All of this seems overly complicated and I wish a simple system would be used instead (like the new frog coin currency is already a bit too much when it's potatoes we're trying to sink) but maybe that's just me
I also aggree that fees on things that were free before wouldn't be a good idea, but if it's things like hopping to another town with potatoes when we've used up all our town hops could be nice
As other people's suggested, consumables bought with potatoes would be a good sink, instead of cloting items since those would still be in demand unlike clothing, PAMs are a good exemple for wanted consumables.

I feel like poles are really important for this whole potatoe sink thing, it seems like staff's idea of how it should be and the community's is widely diffrent, I really hope staff listen because this new system is really weird and doesn't seems to be liked by a lot of people, so poles could really help here