"what's the difference between buying a music cd and then giving it to a friend, and buying a Poser item, and then giving it to someone, provided you give them the only copy? " Technically, the difference is in the license. From a practical point of view, the differece is in how the price structure is set up. CDs are priced in such a way that they'll still make a reasonable profit even if they are re-sold or handed on. Poser products aren't. We had a thread in the merchant forum the other day talking about what we thought was a good level of sales. The general consensus was that if you sell more than 100 copies of something (over it's total lifetime in the store) then that's stellar performance for a product. To use myself as an example, I have only one product (out of 16) that has sold more than 100 copies. Many of them have sold fewer than 20 copies. The three lowest sold less than 10 before they were removed from the store. Out of the 1067 merchants at renderosity, I'm currently ranked at number 81 in terms of number of sales, so I'm doing better than 90% of merchants. Given the amount of work involved in making Poser products and the low number of sales that even a merchant in the top 10% of renderosity merchants can expect, the prices charged for Poser products are already ridiculously low. For most of us, there's no room to suddenly make licenses transferable without also raising prices to compensate. So would you rather buy a license that covers you and your friend even if you don't ever pass on your old unwanted product to him, or would you rather just pay for a license for yourself and give up on the idea of ever passing it to somebody else? I don't think I've ever come across a greedy merchant. The ones I know do it because they love Poser, not because they love money. On the other hand, I do come across greedy people in the Poser community - people who complain about free stuff ("Why isn't there a tutorial for this?", "Why doesn't this model fit Vicki as well as Posette?" etc) and people who want to be one of only 50 owners of a piece of skilled handiwork that took 50 hours and some very expensive software to make and also want 24 hour lifelong support, but want all of it for the price of a burger at McDonalds.

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