Just to clarify. my post is not about a fee.
If you use the Classifieds, whether to look or buy/sell....its a great place. If you choose not to because of a fee involved, to each their own. Nothing wrong with that, stick to your values.
For those that do use the classifieds, its awesome. Like I said, where else do you buy a bow and get a free quiver with it without knowing until the bow arrives?
Or after a sale, end up setting up a hunt somewhere the upcoming season with the person you just dealt with?
How about getting a surprise bow mailed to your door free because you are injured, made a comment on a bow in the classifieds that you liked the bow but couldn't consider it because of your heath/injury? Then a 25# old bow shows up because someone gives a damn and wants to help you keep shooting?
I threw some extras in one time for a guy and he goes and sends me a knife he made himself.
I sent some extras to a trad brothers kids once and the photos of them all with giant smiles and thank you signs is the best thing I ever received.