Just to further elaborate, the reason that for sale ads are prohibited in the forums is to prevent commercial sellers from continually posting ads and interupting the forum traffic. Since it is hard to make exceptions, no one gets to post ads.

I have found that the occasional mention of an item for sale seldom gets much interest from a mod, but doing it repeatedly will cause you problems. Also, if you are interested in something, send a PM to the member in question. There is no rule against discussing commerce in private messages.

Mark