Thanks for at last answering a few of my questions with honest,decent answers rather than skirting around the issues like what has happenned so far.Again,you've made totally valid and understandable points and I completley understand your suspicions.your quite correct about long,ongoing arguments and after reading the thread if there's a blanket rule regarding anyone involved in the motor industry/likely to gain from pf then ok although I really think all cases should be judged on their own merits.mark acted due to the fact that two people chose to report me as a trader,neither of these people know me,I'm pretty confident of that as if they did I'm sure they would have pm'd me first to prevent all of this,my main umbridge is that I was banned from selling without anyone asking me first what the background was to me selling these parts etc.could you answer me one more question on this matter?how far do we go in deciding who's trading?I mean,if someone sells a car on here and takes one in p/x and then sells it on here,is he/she a trader?I mean,it could be argued that by taking a p/x your offering motor trade facilities.if someone buys a rotten Rs turbo and breaks it for spares,hes considered a trader,however same person buys same car,starts a very brief resto thread and declares the car rotten and is breaking it "just to get his money back" is not frowned upon,although essentially it's the same thing,just some members are being clever about it.If you work on the reception of your local kwikfit,does that make you a motortrader?I doubt it!I used to work in a ford car manufacturing plant,yet when I went to buy parts from my local motor factors,I recieved no discount as I wasn't considered in the motortrade,although on here purely because I now own my own business within the motortrade it is now considered that anything I do must be trade related and therefore I am a trader and must pay trade rates to advertise.this is at best unfair and at worst a form of discrimination.I understand that you're protecting the members on here as it did get silly before with people advertising shit in their sigs etc. but I don't think it's fair to tar us all with the same brush.I've been mega honest about all this,I've offered people to come and inspect where I've kept the parts ffs!! Once again,thanks for being so polite etc and actually LISTENING to me and don't worry about me getting stressed,I run my own business now so I know all about stress,your descision is your descision and I'll stick by it,but as I've said before,it'll certainly tarnish my impressions of this otherwise excellent website.