I'm a vendor and I have five small questions that will help me when planning new products:

1. What products would you like to see in the marketplace?
2. What products are you tired of seeing?
3. Where do you start browsing for products?
4. What to you value the most in a product?
5. What bothers you the most when trying a product you just bought?

thanks a lot for your opinion

My Store

Deskar

1. Hair for male models. More clothing for male models and more casual clothing in general. Something characters can wear when they are not on a sex swing.

2. Pin-up poses! Would be nice to see more everday type things.
    

3. I regurlary check the new stuff like once every 2-3 days and use the search engine if I'm trying to find something specific.
    

4. I guess quality and honesty. Just like everyone, but there's enough information provided by the merchants that you should know exactly what you are getting.
    

5. Like above I'd make sure the product is pretty close to what I want and what morphs are included and whatnot.
    

1.) Props, scenes (landscapes), vehicles (Stuff worth spending, needs for poser).
2.) Tired of V3, V4 textures, a hill, a mountain, small confined scenes, a tiny city (few buildings), a building, a house.  
3.) Vehicles, props, huge scenes.
4.) Honesty, support, updates when needed to be.
5.) Product no longer available, merchant not around.

Image shows an example of what I mean for a landscape. Althought I did purchase this one, it is about 600,000 polys and it is hard in poser, although I am able to load it up and render using it. Reason: to many hills, ridges. I tried to get it into wings3D and remove some of that to about 200,000 polys or less if successfull. The texture is awesome, that I can use it on any landscape mesh, I have made. Problem: Flat city in center of the texture. I will have to edit, but will take along time. The texture is 1491x1118. If a vehicle or human character (M3, V3) where to stand on it, they will be smaller than a dot in image. Need landscape like this, but lower poly for aircraft, vehicles (animation scene).  I like the hills, mountains on outskirts of mesh to hide border of mesh, some in center, or around. Does good.

1. What products would you like to see in the marketplace?

original sci-fi clothing and props. (i.e. no "fan art" stuff)

1. What products are you tired of seeing?

impracticle clothing. i.e. high heal boots, armor that doesnt cover, etc.

1. Where do you start browsing for products?

Content paradise (there store includes many other's stores so its just eaiser to go there), DAZ, PoserPros

1. What to you value the most in a product?

MC6 files, use of the material nodes

1. What bothers you the most when trying a product you just bought?

Converting RSRs to PNGs. especally when the product is for a P6 or P7 figure.
baked in specular/hilights.

1. Anything original. Real world clothing would be cool.
   2) Endless V3/V3 characters - these give you store blindness. 
   3) front 3 pages of most poser stores. 
   4) price and useablity.

2. For Product: one that doesn't work straight away. 

3. For vendors: rudness when asking for help. ones that ignore you. Vendors that actively soliict good reviews. fortunately very rare. Most vendors are absolutely brilliant.

4. Advertisng: 'dishonest' promos. A level of postwork is valid. But showing stuff thats not included then noting it in 3 point high text somewhere on the 3rd promo is annoying. 
    
   Above all else, a good written description - even a short one about EXACTLY whats included would really help. 

Example:  tonight I saw 2 great products, but they don't say what you get. 
One promo for a pose pack said 60 L/R. Is that 30 poses swapped to form 60 or 60 original ? 
The other clothing set was jst a series of large promos on another site which my security blocked on 1.  

So that was no sales to those 2 vendors.    

Thanks to all for your comments and ideas. It's important for everybody that an idea or suggestion to post it here. This thread may be visited by other vendors anytime.

Thanks again.
Deskar

This thread may be visited by other vendors anytime. So true :) Thank you for asking the questions in the first place. It's good to know what the customers want and expect.

Quote - 5) For vendors: rudness when asking for help. ones that ignore you. Vendors that actively soliict good reviews. fortunately very rare. Most vendors are absolutely brilliant.

Very good point.  The few bad apples who do stuff like that make me hesitant to contact other vendors I don't know. :-(  Fortunately being a vendor myself, I know a lot of us.  But what about people who don't?

Quote - I'm a vendor and I have five small questions that will help me when planning new products:

1. What products would you like to see in the marketplace?
2. What products are you tired of seeing?
3. Where do you start browsing for products?
4. What to you value the most in a product?
5. What bothers you the most when trying a product you just bought?

thanks a lot for your opinion

My Store

Deskar

1. I would like to see more historical male clothing, especially for G2, Kyoji 1 and Apollo. I would also like to see some motion capture sets - there haven't been any new ones on Renderosity in ages. 2) I'm tired of seeing yet another sci-fi or fantasy clothing set for vicky that just makes her look like a slut. 3) I check Renderosity for new products most days - Daz and Content Paradise every 2 or 3 days - Runtime DNA and Poser Pros less so (every couple of weeks or so). I used to check RDNA and PP more often, but RDNA has hardly turned out ANYTHING for male figures since they ditched Apollo almost a year ago (they stopped supporting M3 in a major way long before that). And Poser Pros has never been the same since all the big merchants left. If I'm in the market for sci-fi clothing, I'll stop by xurge3d.com, and if I'm in the market for sci-fi/fantasy settings I'll stop by andi3d.com. 4) Things that I value most in a product are attention to detail (I don't like sloppy seam lines, or poses that remove morphs), good textures (that really sets a product apart for me) and an indication of how the product can be used (e.g. an ad for a texture set should have at least one pic of one of the textures used on an object). Clothing should have support for basic morphs (e.g. for M3 we should have Muscular 1-3, Heavy, Young, etc.). Motion capture sets should ideally keep the character in one location (i.e. not be linear), but that's just a personal preference for how I use motion capture sets. 5) Things I hate in products (other than those outline above in answer 4): pose folders that begin with !!!!! (or 'am I at the top now?'); generically named readme files (e.g. readme.txt) that I have to rename in order to keep in my poser folder; folder names that don't match the product name (it makes the pose or prop folders difficult to find in the runtime - same goes for texture folders, actually).