[wally509]

No they were not flagged as not constructive. They were submitted just like hitting the "Post Quick Reply" here on Pelican, but one gets a response from the website saying something like "moderators are reviewing your comments, they will be posted shortly". In both my and my friends case they never went up at all.

Now here's one thing I did notice, it seems when enough people hit them with the same question they let one or two of the comments finally go up. They must wait until they get an appropriately crafted response from the seller. As you can imagine, with a 944 auction, they got inundated with 'WHEN WAS THE TIMING BELT DONE LAST?", which was my friends question which never got posted so he dropped out of the bidding. Eventually they did let one or two go up and to their credit they did let the "if that belt hasn't been done since then, I would trailer, not drive the car to a shop and have it done immediately" comments go up afterward.

This is sort of backed by my experience, which was calling BS about a Healey 100 that was on there. The seller claimed the engine was built up and made 200 hp. Well everybody knows that even if you spend $20-30-40K in the Denis Welch catalog, you ain't gonna make no 200 hp with one of those engines, let alone be streetable. They're pretty much grenades anything over 150. With all the mods he had I estimated 125-135 if it was tuned really well. It was the same deal, they got sooo many similar comments, they eventually let a few of them go up and the seller responded "sorry for the confusion, I talked to xxx at Denis Welch and he estimated this engine makes ~130hp". But once again my comment never went up.

Sorry for the rambling,
Wally