Originally Posted by Chip-3Door
Ps
If people like yourself are discouraged from posting after this latest change it will be a big loss to the paying site users, even if its somehow of benefit to the other businesses on here.
it is in no way aimed at any one individual on here, we are trying to make passionford move forwards. unfortunatly one of the ways is to possibly upset some of the longer established members on here.
we are trying to remove the bedroom traders who actually undercut the registered traders on here.
Originally Posted by Chip-3Door
im sure it must be possible to make a go of it from a financial point of view with just user contributions?
this topic has been done to death a few times before chip, the level of gold members does not come anywhere close to fund the site.
Originally Posted by cozzfather
i think the more well known ford tuners and specialists that use
this site the better

again we agree with this and are trying to get more tuners/traders but they are sometimes discouraged by the fact for £20 you can sell any thing you want.
Should Passionford be totally free for everyone?
in which case who should pay for the hosting fee's etc.. do you want adverts inbetween posts on threads as some other sites choose to do?
would you prefer a trade user base that you know you can buy from with confidence rather than any one who pm's you with a nice bargain only to find you have been scammed later on?
As moderators its hard for us to sit there and see this happen to users who lets be honest trust the person they are buying from, then try and get some form of comeback later.
The people that offer the technical advice on here are in no way being targeted as a site we need to try and remove the people stopping traders from advertising and this is one of the complaints we have had in the past.
I for one am always open to suggestions and ideas on how the site can be improved...
so please feel free to pm me or post here any ideas you may have .
its our community and in such we should try and work together to make it move forward.