I have to agree with a good deal of what has been said here and in fact, she should be very grateful toanyone who pointed out that she might have been skating on thin ice and ultimately find herself in a far worse situation than she apparently is in currently. I believe that the majority of merchants are well aware of the consequences of publicly disclosing correspondence between themselves and Renderosity and that doing so is not only unprofessional but will see you shown the door in short order.

There are plenty of merchants who do not use merchant resource kits to create their characters and I'm one of them. Every single one of my characters is done from scratch and it took me two years of gut wrenching hair pulling before I would have dared to ask anyone to buy anything I created.

If, as someone has stated, Syltermermaid has 40 characters available in the relatively short time that she has been a merchant, there is no way on god's green earth, she created those characters without relying more than heavily on merchant resources. If you look at the readmes...something you should do before you purchase any product...you will find that she has used the same resources over and over and over again, hence the similarity in her characters. In many cases, even the promo information is the same save for the changing of a name to reflect the current character and worded to imply that there are no resources were used which I find disturbingly misleading. But if that floats your boat and you don't care, then that's fine, but remember you can purchase these resources and do the same thing yourself.

Now let's take it one step further. Let's say for instance that a merchant...any merchant...uses the same eye resource kit for every product. Either they don't know how to alter those eyes or they choose not too for whatever reason and you're willing to pay how many times for the same thing ? You now likely have that entire resource pack and you probably paid ten times what you would have paid had you purchased the resource yourself in the first place! I honestly don't see the logic in that.

There are many talented artists who use merchant resources to create beautiful characters and you would never know. To do that can take just as many painstaking hours and talent as doing it from scratch and those people have my respect. Resource kits are a great way to learn how to do things yourself but they were never intended to be used as an end product.

I think it's sad that the market is so flooded with them now and so many seem to think they're a fast track to being a successful merchant with a fat bank balance without having to actually learn anything when in fact the reverse is true.

STORE:
http://market.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=KymJ
GALLERY:
www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=KymJ