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Thing is...
Copied and pasted text can be edited.
Screenshots can be edited.
Even saving the page as an HTML allows it to be edited.
Now... purely as a hypothetical... and using Rich as an example, since we can all reccognize it as being JUST AN EXAMPLE...
"Here's a copied and pasted Ad I saw on Kingsnake- "Posted by Serpenco, fifty foot labyrinth albino het for legs burmese python, fifty bucks. Paypal me now since it's first come first serve."
Now... clearly that wasn't posted by Rich, Rich would say that it wasn't posted by him and that it never existed... the other person simply contends that it was deleted.
The reverse is also possible... there is an Ad selling something bad or still posted where the animal was purchased and then misrepresented, the party who was ripped off wants to post a link to show others what the text of the ad said... The bad guy just deletes the ads and then claims that the whole thing is a vindictive hoax.
While dead links are bad... if a link is provided IN ADDITION to the text of the ad or a screenshot, even if it's only looked at and verified to be accurate by two or three people before it's edited or removed, it provides complimentary testamony if the person who was caught decides to deny it later on.
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