I've never seen any Platinum Club developper show me any tip or trick... As I said, an advertizing gimmick. You don't need it, you don't miss it, it's just there. The really usefull forums are free. There are Member Only Free Items, Member Only Tutorials, and a few other perks in the DAZ PC Member Only Forums. The perk for Passport Members Poser and Shade Forums are more for sharing and talking than support. Everyone should go through the Contact Forms at CP for on Poser or Shade. The Mods will boot Passport Member or other that posts a Support Question in the non Support Forums. The top of the individual Forums have a Sticky that states this in each Forum. The Forums are not for support at CP. Some sneak in, but it is like trying to contact Sales or Tech Support at DAZ using the Forums, even PC members can not do that. There might be a member or a Mod that answers, but most often it is just to tell them to use the Contact Form. Put it this way... CP had no intention of having Support Forums, instead they added these for Passport Members. Something was not denied non passport members, something was added to support them.

ratscloset
aka John