The thing is, I'm not willing to spend a bunch of money on models right now even though I'm pretty serious about poser--Vicky and her loot are the only models I've bought. My list of stuff to buy starts with Vue and goes right up to a second computer so my spouse and I don't kill each other trying to share time on this one. So I look at clothing packs on the store and go "sigh..." and realize I don't get to have them, not right now anyway. So it's not that I wouldn't like to have these things for free...'course I would! And I'm NOT a student, I have a good income, so 25 bucks for a model isn't going to kill me....but I need to spend that $25 bucks on "ray dream for dummies" so I make choices. I'm not saying it wouldn't be wonderful if people kept giving stuff away for free, and I think the market will eventually show that only the best stuff will sell anyway...I just don't think we have a right to expect people to give their work away. As for bbay people buying each others' stuff, I would think swapping would be acceptable, unless you have to sign a contract that you'll only distribute via bbay. I think the ones who'll really be affected are those of us who aren't up to that level yet (like myself). And Allie, cheer up, this weekend I'll be working on a nice DARK texture set for Vicky, and it will be totally free. And since I finally bit the bullet and got ray dream, I'm working on a free prop...delenn's headbone... Mary