It is cool that you gave it a try, Rich.
There seems to be two ways to finance a website like this one -- ads, or user subscriptions -- and you're offering users a choice between either one as they like. Hard to see how things could be better than that for us users.
There's another model on which there are no Google ads, and use is free for buyers but sellers pay a subscription fee from $22 to $125 per month. That's apparently a way to encourage commercial breeders and large scale flippers to dominate, which hopefully everyone agrees is not how the entire hobby should look.
If you start a thread about axing the discussion sections, I'll try my best to make the case that they should stay.
