I don't think SM is the only one to blame. DAZ has a part in it also. More and more people get tired of DAZ's aggressive sales tactics. People had enough of the back to back sales. There are more and more complains at DAZ's sites about the sales. I've stopped purchasing at DAZ completely, I'm getting sick of their sales and their constantly untrue sales slogans started to bother me lately. I do think I've developed a DAZ sales phobia and I know I'm not the only one. I got really tired of their various newsletters screaming at me and the constant begging for me to purchase more and more of the same old stuff I've been purchasing for years.

CP isn't much of an alternative these days anymore, since it gets flooded by 2 merchants or merchants groups, Qraffix & 3-D Arena giving paga after page of their new items and I hardly can tell one from the other anymore, they're all starting to look  a-like a lot. After Rendo & RDNA left CP and these 2 merchants started flooding CP, I kind of lost interest.

If you really want my money you should offer your items at RDNA also...... nice and quiet site. Easy to navigate, doesn't scream at me all the time and doesn't get flooded by 100's of items that all look kind of similar to me.

BUT..... there's another reason I think the Poser market is suffering. It's a relative small market and way too many merchants operate on it. They all want a piece of the pie and the pieces are getting smaller and smaller with all the new merchants trying to operate on the market.

Part of the problem lies with some of the merchants not being totally honest about their income. I know some (like Garee, Stonemason & Faveral) have been very honest about their income, but others have pretended to make a lot of money from their content, more then enough to life an easy life. Such (untrue) statements have drawn new merchants like flies making it even harder to operate on this market.

I've considered many times to make content available (besides the games I do offer), but refrained from it. A lot of work involved, yet no guaranteed returns. I've operated quite succesfull creating games content for a while (not for Poser), but the work involved was tremendous. It's no different for creating Poser content and yet that market is way smaller then the one I operated on.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk