I'd be interested to see one of your designs Varelse?

You're saying that simply because people can afford to pay a listing fee it means their work is better than those who can't? It will cut down on the amount of cheap designs, sure....but what happens to all the people who are looking for a cheap template?

There is nothing to stop me ripping a site or making something of low quality and posting it for sale there, often than not...it's the older and allegedly "more experienced" designers who produce the half baked work and it's the younger designers who are pushing the creativity, if they're now being charged to sell their work, well I find that disgusting.

Sitepoint have changed quite alot recently, first with their sell your site fee, then the domain fee and now this....i've even seen ugly new pop up adverts appearing, it looks to me like they're trying everything they can to make more money.