Reiss-Studio: One thing, is to have an announced price and a street price that is more or less determined by the same company (i.e. the producers) in the same country of origin. A whole different matter alltogether is to have an announced price and a street price determined by third party distributors. There may be countries more lucky, like Germany, where (according to the content of Wolfgang's words) no exclusivity contract is apparently existent, but as far as Italy is concerned, I can tell you that the distributor here (Pico) could and still can operate without competition with regards to Poser. This was almost surely determined (my guess) by the advantage of an exclusivity contract. Now I don't know if in occasion of Poser 5, this will be changed. I strongly hope so. In case they still have exclusivity for Poser 5, I can grant you that their final price won't be much (if at all) better than CL's announced price. They'll want to suck every juice drop they can out of the Poser 5 fruit.