Just another two cents worth here...there are stores, such as Daz and 3dcommune that already put the products through some very rigorous testings. Some vendors also have very good testers before they even reach the stores and then are tested again before being put up for sale. So please don't be lulled into thinking that all stores have the same standards, nor do they even have the same commission structures for their vendors. This is NOT the only store in town, believe me, although the way some people are carrying on you would think that it was. (grc hasn't been around long enough for me to comment on otherwise I would but if Diane is behind it I'm sure it's pretty strict also) The whole point of this is....there are already standards in place and what Mehndi is proposing is something that is already being done and being done very well at 3dcommune and Daz. Anyone that has ever taken the time to visit those stores and talked with those that have purchased the products from those stores will find very pleased consumers. Not that things don't go wrong because they do, but they are backed by very effective and efficient customer service. It all boils down to trust...how much do you trust the people that run any store? How much are you going to trust those people that run any guild? I see a lot of store bashing, and no actual constructive help offered...UNLESS it has been offered and refused, which is quite possible. If that is the case, we must as members wonder why the refusal.... Another seal of approval? I would rather see better customer service and know that if I have a problem then it will be resolved quickly. This is beginning to sound more and more like not only a store bashing, but a vendor bashing as well in the guise of a guild and for the good of the community. Right now after rereading all of the posts and the answers given, I'm starting to get a real creepy feeling about this. The sharing of knowledge is already going on in the form of Art School forums and Poser and Bryce 101 forums. It's all there for the asking, if people would just participate. So how does this sound? Better that we start putting limitations on who can go into the store by the way of free stuff....as in okay you want to go into the store? You have to do a stint of one month of freestuff first, to make sure that your skills and products are in fact up to par. To me that would actually make more sense. After that, the products go into testing and if it is quality work, it goes into the stores. These are just observations and suggestions..nothing more. Mehndi....why this answer? <<Heya Leggs Akimbo... I always did wonder that about Amish folks, why they will use technology so long as they are not owning it? Like running over to use the neighbhors phone instead of owning one ;) It was a very mysterious thing to me. Be that as it may, I have more respect for your faith despite it's mysteries to me, than you evidently have toward us.>> You ask for respect from someone that you show none to. You managed to lump all of the Amish faith into one paragraph..you have no respect for them apparently, not from the first few remarks of your post. That rather read like an attack and in light of the subject of the post, was really quite irrelevent. tsk, tsk, and up until then you were doing so well. Pendy