Forsale policy for the Turbo List

These rules apply to all forsale, for auction and wanted posts.

1.  Auction posts are permitted so long as the following
    points are followed:

   A.  You post once and only once per auction period (this
       means that if you are running 7 concurrent auctions,
       you are allowed 1 post, not 7).  See rule 3 for 
       what an "auction period" is.
   B.  The word AUCTION (or "FA") must appear in the subject
       of your message.
   C.  eBay auctions are expressly forbidden from being 
       advertised on the list (see explanations, below).

2.  Items that are not directly related to the Turbo, PCE
    or PC-FX family of video gaming systems are not welcome,
    and will be treated as off-topic posts.  This holds
    true even if you list one "off topic" title in a sea
    of 10 on-topic ones.

3.  You are permitted one sale/auction/trade post per month,
    regardless.  This means that you must consolidate all of 
    your on-topic items into one single post.  Also note that 
    the list utilizes a sig chopper, so that if the de facto
    sig indicator is found ("--"), a silent 4-line sig 
    enforcement takes place.  It is your responsibility to
    ensure that your post is not cut off.  Re-posting a forsale
    message because "the list cut off your earlier one,"
    is not a valid excuse.  You can contact the list owner
    to detemine if a particular key sequence is considered
    a signature indicator or not.  In general, this last part
    will only be enforced in extreme cases (ie, mutliple
    posting "attempts").

4.  Posting the forsale list of others gives you the responsibilty
    of assuring that the other party follws these rules.  Pointing
    out a web site that sells pirated goods will be treated as
    any other piracy post: you will lose your posting priviledges.
    Posting a message for a person who has previously lost their
    posting privs for list violations will cause you to lose yours 
    as well.

Explanation about the eBay rule:  The list now, and always has
took a pro-active stance against piracy; this includes soliciting
for or selling pirated software or advertising "ROM" or CD-R
web sites.  eBay does not seem to take this same approach in what
they allow their customers to sell, and advertising an item for
auciton on eBay on this list is akin to advertising a piracy
web site.  eBay appears to have little or no interest in stopping
pirated software sales (as complaints to safeharbor@ebay.com
about pirated software sales generally get a response back 5 days
later saying, "The auction has run its course and is now over").
If and when this policy changes, then the eBay ban will be lifted.

further information may be found in the file auction.gl, however the 
information in this file supercedes that one.

For the purpose of the Turbo List, an Auction is defined as "Any
offer of sale without a set price."