I find it sad that capitolism strikes even sites like this. The knife forum is still free and I,ll be moving over there. I will not support a site that makes money from its advertisers and then wants to charge $30.00 for membership. I did donate to the www.huntamerica fund but the circumstances there were different and it was only $10.00. I find $30.00 to be greedy. Its actions like this that hurt our hobby of knife collecting and trading,I have never sold a knife here but have bought them in the past but will go to e-bay and www.knifeforums.com from here on in. Actions like this is not what America is made of, I for one will not be nickel and dimed to death as I said $30.00 is outrageous and stinks of greed. I enjoyed this site but it is far from the only show in town, so it is with sorrow I am visiting for the last time as I feel if I do visit, this gives the site hits to try to intice advertisers to make even more profit. Its not like this site does'nt have income as it does from advertising and money generated from sales. I will also cease doing business with the SKS1 as well. I wish all well that continue to use this site but this is a personnal choice of ethics.