Sharen, I stay away from the Andy Griffith and cottage stuff just because you all do such a wonderful job at it. I don't feel that you are forcing me out of business. If I did anything along your lines I would feel like I am cutting into your business. The pool is still very big and a lot of things have not been covered. Don't let anyone tell you that you need to get out of the way and let them have a market you established in the first place. A lot of my early 3ds freestuff is hosted at reebo's meshyard. He didn't quit, he got a full time paying job and no longer updates the site as a hobby. Quite a few of the freesites are abandoned because someone got a better offer. They're gone because they succeded somewhere else rather than failed at modeling. I admit I was a little non plussed for about half a day recently. I had just decided to update my frankslab freestuff as a poser object. I finished the castle walls when kurokuma and CryptoPooka released their excellent poserstein set. They had done all the other electrical dodads I was going to do for my expanded set. I thought about it and realised I hadn't modeled any of the items yet. I didn't fire off a heated letter cussing them out for interfering with what I was about to do. There's no way they would know what I was thinking anyway. Instead of modeling more electrical dodads I made a Chemistry table and an operating table. I also delayed the release until after I finished my Temple of Set. When my set comes out if anyone wants electrical gizmos for it they should buy the poserstein set. I'm not making any now. Rather than getting pissed about it or throwing away what I had done I just took a step to the right for the people who clearly got to the market first. I appreciate how hard it is to start a business. I also would hate to have to feed myself on my for-sale items. Still, it's a kick to get a check every month for something I finished last year and haven't touched since. I hope to eventually work up to where I am getting little bits from a lot of items that ammount to serious money. I think your letter writers expected an immediate big payoff. It's wrong for them to say your freestuff put them out of business. Don't get upset. You were here first and have a right to be where you are.