Well, if setting up a server will actually cost more per item than $7 shipping, Im starting to wonder how DAZ and Rendo can make a profit from all their $5, $10 and even %15 items.

Remember they get "only" 50% of the purchase price, while the other half goes to the merchant. Gee, now we know why Rendo cant afford faster servers. ;-)

Usually, if something is cheap, its the quality that suffers.
But I really cant remember anybody ever complaining about those 4000 X 4000 jpg textures that are standard for character packages as not being high-rez enough.More to the contrary, often people are advised to reduce the texture resolutions for faster renders.

And somehow I doubt Poser 6 would be happy if you tried to render a flock of Ducks with each one having a different 5mb uncompressed pict texture attached.

Now Lynes products DO look nice, but reading jhoaglands post it looks like one has to spend a considerable time converting textures and also creating ones own MATs on top of that to bring them up to current standards.

I can also only second Acadia about international shipping.
A small item sent via airmail MIGHT take a week from the US to Germany, but it also might as easily take two months two arrive. Not to mention import taxes and brokerage fees if the item doesnt "slip through" German Customs.

Most purchases in Poserland are "impulse" purchases, thats just how things are. People see a thing, got the idea for a nice render, and just buy it to use it NOW.
Not in a week or two.
Are we spoilt ?
Not at all. The internet was created to distribute non-physical goods.
Insisting to actually ship a downloadable item is like refusing to make a telephone call and sending a recording of your voice instead.

You might eventually reach the same goal of communicating with the person youd otherwise would have just called, but it will take much longer and be extremely inconvenient.
But then again, some people might think that their voice doesnt sound nice enough through a telephone.

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As for warez, well, Im sure the less sales you have the lesser your risk is of being warezd.
And it looks like Lyne (Despite the quality of their morphs and textures which I dont dispute), does all she can to keep her risk of being warezd as low as possible.

;-)

stahlratte

Message edited on: 02/07/2006 00:00