Are you all done or does anyone else want to weigh in? I thought I would be in a minority but a minority of one? If you're all that keen to pay over the odds for stuff then you are all fair game I suppose!
It's unfortunate that almost everyone missed the point: I wasn't having a go at people selling or trading their own items, I was highlighting the fact that the list is used as a marketing tool by people selling stuff on a more or less full time basis. Someone asked why these "professional traders" still contributed answers to questions posed by list members. The answer to that is so obvious that it doesn't require an explanation-or am I just an old cynic?
Anyway, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em was what I was always told so I'll enter into the spirit, have a clear out of some goodies I've picked up at the going rate at cycle jumbles in the UK, double or triple the price (I kid you not) and share them with you-assuming that anyone will want to buy from me now. Alternatively, I might just pick something up at a fair price on Ebay, add a good whack to it and share it with you all...
Freddy "Off to join the Taliban" Benjamin