i payed to become a gold member couple of months ago
didn't have anything to sell or anything
just use the site regularly and thought i'd contribute as its only a tenner
just couple days ago i decided to sell some parts
all sold within 2 days just with the ad on here
so the tenner i paid has just paid for itself 10 times over with 1 ad
absoute bargain price, would have cost me more than that for the ad elsewhere
and i've still got 10 more months to sell anything else
dont see why you wouldn't want to become a goldmember