Ohhh, I LOVE suggestion #1!
It would be great both for buyers and vendors =)

And #2... good news: you can have that already!
You have to add a vendor to your favorite vendors. Currently you can do that only by adding them in your homepage.
Which brings up a suggestion I was going to make (I made it some time ago)... we used to have a link inside a vendor's product to add that vendor to ones favorite vendors. It would be great if we could have that back, AND the possibility to add a vendor to favorite's in one vendor's store.

Barb

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