While I could appreciate that buying goods and services from the flyertalk store is helpful, what I would really like to pay for is the value that I accrue from flyertalk. Indeed, shirts, pins and otherwise all have production costs and so while I might spend $30-$40 on these things, no where near that would go to support this board net expenses. So I would rather see some first notice or something club that would be a closed bluetin board of special promos and discounts. That would be money!