I'm mostly with hauksdottir on this one, but I just have to utter some more fancy words (please don't take this personal, this are just some general observations).

Money is not a factor in my buying decision (as long as a package is in the usual Poser price range, say from $5 to $35).

The following factors are much more critical:

First the bad:

• Poser products are different then food or clothing. You have to get food and clothing, but Poser products are optional. If I'm not in a buying mood no amount of price reduction or advertising will make me buy stuff.

• No package ever is a "must have", if a vendor or store puts me off I usually don't buy their products. For me all the "Renderosity exclusice" products have to overcome this additional hurdle.

• The first package I buy from a vendor is critical. If it is only so-so, then I usually don't buy from this vendor again.

• Hype and "In Your Face Advertising" put me off.

• I don't need a 27th caucasian female V3 texture (no amount of tattoos and eye colors will change this). There are too many nearly identical texures based on the same "merchant resources". And too often I put a texture in my wish list and 3 days later it is unavailable because of copyright issues. Oh bother!

• If the download size of a package is too big, then I reconsider if I want to burden myself with it. Simple props with ten times the polygons of the unimesh or 1024x1024 (highly pixelated) V3 eye texture maps are just pure bloat. My Runtime folders are too big already.

• If a texure artist can't be bothered to anitalias his promo images, I can't be bothered to buy his stuff. This is just plain bad craftsmanship.

Now the good:

• Some vendors (like BATLAB) update their products with adaptations for new figures. This means I get additional use for older stuff at no additional cost. I'm much more inclined to buy from those vendors.

• If a package meets the following two criterias, then I add it to my wish list:

1. I have a use for it (no girls with +3 Plastic Lips of Pouting for me).
2. The package has a high "Omph" factor. This means unique design and high quality. Sometimes I buy a package right away, but this happens only 2 or 3 times a year.

As a long time Poser-stuff-buyer I became very jaded, so there are some further restrictions:

• I'm not an impulse buyer anymore (in the past I brought too many packages, which just lie dormant on my hard disk because I never use them). So even if a package is in my wish list, it isn't a given that I buy it. Usually I let it simmer until I either need it or it goes on sale. If it goes on sale, I reevaluate the package, sometimes I buy it, sometimes I remove it from my wish list. So sales force my decision, but not always in favor of the product.

• In the long run it is cheaper not to buy not-yet-needed products on sales. If I need a product at a later time, then I might pay more for it, but very often someone else comes out with a better product and I get that instead.

As you can see I have many more reasons not to buy a product. Only if a package can sail around all of those obstacles, I am ready to consider it. But even so there is still enough quality stuff left, so I can spend about $200 a month on Poser products. ;)

You know what is right for you. I know what is right for me.