ya know... Earlier it was mentioned that the only reason so and so sells here is because here they'll sell 500 copies in a year while elsewhere it'll be 3. An exaggeration, yeah, but they were trying to make a point. Let me make one: Black and Decker sells 30% of its inventory through 1 retailer. The other 70% comes from a lot of other ones. THe one retailer gives them nothing other than shelf space. Many of the others give them shelf space, special featuring, and more. Black and Decker pulled out of that one retailer entirely. Sales only dropped 13%. And rebounded higher the following year. WHen customer's found out where they were. Hmmm. It's also mentioned how lots of people don't agree with the Store Admin team's decision regarding the anime figures. Strenagely enough, when I disagreed withthe store admin team about some things a few years back, I went off and started my own store. Gee -- it's paid for itself and been around for two years and we aren't half bad at all for a site with over 300 products and a hard working team of people. Heck, we're even interested in merchants ourselves, and have an applicationa nd all that cool stuff. And I'll betcha that customers would follow ya if ya went there. www.oddditty.com Or poser pros. Or Faerie wylde. Or Animotions. Or 3D Commune. Or Vanishing Point. Or Polymage. Or... You have more choices, more options, more places than just here. TO heckle Karen for being a messenger (she's only a tester, I note, and not part of the store team) is improper. She was not rude. She may have been a bit stand offish -- sorta like the messenger who notes the soldiers drawing their swords might be. She has, indeed, stated the facts of the matter. THis was announced a while back. They gave the people time. They followed through. Hell, I don't have access to the merchant forum (I'm an admin of a competing brokerage according to Renderosity's store team, and yet despite offering people more features than rosity, I'm not truly competing according to the owner of the company: Rosity logic) and I know that. I'm occasionally asked why I have no new products. Truth is, I have lots of new products. Just none here. And I'm quite happy with the way sales are going. Sixus1 completely pulled out of Renderosity -- they are still around, and doing quite well, I hear. So, Well, I'm sorry, folks. I can understand the frustration and anger of the lack of warning that Renderoisty provided to the customers. But the merchants had warning, and they all have had enough experience to know that dang, but you ain't gonna change their minds once they's decided. Half a store, all of a store, multiple stores. Oh, and it has diddly to do with paypal or the credit card companies. If it did, I surely wouldn't be using it. What it is is that renderosity is cut off from the people who don't know anything about Poser or 3d art becuase, gee, they are on more "porn" lists than anyone would ever dream of -- and almost entirely because of the whole boobies in the face thing. And in the US, being on a porn list means that public services -- libraries and schools, notably -- can't allow access to you if they recieve public funds. Sorta sucks, when the market is growing around you and you can't get a piece of the growth cause your suppliers are getting you cut off from the market. In any case... I don't think that they are underage. I don't allow nudity in the main images, either -- only pop ups. I also don't do a lot of things that are "common practice" -- all becuase I disagree with them. But disagreeing with someone doesn't mean they are wrong. It just means I disagree. Go on, have your September at Christmas time. (dang, Karen -- couldn't they have picked a better time to do this than the two weeks that everyone is doing something other than hanging out at rendo? LOL)

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)