Missing Thread

Discussions about ebay are usually deleted around here. Ok to use the word ebay in a post, but not to discuss ebay's policies, auctions, post links to auctions, etc. Not saying I entirely agree, but it is OGR's forum and they do put it here free of charge for all of us to use so I am not complaining.

Chances are it is gone forever, lost in cyberspace.

Lesson to take away from this: When creating lengthy or important posts, do it on some text editor. Save it and paste it to the forum. Just like good old fashioned carbon paper. I speak from experience on this.

A specific EBay seller was mentioned, so the thread was deleted.

IMHO, the thread would still be there if no specific dealer or auction lot was referenced.

i'm not sure why the designers of this web forum decided that even when you "follow a topic" your own posts do not get forwarded.  sometimes makes the string a bit hard to follow through email posts, but more importantly as in your case, the original post was lost and even if you were to reply with the OP quoted, seeing it is your reply, that too would not get forwarded.

the only workarounds would be to copy and email yourself your own post/replies or load and save a copy of the web page before it gets deleted.

Thanks, everybody--if the thread was indeed deleted, that's the admin's call and that's the end of it.  I don't want to cause a problem or rub anyone the wrong way.

Mods/admins, in the vBulletin boards I've moderated, "deleted" threads still exist on the back end.  If that's the case here as well and someone would be kind enough to send me my post from earlier, I'd be obliged.