disappointed? ok. you are entitled to your opinion. and as to making personal attacks... i am not so bo liao. i got better things to do. you, on the other hand, seems to want make it personal.
i am answering your comment in relation to your barbs to catchlights. it's always easy to insinuate we are not doing our jobs, and members know how to do it better. (The mods need to prioritize what is impt for clubsnap. Is keeping clean threads (just to make clubsnap look nice and neat and proper) more impt than getting rid of bandits? Yeah, the mods can explain the importance of keeping thread nice and neat, but do they know what are the interests of members and how to protect these interests?) one of the funniest things that we the mods ever experience when we are appointed as mods by the Admins is that problems that we (when as members) think it is damn easy to solve, suddenly become a whole new ballgame once we (now as mods) recognise the crap that goes on behind the scenes - crap that members (or bandits, as you call them) create, whether intentionally or otherwise.
your 'logic' of policing is flawed. pure and simple. we do not have the resources to do what you are suggesting... unless you want to create a paying membership model for CS, which someone once proposed some years ago in relation to this exact problem that you are stating now. i am not saying our radar is better than NASA and i definitely don't want to claim it is better than yours. the thing that i am saying that you are missing out is that, at the end of the day, it is buyers beware. it is the onus of the buyer/seller to be careful. of course, sh1t happens. the only reasonable recourse for any aggrieved party, if you want to recover your $, is to make a police report or pursue a civil suit. it is not CS' purpose or intention to police on your behalf. we don't have the resources, time and legal powers to do so. the best we can offer is to give you all the space to post (like this warning thread), and would love to have more responsible members to use the bad post function (as catchlights suggested) to report blatantly obvious scam posts or problematic sellers/buyers. if there are sufficient evidence to suggest that the CSer is up to no good, we will ban them. otherwise, we can't ban someone just becos the person is an a55. god knows we would love to be able to ban a55es... but, nope, the Admins' house rules are clear on this. their house, their rules.
so, rather than taking potshots at the entire admin/mod team, why don't everyone suggest more reasonable ideas? or better still... stop being the problem. if you really hate it, or better still, think we are not doing the job up to your standards (which, as catchlights mentioned in case you missed it - we are volunteering our services), leave.
this is my last word on this cos we are hijacking the thread on something that is irrelevant to the original posting. if anyone wants to post anything that is not pertinent to the original thread, do it offline.