I am astounded. I am a new to geocaching, I have only found about 30 or so and started in May of this year. It amazes me that someone who has a GPSr that costs from $80 - $1000 is complaining about $30 per year, or $2.50 per month, not to mention, you can use the free regular membership. I look at it like this, people allways pay more for milk at the corner store or gas station instead of driving further to the grocery store and standing in long lines. You pay for convenience, and a premium membership gives you just that, convenience. It took me a matter of hours to sign up as a premium member, the fee is cheap at twice the price. I personally am surprised that the fee is not higher. I think that Jeremy and rest of the crew should be highly commended for their efforts. As far as a "listing fee" that is a great way to start eliminating quality caches. The majority of the caches that I have found so far, I am fairly certain, have cost the hider a nominal amount of money to put it together, a large commitment of time to find a good spot, and are committed to maintaining cache.
"That's Just my opinion, I could be wrong"
-Dennis Miller-
Yours in caching
cache.scout