Becco_UK, the nature of your query implies that you are a member of the Platinum Club at DAZ - for which you pay a fee. One of the advertised benefits of paid membership of said club is: - "Members Only" section in the DAZ|Forum If you are a Platinum Club member and you are banned from that forum section, you are being denied a service for which you have paid, and there is possibly a breach of the contract between DAZ and yourself. Of course, if this is the case, pursuing this angle may result in the ending of your Platinum Club membership as well; and perhaps your general store access. I suppose it depends on how important you feel the value of your relationship with DAZ is. 'Not very', going from a casual observation of this thread. I can't comment on the justification of your situation (not being aware of it beyond this thread), but I will say that the mix of 'amateur' and 'professional' in the running of the DAZ forums has concerned me from day 1 - and is the main reason I don't go there much. Indeed, I wrote to Dan Farr this very evening concerning another (unrelated) untidy mix of amateur and professional I spotted elsewhere. I kept it behind the scenes, though. I guess I still value my relationship with DAZ a little.