Posted by MQracing [ 68.162.99.19 ] on September 15, 2005 at 16:04:50:
In Reply to: Merlin OPTx:group purchase organization posted by PakProtector on September 15, 2005 at 15:47:05:
is this an advertisement as defined by the ART rules?
Given the multiple posts advertising these transformers just over the last few days alone... and if you count back a year or so ago... he was hawking these same transformers here.
and that Doug alludes to the fact that he has had a long term relationship with this company.
and that the prices apparently are different in different forums and even in the same forum over a period of time.... i noticed that they keep coming down... soon, I suspect, if potential buyers held out long enough Doug might even pay them to take a pair.
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