I have to admit I have bought poses and have used Schlabber's poses. I have also made poses but find that is is much more time effective to use a starter pose that is close to want I want than to spend hours making a pose. I spend weeks making the textures and morphs and would rather spend 15 bucks to get 30 poses than to spend 20-30 hours making them. 20 hours of labor even at minimum wage would be a lot more than 15 bucks. Some people also have a better talent for it than others. Some days I just don't have the patience to fiddle with this finger and that when I could just pick up a pose pack. If you think about it this way 15 dollars is half an hour of my cheap freelance rate basically. Seeing as it will take a lot mroe time than that it is a valuable investment. But I do agree about textures being more than the original product and often times things are priced outlandishly.