Why keep the SOLD items in the listings?. I can see leaving them there a week, so the Moderator's can give Karma where deserved. They should then be removed. After the first or second page of most of the classified pages, half of the listings are SOLD.

sold means the ads are working! they drop off the list because they are locked...they move down fast out of the way as new stuff is posted....we prune old stuff periodically!