How does one know the status of merchadise offered under the buy, sell, swap of give topic.
Is there a termination notice?
If something is sold, hopefully the original poster will come back here, and reply to the original message that the item has been sold. This will "top-post" the message. I believe then the MUGOO Message Board moderator (who reads all of these messages, I am sure; we're not that busy, yet!) will move it to the Archive "board", called "Sold or Old". So you won't see it here anymore. If he's really quick, and you're wondering where an item went, you might check there.
I've personally responded to someone else's item that I personally have bought, after waiting to see if the seller would mark it sold, just to move things along.
Also, if you choose the "notify" tab right next to the "reply" tab at the top of each thread, you can have "modifications" to the thread sent to you, to give you alerts as to activities pertaining to that thread (things like replies, or movement to the "sold or old" board have been sent to me in the past). The alert can be emailed to your personal email, and I believe also to your private message mailbox.
I hope that helps.
-Mike