Some of us have a very small target audience with the items we produce. We would spend more than we make trying to set up our own website and store with credit card and/or paypal access. Plus advertising isnt free either. DAZ, as much as it chokes me to say something nice about them lol, at least will let you link to your products on other sites in their forums. Rendo wont, 3DC wont. RDNA wont. Plus alot of these vendors were with these sites for years before they went out on their own. You have to have time to build a reputation for yourself.

So what choice does the starting out vendor have but to use these sites to broker our products? I would love to sell all my products at 3DC where they offer 70% commission but I dont get many sales there. I do think RMP should give more to the vendors but I dont control them. To be honest I dont buy a whole lot of items from RMP mainly because if you do get a crappy item, it is next to impossible to return it for a refund. I sell here because they have large target audience and my products sell. I just started being a vendor earlier this year and I feel the prices I ask for my packages are reasonable. I am into pose packages right now and none have less than 130 poses in each one. I sell them for $12 bucks. I feel that is fair, especially when I see a lot of other pose sets where you get 30-40 poses, some even less, and they are charging $10.

You make some valid points but at the same time it seems to me your acting like we can wave a magic wand, a personal site appears, we sell for cheaper and get all the profit. Doesn't work that way bud.

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