What would you do if the forum had a subscription fee (to post classifieds, etc)?

Also in terms of protecting buyers could we not do something much like fleabay where by the money isn't received untill both the seller and receiver both say so?

i think that issue was sorted on the "sale gone wrong" thread- the number of cases where there is any sort of problem are very few compared to the thousands of succesful transactions, putting up a system like that would be a lot more work for VB