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I agree with Connie that this is just a wee bit of an exaggeration here.  But even if it weren't an exaggeration -- so what?  Would that (grossly overstated) state of affairs translate into the specious idea that "nobody can make any money doing this"?  I happen to know people who are -- personal knowledge revealing the weakness in your argument.

And they aren't all top sellers, either.

Please point out where I said that no one makes money at this. The difference is in how much is made, and the motivations behind it.

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Free stuff is great.  I love freestuff.  Many vendors provide it to us on a regular basis.

Tell me -- if free stuff is so bad for business, then why is Rendo hosting it?

I have instead a question for you: Tell me what percentage of Poser freestuff posted here doesn't require purchasing anything beyond Poser (or downloading D|S).

It's a shrinking number, especially when compared to long ago.

Quote - And a website which wouldn't exist without the vendors providing the financial wherewithal to run it.

Really? Why do you insist that such a thing must be true? After all, how many consignment or direct merchants sell things from sites such as Tom's Hardware? Slashdot? Drudge Report? Craigslist? MySpace? Facebook? These sites make quite a bit of bank on advertisement alone... and Craigslist doesn't even do that, IIRC.

Each of the aforementioned sites dwarf Renderosity in bandwidth and traffic diversity by sheer orders of magnitude. Yet for some odd reason they scrape by quite nicely without having a store to rely on for support.

So, tell me - why are you so certain that a "Marketplace" is so necessary again? :)

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - BTW - volume DOES make up for high price.  It's a business model which has succeeded again and again.  Toyota is a much bigger company than Rolls Royce is.

Never said otherwise. OTOH, when you've got 400 different lingerie sets to choose from for a given mesh, you simply don't get the volume that you would otherwise have if there were only four, y'dig?

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Hmmm....I seem to recall you saying something else.......but leave it.

No, that is exactly what I said - sits right in the post.

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