The cons; (Again, I don’t mean to offense anyone here)

" - Buying a rep;
I found it extremely difficult for a new member to buy on these forums (mostly from m2ms). When I first registered, I did not care much about posting. All I wanted to do is find a good deal, buy it (hopefully as a pre-gen phase), and move on. I did find many interesting/good deals and I need to add that in few cases, I was the first one to contact the seller. I was all ready to proceed with the payment, but it always ended with the seller going with another “more present” buyer. I did not have much problem with any kind of payment, at least, if the seller has some good feedback. All the sellers preferred a VIP member with more posts. "
"I don't know what are you going through or who you are dealing with. Personally, I do my part of research and I'm more or less straight forward when I PM someone. If some members are giving you hard time or this is becoming too stressful, then this is your problem, I can't help you with that. I am still trying to understand the relevance of your post. You took some phrases from my post and replied based on your interpretation while I was tackling completely different issues. "

Hi, You have some strong points of view about a vast diversity of issues and Youīve done a lot of reading, for sure. Luckily I donīt have any issues either, because I like to do a lot of reading as well and only do choose what I want to buy and maintain anyway. As it was fun to reply I just pointed out some issues on why it may be so difficult for a noob to be successful right from the start on m2m. This was a direct answer to several situations You pointed out in the first place. After the first purchase from a TD any noob getīs a lot of experience and changes his attitude, itīs just part of it all, without this experience the benefits and good parts of m2m including the pricing cannot be judged and evaluated well enough.

As I already pointed out it was interesting and refreshing to read about Your first impressions, as this kind of information gets lost over time when Youīre around long enough.