I know it's not exactly the same layout but people notice it's similar to barter's. Maybe people get that feeling like it's an imitation. Like, why use a site that's like the original when the original works fine? Or maybe they're like me and don't need a third trading site to deal with.  I don't know. That's my take on it but I could be totally wrong.

I did notice LT's bundle info page was a lot better than bvg's. It has more info and is separated correctly by tiers which barter should have done.

Like I said, if barter had died I think everyone would have migrated to LT and been happy. But it didn't so now your site feels like a copy/redundant/unnecessary?

What if barter became your site?  Like transfer everything over and both of you could manage it? Traders wouldn't have to juggle another site and we'd all get to use the better layout. Would that be possible?