Quote - Personally I am sick of hearing how I owe merchants a living and talk about merchants recouping their "investment". Want to get minimum wage? Work at McDonalds, Want to earn more? Sell your digital work to the commercial market. You can earn more than you can with a year's income with a Poser "top seller" product in only a few hours work on a properly negotiated and liscenced commercial job. It is like the people who get thier work hung at the local cafe expecting to be "properly compensated" for four years art school tuition and number of hours spent on the canvas!

My sentiments exactly! As for SA and his quality niche items, I wouldn't touch his stuff with a ten foot pole being held by someone else. I watched the PoserPros thread where he treated one of his customers like absolute dirt for daring to post an image under a screen name different than the one they used to buy his products. I too have multiple screen names on different sites and there's no way I'm going to set myself up for that kind of public assault on my character so I just won't buy his stuff.

Now to the OP's point, it is dispicitable that merchants are selling the same thing under different names. Those merchants should be avoided completely and I'd appreciate a PM with names so I can know who not to buy from. Changing a hair just a little and repackaging it under a new name instead of just making the change a morph for the original hair is beyond unscrupulous in my opinion.

There's only only one hair merchant I buy from regularly and that's AprilYSH. Beyond that, the only hair I've bought from a merchant recently, who wasn't April, was the curly "UpTown Boy" hair style for Hiro4 and M4 over at DAZ.