I've been following this thread the past few days and one thing has kind of struck me in the conversation.

People have mentioned that it's very generous of Team Estrogen to have created a forum on their dime. Other people have compared the feel at this forum to other cycling boards. What seems to be being overlooked is that this message board is not affiliated with a group or organization, it is affiliated with an on-line store. Personally, I'm impressed not by the fact that they created a free message board, but by the fact that they felt it benefited the forum to create a FS section.

Amongst the many functions that it serves for us, this message board is a marketing tool for TE. While the FS posts in question in this thread are for an item category that TE doesn't sell (bikes), other items have been posted that could be considered to be in direct conflict with the Team Estrogen on-line store. To me, that's what's generous of the TE folks, that they don't seem to be highly concerned about that competition and apparently willingly created a place for board members to trade and sell used items, many of which are from the same categories as the TE store. While I don't feel strongly one way or the other about the specific situation in this thread (though I will say the original post reminded me a teeny bit of Smurf's recent hurt feelings/I'm leaving post), I do think that says something about the character of the people running both the on-line store and the forum.