Richard, I feel your frustration brother.

Perhaps a more accurate way to show availability is to say that selling items on MAAST is a privilege of current charter members. The 'current' clears up a bit.

But Justin is absolutely on target. It's a nightmare to distinguish between who can at what post count not to exceed a certain dollar amount with or without a tax ID yadda yadda.

Then to couple that wit the sponsors who perceived individuals buying colonies and then splitting it up for an obvious mark up... There was a rather lengthy discussion regarding someone buying a frag and fragging the frag into smaller frags to offset the cost.

At some point we just have to say stop. Perhaps it's not the best choice or maybe it is. I'm a noob here myself but I've seen things go back and forth a few times.

The BOD has nothing to gain by this, in fact they don't participate in any of the raffles to remain objective. It was done solely to make moderating easier for the volunteers on the mod team and in an attempt to keep everyone (most everyone) happy.