I concur with the last few posts.  I used to use Daz3d and only purchased from there but I have not purchased a single item for almost a year.  I visit Renderosity on a daily basis and tend to look at RDNA about once a week which is usually because I have seen something I like in their weekly newsletter.

I have purchased from Xurge and Power fusion3D but these were isolated purchases and well over 90% of my purchases are here at Rendo.

I am I prime member and I often wait until something is on sale, then again I have paid $25 or more for a product but only if it is of very high quality or reasonable quality with a lot in the package.  My average spend on an item must be around $10, some of it is what many regard as 'slutwear' but I only usually buy an item if I can adapt or retexture it to be a convincing Sci-Fi outfit.  By far my biggest outlay goes on scenes, props and materials as I like to modify much of what I use.

I have no interest in being a vendor and therefore I am happy to buy from those more skillful than me.

I do understand that things must be tight for many in the present financial climate but I do feel that, as a hobby, 3D art has to be one of the cheapest around once you have afforded the intial outlay of a half decent PC.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.