You guys don't get it, do you? If there is a rule saying "no ads", then that rule must apply to all merchants touting their own wares. All merchants have been notified, especially those who keep violating this rule. I don't care if a merchant is sainted or loathed, if the product is pure gold or drek... if the post is an ad, it belongs in Product Showcase Forum. This post is clearly an ad. It even starts by saying that there are even more ways to pay for her products. An ad is an inducement to buy. This post is designed to get buyers salivating into their shoelaces. Fair is fair. Otherwise, you must allow all ads... and the Poser Forum would once again be swamped under piles and piles of the stinkiest, most flamboyant, and omnipresent spam. It would all flicker and bounce, too, just like those annoying banners. We have been swamped before, under pages and pages where most of the posts have been product announcements. Do you really want to be buried under spam again? Especially when there is a perfectly good forum for these posts? A forum where the merchant can put 20 images in a thread if she wants to? Where she can have just as much give and take, or enthusiastic support as she wants? Merchants are desperate in these tough economic times, but they must all play by the same rules. I have no respect for those who don't. Carolly