The simple answer is no. You may purchase whatever you like on bladeforums with a registered user membership. You can NOT list anything for sale with a registered membership though. Aside from the Bladeforum rules though, I offer a $5 discount on every Fiddleback knife you purchase at Fiddleback Fridays simply for having a Gold membership. 4 knives in, its paid for itself. Bladeforums is a very well run and very well moderated forum. This is expensive to the owner, and takes a lot of dedicated volunteer moderators. The first time you see them squash forum drama, you will realize exactly how valuable they are to us all. So, please do upgrade to gold. Not necessary, but much appreciated by myself and the staff here at Bladeforums.