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Although I understand the very reasons that everyone is upset and am not excusing the way things were handled, some merchants either make a living off their creations that they sell or supplement their income just so they can make ends meet. Most of us ARE NOT getting rich off our endeavors and also lived on FIXED incomes. We work very hard at creating the items we create and it is offensive to me and to them that you have, in not so many words, spit on the work we do and in our faces by calling  our creations "trivialities".  If you are grateful for those "freebies" that we work VERY VERY hard to create, then you should respect our work and what some of us do to make our income or extra income. The modeling alone on the freebie, that I put up, cost me around 36 work hours of my time and that does not include the texturing, poserizing, and testing which was nearly another 24 work hours. If in, your opinion, our creations that give to our livlihood and feed our families are "trivialities" then consider what your work and job means to you before you use such words to describe ours. Renderosity and the recent issues involving the "trick or treat" scandal aside, it seems you have lumped the merchants into the pool of "greed", you so seem to despise. We also work for a living and we also have "fixed" incomes.

Thank you,
~Will

I apologize if my statements sound harsh. I am by no mean putting down your and other's hard work . If this was the beginning of the month I would say, I'll go for it but now at the end of the month and I'm pinching pennies (I am sure you are too) then one must decide which has the highest priority, putting food on the table with the meager amount of money left over or buying something that is (IMHO) a hobby for me, guess which one it will be. I understand, vendors too have families and are on fixed income, but the way R'osity played this game, everybody loses. If in the beginning of the month, they had came out with this "charade" I might have been persuaded to part with $5.00. 

And no, I didn't lump the merchants/vendors in with R'osity I know the merchants/ vendors didn't have anything to do with the fiasco... And it wasn't their greed... No the vendors were the victims too...
After all, if no one could download their freebies, their other products would not get looked at. For me, When I download a freebie, I always go to see what they have in their store, if they are vendors. I make a mental note on what they have, what I want and I'll save up for it. For this "scandal", I didn't save up, hence it makes me mad that R'osity would pull such a stunt on both the customers and vendors.

It makes me "mad" that R'osity would play both the vendors/merchants and the customers this way. It really wasn't free... There was a fee and that in my book, make it merchandises, not freebies.

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