Allow us to be the first to welcome you to the Usenet
    Marketplace, where anything and everything changes hands at
    the best prices around.  Many, many satisfied
    computer-users have purchased everything from computer
    accessories to sailboards, houses to rollerblades.  We invite
    you to browse and see what the Usenet Marketplace has to
    offer.

  This FAQ acts as a general guide to transactions over all of
    the misc.forsale.* and biz.marketplace.* newsgroups, and
    provides suggestions applicable to many other advertising
    groups as well.  Its primary purpose is to answer many
    [F]requently [A]sked [Q]uestions and to guide all users
    through their transactions over the newsgroups.

  From buying to selling, whether you're a seasoned net user or
    not, read on!  We guarantee that some of these tips will
    help even the most experienced users on the misc.forsale
    and biz.marketplace groups.
 
  Please, _before_reading_this_, make certain you have read the
    "Network Etiquette" FAQ according to Emily Postnews,
    posted regularly in news.announce.newusers.  All of the
    FAQs referred to in these articles are also available by
    anonymous FTP at rtfm.mit.edu in /pub/usenet-by-groups/