This is really stupid, I agree.  Though luckily, some of the pages, promos, and readmes are on the wayback machine.

 

I have a question, up until now, was it possible to ask a vendor if they would sell them a non-available product just to them?  Because someone on the DAZ forums said that some vendors will do this, but didn't specify where, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't at DAZ since retired items are 404'd for anyone who hasn't already bought it.  Renderosity is the only site I'm aware of that up until recently still had product pages for retired products.  Also, it seems like things are exiting the clearance at a faster rate all of a sudden.  I think Cookie products have been halved in just 1 month, and it's not just a single vendor.

 

Wasnt broke, why nerf / change it.

Bandwidth, obviously.*