Rules are in place for everyone.
While feedback and length of membership helps your sale it doesn't change the fact that rules will be enforced evenly.
The day I or another staff member allow you to skirt the rules based on feedback and the sale goes south for whatever reason then we get questioned as to why it was allowed.
Hell, we get questioned without the sale going south as to "Why I have to have it and he doesn't"
Sorry but that's the way it is.
You would think that older and long time members would embrace the fact that we are trying to make this place better. It may save one of you from getting burnt one day. Instead you bitch about it.