your coders need to go back and take a hard look at the functionality of the original marketplace. it was not ever a simple for sale forum. it was an auction site that had a buy now/offer now format. that functionality is what made it work and made RCU something other than just one more place to post about r/c stuff.
now yall can continue to whine about how it just can not be done that way, but those of us that were around way back when this place started know, that, with effort and the will to make it happen, it CAN BE DONE.
or yall can just rock along fat dumb and happy as this place drys up and blows away.