Re: Vickie's clothes

I wonder how much the way the marketplace works has something to do with the sort of products that are created.

I mean that there is a constant pressure to create new products, even for old figures like V4 that have more than enough already.

How many of a vendor's older -- but still perfectly working -- products get featured on the first page? 

If you're a top seller and get featured as VOM, surely customers will delve into your back catalog, which will drive some sales. But what if you're not there yet and still trying to make a name for yourself? Even if you are popular and known, being a front page feature once or twice a year -- is that enough?

Fabiana doesn't pad her catalog with new products. She's one of the very top sellers here (for good reason, too). But would she sell even more if she cut down the quality of her work and released something every 2 weeks?

This isn't something unique to Poser marketplaces. Ebay is the same. Amazon is the same.

An outfit takes weeks to make. Hair perhaps a bit less. Yet there must be pressure to stay on the front page. The competition is fierce.

Maybe every vendor who's been around for a while has had an experience where the outfit they were really excited about and spent two months making sells a bit and then falls into obscurity; and then a re-work of an old mesh, a miniskirt and bikini top, sells just as much for a tenth of the effort.

If outfits took a couple of days to make, I'm sure there'd be a huge variety out there. But a month or more of work is just too much investment of time for something that doesn't get noticed.

Every marketplace is inundated with skimpy clothes for the females. They even dominate the catalog for the newest figures. V6 has hardly any normal clothing, and not a whole lot of fantasy or sci-fi stuff either. But she's ready to rule the red light district.

There's really only one conclusion: Skimp wear for girls sells. It sells so well that it's hard not to make it and make more and more of it. It really IS what the vast majority of the customers want.

Unfortunately, in a free market, you're only going to see products that fill demand. And as much as one might groan and complain about it, it just ISN'T going to change until there's a complete cultural shift. Blaming vendors doesn't make sense. They are small businesses. They don't make enough profit to be able to throw some of it away on experiments.

I'm just thankful that occasionally vendors do see fit to make products for male figures at all. *The fact that vendors consider themselves artists (and many of them really are) and often make what they want, rather than what the boss or market dictates, is probably the only reason we have any male content. *

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