web programming offer? No, but it was sincere, nonetheless. Still, for the sake of sailplane shoppers, I hope he can figure out a way to sort, index, or categorize the nine or more pages of aircraft ads.