What counts against "Listing Amount" in Membership plan ?

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What counts against the "Listing Amount" in a membership plan?
1. ad going to term ?
2. ad sold?
3. ad deactivated ?
4. ad deleted ?
5. If ad is deleted then is the time it is active used to decrease the credits used on a pro rata basis ?

Example: if the "listing amount" in a membership plan is 20, and some counter in the system is set to 20. 
Then, as the ads are "used" this amount is decreased until it reaches 0.
Which of the above cause a decrease in the counter?
 

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very good question.

[Smart Girl]

A very good question which answer can be found in a User Manual at http://www.iautosoftware.com/demo/doc/UserManual/membership_plans.htm :
Listings Amount — number of listings which user can add to the system.

The amount of ALL existing listings: active, pending, deactivated, rejected etc.

As you can understand, deleted listings do not exist and thus are not counted.

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Lena
Thanks for the reply.
I think I understand.
The amount in the membership plans is the number of ad which can be on the system at one time, no matter what its status.

However, there is an apparent hole.
If for example:
Membership plan  allowed is 2, and the time is unlimited.

A user could game the system by running an ad and when it is sold he could delete the ad, submit another ad and when it is sold then he could delete that ad,  and post another, and so  for ever, essentially
thereby combating the membership plan.

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