With all and any due respect, how much does Charley have to do with the site?
Its a very rare day to even hear him mentioned (apart from a "discussion closed" aspect), let alone posting.
I belonged to a motorcycle forum, started by one man, who after a few years sold the bike and drifted away. The forum struggled on for over 5 years following his rules before he finally came back and said he no longer wanted to fund it. So another member took over and updated the site. Its still going strong 15 years later.
My point being, times change. This is a woodworking site, and so anything non woodworking would be automatically banned from the for sale page. You might get woodworking companies advertising, but why would they unless they were offering a discount. In which case, yes please.
And then, why would any junk salesman, who relies on a constant stream of new and unsuspecting customers, give up the countless millions of ebay watchers, to post on a site that has at best a few hundred people who can mostly spot a dud from a mile away?
And any fee however small would pay for the upkeep of the site.
The rule might be Charlies, but has anybody asked him if he is open to altering it?