Quote - Borders is a nice place... but I prefer Powells... Here in Portland, they have a big bulletin board where you can post advertisements for anything... including what Powells sells.

When I've released a product in the past, I posted notices at Daz, PoserPro's, and here at Renderosity. These products have been for Daz, PoserPro's, RawArt3D, and... wait for it... Renderosity. I've never had a post taken down at any site. I've never had anyone complain, either the store management or staff.

Now, if I have a Renderosity product, I fell like I won't be able to post at other sites.. not because they ban off store advertising, but because it would be unfair, since I can't post HERE about things from other sites. So this isn't just holding me back here, it's also going to hold me back on my Renderosity product advertising.

There's two ways a store can go when they face new competition... they can close up, make new rules, and try to keep their current base by limiting contact with other stores.... Or they can open up, be MORE friendly, relax the inhibiting rules, and become the nice place to shop and go to. They can make it more attractive for vendors to sell there, and for customers to feel at home...

I do have a question though... if I were to make a supporting product for someone else's item at another store, like a texture set for some Daz clothing, does this mean I can't post a link to the original product in the Merchant's showcase? I'd want their sales to increase, since it would mean that MINE would increase here.

I don't make much, either in cash or the number of products. I choose where I'll release something by what figure it's for, the type of product, or the product it supports. These new limits make it much less attractive to try to sell here, and I think other vendors feel the same way.

I completely see what you're saying, and I understand why you don't get your posts restricted, as well.  You release your products few and far between, and you're a modeller.  It takes longer to model than to create textures or light setups.  This isn't a jab or meant as one, because I completely have LOADS of respect for anyone that can model anything that looks like what it's supposed to be.  It takes a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time to get it right. 
The fact is this...many merchants ARE being restricted at where they can post.  DAZ has changed its' forum advertising policy to 1 advertisement per week.  In cases where merchants work in batches, which are a lot of them, this can hurt their advertisement possibility.  As I stated before, RDNA and CP don't even offer offsite merchants a chance to advertise their wares.  (And, quite frankly, if you check out the Marketplace Showcase forum, products sold there were the two biggest stores advertised there.  Not DAZ, not Rendo, RDNA and CP.)  Poser Pros is no longer a functional store (the forums still work, right?), and ArtZone is much too massive at the moment to be used as a functional advertising device.  Maybe once it's truly streamlined, it'll be easier to use for BOTH merchants and buyers.  At the moment, the best they can offer are forums and groups...which are hard to navigate for a lot of people who are used to the PHP style forum.
The fact is, we're the last of the large sites to create any kind of restrictions on advertisements.  We didn't do it solely for our bottom line.  Like I've said, it's really not fair to the vendors here who work hard on their product and get LESS free advertisement AT THE SITE THEY'RE SELLING ON than other sites are getting at the same site.  Especially when many of those brokers don't allow a reciprocating advertisement.

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