ok, not to rain on anyone's party here, but I just read the marketplace agreements. hmm, the only clause that could concern the merchants forum is the etools. yet from the sentence structure, it's obviously only the marketplace/ order processing and the ebot for contacting and being contacted by the people that have bought the merchant's products. nowhere does it mention the merchants forum, or any indication that the merchants forum exists. but, with there having been an established precident(sp?) of ALL merchants having access to the forum, even round one could cost bondware everything in a court case. thhis round, of banning non pronciples, would definately have bondware filing for bankruptcy, after paying the huge court costs and settlements for breach of contract. sorry Clint, but this is a very, very bad business move, and if I was a merchant and was locked out, well, I would not accept anything less than bondware's bankruptcy after court settlement ordered. and I'm sure there are enough merchants that will feel as strongly to file such a law suit for these actions. just my opinion.