I am not arguing that top sellers do not pay for the bandwidth, but my point is that to increase the quality of products on Renderosity is not a simple matter of dropping the poor sellers and keeping the top sellers. That will result in a market place filled with proven sellers, kill all attempts at innovation, and remove the entire range of niche market products. The resulting marketplace will look like a fashion boutique for Vicky. New artists and merchants will find it impossible to get established, and will eventually lead to a stagnation of the marketplace. My point is that to increase the quality of products a different measurement has to be found than "sells more than ten copies". If someone is happy to make a brilliant product that will sell five copies, then he should be free to do so. The marketplace and the forces of capitilism will eventually move that item to the warehouse and off the site, but if the maker was happy with his five sales, then why deny him the right to sell? The same forces will also drive a poor product out of the marketplace. What is really needed is better testing. For example: Failing my product because it said "The files in this product...." instead of "All the files in this product...." is not funny. Failing my product because all the files where not listed in the file listing is not funny either, especially when I resubmitted the same product the next day, without any changes, and it was passed (I resubmitted it because neither me nor my two beta testers could see what files were missing from the listing). But it is funny that neither of the two people who tested this product found that my product only worked in Poser 5 and 6, because my files referenced a "Glass Environment Map" that is included in Poser 5 and 6 but not with Poser 4, and my product was advertised to work in Poser 4. The first Poser 4 user who bought it found that error. So we need better testing, and that will increase the time taken to test, the cost of testing, and the level of skill of testers has to be increased. This is money that needs to be spent. Or very soon this place will just be a poor man's Turbo Squid, were you can pick up good and bad models for a song, with no way of knowing what is good or bad. Rating system? Recommended products? More honest reviews? Proper Rendo investigation of complaints against a product instead of referring us to the merchant? I don't know, and that is not my job to decide, but I do agree that the quality of testing needs to be improved, and not by some system of "it sells so it must be good". Helgard

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