"I wasn't really comparing CG share to Renderosity. My point was that Free Stuff draws people to a site. It is a postive value. Even the merchant princes of the Poserverse use Free Stuff as a lure for the cash cows".

Don't get me wrong. This isn't an attack on you, but the cash cows can afford it and don't you think they do it to squash competition? Of course this means everyone who has a site now has to have a fantastic freebie section or they won't get the crowds. People even post freebies because they downloaded so many of others. Psycological retardation of the market. Everything happens because profit comes from someplace.

My logic is simple. If you train the customers/vistors to expect a lot for little to nothing then they'll grow to expect it. The sites will have to grab more percentages to compensate the bandwidth fees and site administration. Preasure will grow to move product faster while the merchant makes less and there will be less demand because so much is available for free. Nobody has yet gained a clear upper hand in the freebie wars in the whole "Poserdom". Could it be everybody is losing including the cash cows? People are not just downloading here. They surf around and grab from everywhere to fill all there needs and if they're good never spend a cent. Checkers is a game of losing peices. The last one out wins the game.