Ok my two cents for the merchants out there...

Between Platinum Club pricing and DAZ's giving away base meshes for free - they have devalued the Poser market. As a consumer I'm grateful for the falling prices, but I do feel bad for Poser content developers. It takes a LOT to prep a product for Poser, Poser customers are notoriously lazy and they want their products to be 'click and render'. Geez the Poser community even complains about how FREEBIES are packed - what do you think they're going to expect from a product they are actually paying for? lol

For two years now DAZ has been selling us the same mesh over and over again. Oh yeah it's reshaped, and regrouped and the JPs are tweaked but it's still the same Unimesh-based mesh. Then after they recouped their development costs they release the base mesh for free, making it almost impossible for other figure developers to sell their own figures for what they're actually worth as far as development time is concerned.

Props, hair, clothing textures and skin textures going for $1.99 - why am I going to buy similar products for $10 or more? They can afford to sell products for less then what they're worth because they have other sources of income such as the price of PC membership. Merchants like the ones in this thread can't.

Also the market is saturated. Everybody and their mother is a merchant nowadays. He's a merchant, she's a merchant, wouldn't you like to be a merchant too? lol

Don't blame the customer for being 'spoiled'. My one goal in life is to avoid an argument with my husband over how much I spend on my hobby ;)