Gold Membership fee now go up to $40.00?

Its 51 cnd and i wasnt going to renew but all i get is spam on here if not gold . this will be my last year i think everytime you turn around your getting nickle and dimed to death.everything keeps going up but my pay .

what kind of spam are you getting? i'm not a gold member. ( i will never pay for a car related forum. doesn't make sense to me.) and i don't get any spam here.. if you run a firefox or google chrome with an ad block and pop up blocker you shouldn't see any of the ads.