This thread brings up so many of my quibbles with the marketplace here, and elsewhere.

Really, you would think that vendors would want to sell their products. But not all sellers see it that way. When I was designing a website for my MIL's business, the most common screen resolution was 800 x 600, particularly at offices. But my MIL had poor vision and an enormous screen. She refused to permit any design that accomodated a screen smaller than 1024 width and insisted on 16 point fonts. The result was hideous. When I tried to explain the relationship between accessibility and sales, she said that she wasn't interested in doing business with customers who still used small screens because they would doubtless end up being problem customers who constantly needed technical support to do the simplest things.

Well... okay... if you are running a business alone and don't have time to spend hours on the phone helping people reset their passwords over and over, this actually kind of makes sense.

But it's silly to have that kind of attitude and then complain that only a few vendors can make any real money. I bet one of the reasons this is the case is that those few vendors know how to do good, quality promo renders, keywords, product titles, and useful descriptions.

Having said all that, in the end, I stopped browsing the marketplace. These days, I buy from my favorite vendors, and sometimes by "word of mouth", but that's it. New vendors hoping to get established would have to do something very special to get my attention these days.

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