I believe that part of the rationale was that there are members who do not use the forum and so would not have access to the flea market section. I suppose there's some merit to that but really, how hard is it to join the forum? And I wonder how many non-forum users actually use Panjo. I don't know much about the forum software but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a way to allow direct access via a link from the home page to just the marketplace section.