The rule is in place to protect the forum members from any Tom, Dick and Harry wanting to offload their items for free, and during these difficult financial times we are finding quite a few people joining just to sell something, and we are really not interested in that type of member. So its 15 for an item and 50 for a car. The rules are not flexible and please note the quality of your posts will be monitored on your way up the amount required, so in other words no spam if there is they will be deleted hence a backward step in your post count.