Quote - Lumping everything together generates more sales.

The promos for the add-on textures double as promos for the actual hair. So, if a customer browses through the hair category, he actually sees the same hair product multiple times.

I think you make a good point here, and it's also possible that a hair prop might look more appealing in an add-on promo than it does in the original promo (better render, prettier character etc) so you might end up buying it because of a texture add on.

Whether that's true or not, shopping for hair currently takes way too much effort. You can't go looking for what you want, you just have to start picking through the heap and hope that you find something nice before you get bored/frustrated and give up.

At the very least it would be a big help if there was a standardized stamp across the corner of the thumbnail, "Tex" if it's a texture add-on, and "Hair" if it's a hair prop.

My other pet peeve with hair shopping is so many hair prop products with no view showing what the back looks like. Plenty of views from the front with different shaped pixie ears and eye colors and different pouty lips, but not a single shot of the hair from the side or the back. Product Submission Guidelines clearly state: "One of the allowed images must include a front, back and side view unless not appropriate." How is a back view of an updo 'not appropriate'? I would say it is essential, so why does a product get passed without it?