Frank I do not think you make money when I click on your links?
I really think this is all a non issue and MY point is still that joraft has a right to his own opinions and others should not tell him they do not care or what not.
He is technically correct whether anyone cares or not. Marc may not be a Festool Dealer, but his site is a commercial site designed to make money and I applaud him for that.
And Frank you also post a heck of a lot of pictures to this forum and very few off the site and are not a business here giving away tools. So I fail to see the comparison to you and Marc. It's apples and oranges. Marc's low posts are what make it really appear bad, even if it is not.
Why does Matthew not want ads here. Why is he so adamant about certain things on this forum. Because he has a totally different view on how to help the Festoolians then Marc. Neither are wrong, but I know they do not mix well as this thread indicates. And if 50 people did what Marc did in the next day is it a problem then? What if the same person owned all the 50 sites. He just made what Matthew got to date for the entire forum in one day(small exaggeration). Why does Mathew not do this, linking us to video that have ten or twenty ads on them, instead of just posting them here? Because he does not like the format and what it brings to a forum(educated guess).
That is what joraft is trying to stop before it starts. I am not faulting him for that, even though again it is NOT an issue for me personally.
By the way your cottage is awesome. I can only hope someday to make and save enough to get a property and cottage like that when I retire and then leave it for my kids. I doubt I ever will, but I can aspire too.
Nickao