No need for a disclaimer or apology, Tokheim. If a need is expressed for an item, or if you can legitimately help a discussion with info about items offered for sale, then it is really OK to post that reply in the General Petroliana Discussion forum. Yes, you can offer to sell an item in a reply if the original topic was about looking for that item.
That might sound like a contradiction, but here is the rule of thumb:
If the original topic message is about selling something, it should be on the "For Sale" forum. If the original topic message is about wanting something, then an appropriate reply can be to offer to provide that item. That holds true even for a pro dealer, as long as he is offering an item for sale in response to a request for that item.
Nobody has been shot for posting in the wrong forum category. But the moderators sometimes move a topic to a better category, close it or in the worst case, delete a topic if it is not in the best interest of the community.
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Jim "Oldgas" Potts
Your host and moderator
