Crescent opened this issue on Apr 13, 2002 ยท 20 posts
MissTara posted Sun, 14 April 2002 at 4:57 AM
Disagree with you? Never :) I'm all for freebies. I'd love it if EVERYTHING for Poser was free, but then if everything was free, there would be alot less stuff to use. I think that a pretty big portion of those ccreating stuff for the store wouldn't be creating anything at all if there was no way to profit from it. It's just too time consuming to create items for free unless you have a decent income. If you have a decent income from a job or business or something, you sometimes have more time to play with. I, on the other hand, spend 12-14 hours a day just working to pay bills, so whatever I managed to create would be extremely valuable to me. Especially since my kids would have to deal without the extra mommy-time while I worked on it. Heh. Anyway, I agree that many of the items are low in quality and take up valuable space. I guess many of those merchants are just hoping to earn a little extra cash off the odd sale here and there to finance their own marketplace spending. I've even thought of selling a couple of items myself, but before I could get them ready to go in the store I had a HD crash and had to fdisk and I wasn't able to back them up :( I hate this old beast of a system. Anyway, my rant to merchants is: For god's sake, if you're going to offer a freebie that requires the purchase of your item, PLEASE state on the thumbnail that it requires purchase of (ITEM) and try to fit it in the text description, too, in case the thumb is broken, which happens sometimes. I hate getting really excited about an item only to find out I have to buy something in order to use it. Especially when I can't afford to buy anything at the moment :(