I signed up for PRIME about the beginning of July (My account says July 9th).
It looks like the first notice I see for the Prime Anniversary items is from Preston W. on July 21st https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2915085 I personally became aware of a reference to them on July 31, and when I went to pick up the characters the next day the pointer said it was still the first week but was pointing to the second week of items with the first being de-listed. So, strictly speaking even if I had checked in at the middle of the month I would have missed them anyway because they weren't announced until a week later.

I know it seems I'm being petty, but _**** I'm trying to get through to management that I'm really annoyed. It was cumulative petty things like this that caused me to drop PRIME in the first place, after I had been a happy charter member from the time it started. **** _

I'm told how great something is that I can't get at it, and there is NO.. GOOD.. MARKETING OR SALES REASON behind the rationale that I can see. I could understand if it was costing Rendo sales or if it was costing a tremendous amount of space on the servers.

At a minimum I would suggest a well-publicized 'Catch-Up' like Daz does which would not only make me happy but would also publicize PRIME ANNIVERSARY. I feel that an even 'More Better' approach would be to have the Freebies available to PRIME members for the duration of their membership under the PRIME forums section, accessible only to PRIME members.

It's one thing to do limited time promotions to whet customers' appetites. But I don't see that this falls into that category. It's not like people are going to hurry and sign up for PRIME for PRIME ANNIVERSARY items they can't see before they're a member, right? So why make a deal about Anniversary items that can be missed by a couple of hours? For me that week is wasted effort by the artists who created whatever was up there.

Ok. That's all. If management is interested they might act on it or not. The got my $30 for the year.