Renderosity is becoming a store selling Renderosity marketing stuff for selling at Renderosity???

What about only listing things likely to interest paying clients, and keeping the back office machinery tedium between you and the vendors? You surely have some private means to communicate with your vendors, don't you? Or do you hope perchance clients might fancy buying $75 banner ads?

Those are probably for outside clients/companies.  There are any number of advertisements I see here that have nothing to do with art at all, like Neiman-Marcus. That was weird to see, but RO has to bring in capital somehow.

There is already various advertising options for vendors for sale in the store, has been for years. New site means new sizes and/or layout (When it's actually rolled out). 

sloan and 3-DArena are correct. They are for outside clients/companies and yes, we do have options for vendors to advertise and if they choose not to, we have to bring in means elsewhere. 

Warmest Regrds,

Kristi

My issue is not with Rosity selling ads, it's about this being done in the main store, which initially was about brokering CGI stuff. When you go to a restaurant, you don't expect to see people hawking beef quarters and sacks of potatoes across the dining room, even if you're well conscious that the food served there has to come from somewhere.

My point was about keeping the store and the workings of the store separate.

I completely understand where you are coming from and at the same time, if a someone (business, vendor, etc) wants to purchase ad space and it is not an unacceptable add (nudity, cursing, violence, etc.) we need to bring in the revenue so we place the ad.

Warmest Regards,

My issue is not with Rosity selling ads, it's about this being done in the main store, which initially was about brokering CGI stuff. When you go to a restaurant, you don't expect to see people hawking beef quarters and sacks of potatoes across the dining room, even if you're well conscious that the food served there has to come from somewhere.

My point was about keeping the store and the workings of the store separate.

They have always been in the main store since they became available - years now, so that wasn't anything new.  The difference was they don't usually show up on the front page of what's new, most likely it was being used as a sample product for the new site (because it was the only new product at the time) and it just stayed there. Nothing to stress over.