Yep. The sad thing is, I'm sure they see the amount of money I spend here and think"we are doing so great!" when the truth is that I spend $4 at DAZ for every dollar I spend at Rendo. What I find really frustrating about the whole "clearance" process is that I frequently discover a product via a render that someone else has done and say "I WANT THAT" and then it turns out that not only is the item no longer in the store, but the vendor is gone as well.

You really hit the nail on the head about the add-ons and textures. Back during one of the grab bag deals, I actually "won" a bunch of textures for models that were no longer even in the store, but when I complained about it, Rendo's attitude was basically "So? It's still a real store product..." Just this afternoon I discovered some amazing spaceship models by an artist named Popgriffin in some renders on DevArt, and came over here ready to buy... And, yep, no longer here and their store account and profile have been wiped. However, since their art is still in the galleries and the add-ons for their products are still in the Freestuff section, I made a Hail Mary pass of sending a letter via the contacts, though I think the odds of it ever actually getting through are pretty low...