I think that a website that would act as a catalog with a single thumbnail representing each of the independants product, which, when clicked upon, would take the prospective customer directly to the independant merchants website. The independants merchants can be just as independant and creative as they would like to be, on their own website, with their own bandwidth and their own merchant account/payment method. Things to discuss would be who would run/host/maintain the website, what kind of format/software to use, what kind of fees would be imposed to have a page on the website, what kind of search/categorization tools will be available etc. What kind of banner rotation system, image sizes, page setups etc. I'd really be happy to discuss this with any and all independant merchants. Maybe I could set up a free forum somewhere to get discussion going. Davo