silly business sense

just an observation, Dont you think xpats/bulletin/ackroyd etc would have worked out by now that they make buttons on the fact that they charge for ads that can be posted free in loads of other sites, is in fact beyond reason from a business perspective. I'd love to know how many less visitors to the site there are since they brought charging in a few years ago. If I'm right, they'd have lost loads of daily visitors and possible banner ads customers...