"Also, it may be helpful to know that more than 94% of our active members use the default off-white background. However, we do understand that, unfortunately, this particular color may not be desirable to all of our members." My first thought when seeing this is that at least 80% of those members are not truly active (just because you have an account that doesn't make you active). Probably 20% of those people even see the marketplace on a regular basis. I would think that most people who truly participate (post in gallery/forums and/or use marketplace) on this site have personalized their screens. Personally the background color hurts my eyes and since there seems to be no forthcoming solution such as personalizing the colors to something less harsh my only option is just to add merchants that I like to my favorites list and then directly purchase that way and if I miss new merchants oh well. This sucks since I usually visit the marketplace 3-5 times a day. I guess if there's a great product out there I'll see it in a gallery image so maybe I won't miss out too much. I think this way new merchants lose out but market research is market research...I think an opinion poll completed by members would probably have different results. I think the renderosity staff has done a good job of responding to comments and making certain changes but as to this matter I simply don't understand why allowing those who truly have issues with the color scheme to change it as they see fit is a problem. If research says white is best then that should be the default not the only option especially when the majority of members disagree. Jenn