Luis, I am glad you stepped forward to speak in this thread, since you are one of the Master Level artists I was speaking of earlier whose situation I am intimately familiar with, and who may indeed someday leave us all the poorer if you pull out of the Poser Industry due to the Depreciation of the Poser Economic situation. I had not felt comfortable naming names, and am glad at least one of you have come forward to speak. Thank you :) In the Poser Community, somewhere along the lines, we all began to live "The American Dream", if you will pardon that expression. You know what The American Dream is, don't you? Find something you love, and then twist it, and strangle it, and torture it, and warp it, trying to make more and more money at it, till you neither love it anymore, nor are making any money at it. It seems to make some feel uncomfortable to have it put flat on the line and said that most Poser artists are making less than 3rd World Sweat Shop "slaves" for their work. I have never been one to avoid the nasty truths just because they are uncomfortable. Though it is true Dialyn that poser assets can indeed be re-sold countless times, if you ask any of us you will find that is really true only in "theory". Products do indeed have a cap on how many they will sell. And that cap is pretty low for most people. The vast majority of merchants whose actual sales statistics I am familiar with sell less than 20 copies of a product in it's lifetime. Again, this is probably the result of too many products in the market, a glut of competition that results in the "needs" and "interests" of the consumer shifting elsewhere more swiftly than in the old days when there was simply less to be had. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer that I can think of. It would be splendid if it were possible to do as you suggest Luis and not set any prices below 5.00 irregardless. But so long as the competition does so, if we do not, then we will slowly wither on the vine till at last the day comes we cannot afford to pay our staff anything, pay our hosting and bandwidth costs, and shut the site down. The problem with the Poser Economic situation being what it is is that we are actually beginning to lose some of the best artists out there. As I said, in this climate, the only ones who can survive in the long haul are the very small minority of Poser Dragons who sell large quantities of goods no matter their prices, these are the ones Anton mentions, and the novice Poser Artists who produce a sort of newbie level work and feel that their sales are just great if they are making 5.00 a week. There is getting to be less and less of a middle ground. And yet, I have no answer. I cannot find the answer no matter how I struggle to think it through. The Great Shaking Out is almost upon us, and perhaps we can hope the market will improve once it is over, but somehow I have my fears it wont... it will just be made up of the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer, and lots of "crap" in the marketplace, interspersed with the few rare gems left. Blech. Now I've gone and depressed myself again :) I had better get back to doing this texture before I begin to cry.