Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 22 September 2014, 13:14:49 Well... I'm the one who approved your thread so I had an unfair advantage LOL.



This is exactly what is wrong with thread approving.



For the record, whenever I approve a thread and want to buy something, I always add at the bottom of my PM a disclaimer that I approved the thread and had an unfair advantage. It doesn't necessarily eliminate this sort of thing from happening entirely, but it lets them know that if for example they receive another PM within a minute they should choose to sell to them.It's also not fair to disallow mods from buying from threads they approve, so I think this is the best alternative.