(and the mods you got involved)
I never got anyone involved, did not "report post" or anything of the kind.
You're the one with a problem with me, not a lack of price.
Don't tell me what I think. I don't know you, or have a problem with you. My problem was with your
ad, not you. When people see a FS ad, they expect to see a price. It's that simple. Other people had the same "problem", and we all tried to resolve it the same way, by asking the price. You could have answered, but chose not to, then the mods deleted your thread, and now you feel persecuted.
The status of your car (non-op for 4 years, can't pass smog) meant that the buyer would have lots of logistics to deal with, possibly having to move it to a non-smog state. With all that to consider, the price of the car was probably more important than mileage or age of timing belt.
You posted your price on craigslist... eventually. That means either you respect CL buyers more than us, to not make them waste time and bandwidth asking back and forth "how much?", OR you were getting flooded with ridiculous offers of $1 or $200 or $500, and you had to block them somehow ... by posting the price you wanted in the first place.
Anyway, you found a buyer, you both are presumably happy with the price paid/received. Good luck to both of you.
What could you and those mods possibly think was accomplished by deleting MY feeler in particular over others?
Again. Not exactly a "feeler", when you say you are selling it, and intend to list it on CL/etc after giving us a half-day head start. The other guy's wagon "feeler" (he called it a "price check") had an actual discussion about prices, and within 3 hours someone found his CL ad with the final price. Your thread, to my recollection, lasted several hours longer and only got a garbage throwaway response "I offer $1". In retrospect, if you had posted in the Mk4 forum instead of Cars For Sale, it wouldn't have been deleted. Probably not gotten the smartass "$1 offer" either.
I don't doubt it. I think you're just taking it all a bit too personally.