Thank you! A step in the right direction!

Going one step farther, I still also think that allowing links to competitor's sites would be a benefit to Rendo rather than a drawback; . I believe there's less harm than you think because this is a small community and we'll all probably be going back and forth between sites anyway. We all have our 'more favorites' of sites, and some vendors, like Wolfie, make products as add-ons for things on other sites. It's been a pain in the butt when I go to her store to have to manually type in a product requirement that may be in another site other than Rendo. It's not going to stop me from going, it just slows down my decision to purchase the wolfie product along with (or to see if I already have) whatever is the relevant hairstyle required base. I feel you've been working too hard to corral people who most often would rather be here anyway.

Remember the famous scene in the Classic Black and White Christmas movie "Miracle on 34th Street"? There were two competing Department stores in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, Macy's and Gimbels. The Santa Claus hired on at Macys started telling customers to go go Gimbels if Gimbels had what the customer wanted and Macy's didn't. As a result that policy drew in more customers to Macy's rather than less. Customers knew that by going to Macys first they could find what they wanted even if it wasn't at Macys. While it is a fictional story, I believe it is based on a truth in practice; it holds true as long as the links are honest links not schills (SP?) or advertising. I rarely go to Content Paradise, for example, primarily due to their expiring download policy. Or worse, their download extension 'tax'. Having a link to CP is not likely to make me become a bigger customer there, though it might allow me to buy a specific product that I'm looking for. If Daz has something good I'm going there anyway because when I sign in I typically check the major sites to see what's new and what they're all doing.

Just something for you management types to consider.