I am a vendor here and there are other factors besides foot traffic to your product that you get at a large community website like this. It is cost effective. I do not have to purchase web software to try to create my own web store. I do not have to pay for a personal commercial website (money is real tight, I only have a MySpace Page and Deviant Art page now). I do not have to make contracts with credit card companies and Paypal on my own. Also Rendo handles year end reporting of earnings to the government and sends me a W2 to fill out and fax back to them at the end of the year.  Not every vendor or potential vendor has the money, time, and web know-how to create personal stores nor the energy to advertise their butts off to get traffic to their own web store.

"A lonely climber walks a tightrope to where dreams are born and never die!" - Billy Thorpe, song: Edge of Madness, album: East of Eden's Gate

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