What is going on here? Trying to look at classifieds.

[tiriaq]

In order to buy a team membership, it is necessary for the member to identify himself. Scammers are disinclined to do this.
CGN goes out of its way to keep fraud out of the EE. Most members are appreciative.

[adamthebad]

Membership fees are but one way to monetize an online community.

Two main strategies here:

Allow members to join for free and encourage them to ‘upgrade’ to paid membership.Charge a one-off application fee just to get in.

I recommend strategy 2.

If you charge someone to join your community you weed out everyone but the most willing and the most enthusiastic.

No more tire-kickers.

You get an immediate cash contribution and you get a member who is far more motivated.

An added bonus:

You get to spend time managing and developing the community, not ‘encouraging’ members to upgrade.

[Boomer686]

This is kind of a "Catch 22" type of site from what i have seen so far. They make you wait to gain access and say it is helping with fraud with an 8-10 day wait or longer or if You want to "pay" a fee (which makes it commercialized) and get in maybe in within 1 day (and its not hard to see past this either as almost every Canadian guy/gal loves a ballistic toy) so it is kinda designed to play on your emotions a bit...pay now and your in or wait the 8-10 days or longer if someone happens to look at your profile and flip a coin, pull a straw and all the planets line up just right you may get in.

I'd love to know where you get your information........

[NickVR]

Necro thread..

[adamthebad]

in this forum and its not whine or complaint....and i do have the have a 15 and others...just a lousy drawn out wait time with no fool proof way of combatting the evil element or the fraudulent...a necro thread...not that either

[8x68]

It is what it is dude. Take it or leave it. Do you need your safe space now for thumb sucking?

[PinkyPlinker]

The EE is provided as a service. You do not have an automatic “right” to access it, it is not a government service. Someone pays money to keep this site going, if you don’t want to contribute then STFU and wait patiently for access to be granted.
Good things are worth waiting for, and in this case, paying for.

[Boomer686]

Links provided, suggestions made. We are done here.