Throwing my two cents to the mods since this post may get deleted as well.
Expecting buyers to pay for 'Patron' to be able to PM sellers is odd as not everyone of them is likely to go through a deal due to various reasons. Not to mention, sellers maybe missing out on potentially better deals. A couple of GPU deals I have been following havent found sellers yet despite having seemingly competent price. My post of "PM me" was deleted and I cant help but think the sellers of these threads could have sold their stuff way earlier if not for this.