Only items actually available in the San Francisco Bay Area (which is what ba.* refers to) should be posted here.  (Out of the area mail order is not OK.) The operative ad guidelines are available in complete form at <http://www.fmn.net/FAQ.  (If that site does not respond, try <http://faqs.org/faqs/misc-forsale-faq/buying-selling/ or <http://www.landfield.com/faqs/misc-forsale-faq/buying-selling/.) misc.forsale.* guidelines apply to ba.market.* and related newsgroups. As a matter of convenience, I have extracted here the essential elements of the FAQ that pertain to ads: =========================================================================== = ...     2.)  As a courtesy to those of us with limited access, please          learn how to cancel articles before you post.  After          your item has sold, it is courteous to cancel your ad          electronically.  Often, you need only press a capital           C while re-reading your article, but this varies.          When in doubt, ask your local system administrator for          help.     3.)  The Usenet Marketplace is serious business.  Please make          certain you are posting to the appropriate group, and          please don't post test articles, joke ads, or          unrealistic schemes to the Marketplace.  Such activities          have helped others lose their accounts.  ... ...   The Usenet Marketplace is intended to provide a forum for     individuals and companies to dispose of goods they no longer     need, and also to serve as a means of advertising for     organizations and individuals who offer goods and services     of special interest to the readership.  More specifically,     misc.forsale groups are reserved for individual-to-individual     sales of goods the seller doesn't need any more, as you might     see at a garage sale.  The groups in biz.marketplace,     meanwhile, are specifically for profit-motivated entities