I enjoy the banners...if they don't move. I, too, have purchased items because of banners. (I never click on banner ads...except at Poser sites. :-)

But I find Flash and animated banners so incredibly annoying that I've blocked them. It's easy with Firefox. Just block *.swf and *.gif files coming from Rosity's ad server. Then you get the static banners but not the moving ones.

So if your ad is a JPG, I'll see it. Otherwise, well, there's more real estate on my screen. :-)