If one wants to see the overt commercialization of our community in all its glory, just look at the front page of just about any Poser site out there. You know as well as I what you'll find: ads. Lots of them. The email newsletters? Ads. Lots and lots of them. Yeah, I know, it takes money to run a site, and merchandise pays for it. But I've gotten to the point where I don't even look at the ads any more. I don't care that someone has come up with the 1,547th armour design for Vicky, let alone the 4,893rd texture "to make her look like a goddess". After last week, my suspicion now is that that 4,893rd texture is based on taking the 2,417th, 1,895th, and 357th "goddess" textures and just putting them together and slapping a twenty-five dollar price tag on it. It has nothing to do with bandwidth in that case; it has everything to do with "well, everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn't I?" I buy on occasion, mostly for Ichiro and Koshini, increasingly rarely for anything else. Like Sparrowheart, I find myself going back into the CDs and finding something in an old runtime that can be retextured and refitted, and that these days is a helluva lot more fun than plunking down the credit card for some thirty-dollar prop that might be amusing for one or two images and then shoved into an archive and forgotten. I guess the bottom line is: the last week really opened my eyes a lot about this community. I feel like I can't trust anything from anyone, most importantly from a vendor. Before, in those grand old days of innocence, you could trust, because you knew in advance that it'd no likely came from another source and got to where it is now with the complete blessing of whoever the now-long-lost originator might have been. Few people worried about leaving a signature on their work, save those who were laying the groundwork to become a merchant. Now, you turn around, and folks are slapping a circle-c on anything that moves. Just my two cents. YMMV.