That's true Martin.

Infact you could pay £400+ to be able to post in a Traders section that might aswell have tumbleweed blowing through it for how often it gets posted in, or pay normal Gold Membership to be able to canvas anybody and everybody that shows any sign of wanting something that you can help with. Talk about circumventing the system.

I'd have thought the paid/verified trader thing should go some way towards giving Passionford members some kind of sureity as to who they are dealing with, but if any random person can join, pay the Gold membership and sell to anybody, then I wonder how long it will be before someone gets had.

I know there will always be an amount of trade go on behind the scenes by PM, but if the trading rules were as set-in-stone as they at first appear to be, then any evidence of this kind of trading going on could be dealt with by way of a forum ban, but since the rules are so wide open, it's having the piss taken out of it. Well, I'm on that bandwagon, or at least will be from now and once all the ex-traders are enjoying as lucrative a trade as they formally were, then what will be the point in becoming a trader atall?

What makes me laugh is that Pete was there waving the rule-book around when I was selling MY OWN BITS, despite being told repeatedly that I was allowed to, now this. Let's just change the forum name to PassionPete, since you seem to want it all your way.

I'm sorry to those that have put so much into this forum, but it is fundamentally flawed. I've tried to keep attacks of this nature to myself, but it's just not consistent.