[gjhobbs]

I'm not one to chime in on a lot of things, but I was one of the members that got pissed about being turned down, and here is my reasoning.

I've been on this site a little over 7 months now, and in my 7 months, I've got nearly 500 postings, and near 80 trades.

While I was turned down based upon one/both of these reasons there are other members who have far less trades than I do, and not quite 1000 posts, but were allowed to join because of having 1000 posts. I'm not pointing any fingers here, but this seemed to me at the time to be more of a "click" thing that you had to know the OP quite well or been around for sometime in order to join.

I'm over the fact of it now, and have already said that I most likely won't participate in these in the future due to the issues of people slacking with shipping their ends out.

I'm more than happy for everyone that does receive whatever they get from this, and thought that it would be an awesome way to build my collection while sharing something with someone else that had something I could give up.

Regardless I'll bow out here, but lump was correct in the sense of it, but also fails in my opinion to realize that this is the internet, and people are going to rant and rave over something, and it seems to have offended him.

Rather than shrug it off and not respond to it, he incited another issue to allow more folks to chim in on England's thread.