Honestly, I saw the post and felt horrible for the guy, so I clicked the link to see what I could buy. That's when I noticed it was an eBay link. It struck me, that it was an ebay thread and I almost never go in the Ebay thread.
I thought that, man, I bet someone hit notify on this thread. So, testing my theory that people never fail to disappoint you if given the chance, I checked to see if anyone had hit "notify". You do this by clicking on the notify button and if someone has already informed moderation it will show a message like "someone has already notified moderation about this post".
If you click on the "notify" button but don't hit submit on the next screen, it doesn't notify the mods, but it's a good way to see if the button has already been humped.
The OP posted at 11:32am (my time), I saw the post went to ebay, came back, noticed the button was humped and posted my post by 11:48am. So sometime in the first 15 minutes someone humped. At 12:11pm it was moved.
I did not know that either. I haven't hit the button that I can ever remember. But I agree a gentle PM would have been nice as it was an obvious posting error.