Unfortunately for the youth of today, the all pervading nature of social media means that they do their growing up in public with the result that evidence of their mistakes is indelibly recorded for posterity.
I for one am very glad that the only record of some of the daft things I said and did while growing up is in the alcohol fuddled memories of those present and I never woke up to find that a video of me behaving like a d!ck the night before had already been shared and viewed several thousand times before breakfast.
I’m sure that on reflection, the OP wishes that he had never started this thread and although vindicated by most of the responses, I’m sure that the seller would prefer not to have been dragged through all of this - hence my suggestion to delete the thread.
I should perhaps have been clearer that I was including myself in the “old grumpies” - there are plenty of us on here and we tend to dominate discussions. It would be a shame if a young and to date quite active member, ceased to post (it is over a day now since he last checked in), because of the reaction to his ill-judged thread. I’m sure lessons have been learnt and IMHO it would be no bad thing if this thread disappeared but that is not my decision.
- what the goodness gracious is this nonsense. - Sent the seller a message. Naturally no reply. Sent a more strongly worded ultimatum to which I get the "hey hey hey, let's calm down here" 
