Will, if you read correctly, ThunderStone was referring to the site, not the merchants. He even praises them for the freebies.

If you note, I work at Pretty3D's site as an admin. I know all about people who try and make a living out of this, but that still does not excuse putting a required $5 purchase in order to get what their creators intended to be free.

Where I admire what the creators do (as does TS), I simply cannot excuse that way this was handled.