I do have it in the view layout, but I have to display the view on the website which will be displayed to everyone (even those logged out or visitors) so everyone will see the link, but to some it will be empty. I don't know how to explain properly what I require.
Okay let's say Person A is the poster of the classified and Person B is a visitor to the site.
Person A needs to go to view their listings (preferably their author page which I can customize using Thesis and shortcodes). In their view they will see all their classifieds with edit links. This I can do with the view options above. However Person B wants to see that authors listings too so goes to the Person A's author page. I need Person A's classifieds to still show but because Person B is viewing it there must be no edit links.
Hope that makes sense. Is this possible?