As a customer, I'm the same as you and from what I've learned from interaction with my customers most are about the same. A lot prefer to buy at one or two sites only. Personally I used to visit RDNA, DAZ, Rendo and CP on a daily basis. After RDNA did their major revamp, I stopped visiting, it's so not my taste. No, it's no the color schemes as here, it's the whole atmosphere the site breathes out. With the arrival of Genesis and DAZ focussing more and more on slutwear, I started visiting less and less, but still bought once in a while. But with their recent hostility against poser users and on top of that even a huger hostility against non DAZ vendors, DAZ is off the list as well. So, only 2 major stores less.

 

Besides these major players, there are only 3 other sites I do visit.... of course PoserWorld, then there's Xurge's website and finally Poserdirect, but that one least of all, but still it get's some of my attention. 

That's it, the rest I don't have time for and most of them I have visited do not offer anything else as the 5 sites I visit do and most important, they do not compete price wise at all. I can buy the same kind of items here or at CP, at better prices then at most indy stores, so tell me whay should I, as a customere, take all the effort to look up these sites if they have nothing special to offer?

 

Most of them do not have the quality Xurge offers, so why pay for less quality at same prices? None of them offers the awesome special deals CP has, so why pay more for the same? As customer I'm very simple..... if a indy can't compete why bother to visit them? If they cannot offer outstanding quality or something I can't find here or at CP, why even bother? There's nothing to entice me to buy, since a lot of the indy sites sell there items here or at CP at the same price or better prices, so for me as a customer visiting all kinds of places is a waste of time. While some vendors may not like the $1.99 deals and such, customers do..... people spent big money at the FFB.... at the PC.... when Rendo has their 50% off coupons... at the yearly RealDeal sale and so on. We as vendors can cry havoc all we want, but that's the way it is, has been for many years and will be so for as long as this market will survive. As long as it's the case, I'm going to ride that wave, no use to try to resist it and spent lot's of time on doing so, the customers simply will not be enticed by me doing the same old all over again and neither would I do as a customer.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk