Casette opened this issue on Jan 20, 2007 · 433 posts
pjz99 posted Sat, 03 February 2007 at 5:14 PM
Ahh, but who benefits from me putting things in the gallery? I get a smidgen of self-gratification for whatever reason - Rendo gets a ton of money from sales. It's self-referential advertising, don't kid yourself. It costs money, sure, and it's offered free - do I make money off of it? No. Does Rendo? Yes, certainly. What do you think the production credit link feature is there for? All the features offered for free are in support of the marketplace here, which makes tons and tons of cash (myself I've spent nearly $500 here).
Edit: note I use "me" in the greater sense, I'm not so arrogant as to say I, personally, make people buy things with my uberfantstische mad skillz. Overall, the gallery is a major cash cow for the site, that was my point.