I would also say there is a period of courtesy before releasing a similar product on the market. Case in point: Back in September, I released a Hellhound model for P4/5. It's has a nice run of sales, but is beginning to peter off. Now, MallenLane is preparing to release a hellhound/gargoyle figure (he previewed it in one of the cat threads). Am I irritated? Absolutely not. It's been well over six months, and I doubt I'd sell more than one or two more. In addition, it is a totally different character with completely different geometry, and thus someone may with to purchase both, for some reason. Heck, most of us have at least two different dragons, so why not? However, if this same model had come out, say, three weeks after my Garm hit the stores, I would be highly irritated. I dare say MallenLane is one of the Beastie Masters, and he would have completely blown me out of the water. By the same token, if someone creates a "Gargoyle" made out of the mesh of my hellhound, and put it in the Marketplace, with only minor mesh differences ths week, I would be hopping mad, as mad as Gabe is right now. Similar ideas are one matter. Identical products are a totally different thing.

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