Originally Posted by
gugi
A little bit of it is by design, the sold items remain for a week so that the buyer and the seller can have a reference to the ad when the buyer receives the item, just in case there are questions of what was actually promised. (Of course the seller can delete the ad before then if they wish, which in my opinion is imperfect, but for now workable solution.)
This being said, the classifieds software is really messy and with very limited options, so the things we have common complaints about are (1) not possible by configuration in the software (2) apparently not worth the time of any of the developers to implement (after all they are all volunteers with other things to do as well).
The best we can do at this point, is move to a newer version of the software and this will probably happen relatively soon, where we may have more setup options (and the code I believe was cleaned up, so may be development can be easier). Or if there's somebody good at programming (php/sql) with free time on their hands and interest in adding some functionality, I'm sure the dev team would welcome them.