Okay, I have read and reread these posts, and as a member of Renderosity (not a merchant here) but a memeber, what I see is this, 1.Merchants of only Renderosity are allowed into the RENDEROSITY MERCHANTS FORUM. 2.Merchants of Renderosity and that sell in other places will not be allowed into the RENDEROSITY MERCHANTS FORUM. 3.Merchants that sell here at Renderosity and other places feel rejected because they feel as a merchant exchanging ideas are important and merging together at one forum is a good place to do this. (you see I am a little at a loss because I never went to this forum) we are merchants, we do not communicate with anyone except our customers to see what we should do as merchants to help serve them. If I have this backwards I do appologize but if I don't, I feel that whatever and whomever started this forum, did so for reasons that may not apply for today. The Marketplace here is so large and has such wonderful work by many different artists, I don't see that they are stopping any of the selling, they are just restricting one forum to people who are specific to Renderosity. I really just don't know that this is bad. If you want to have a place to discuss marketing or what people want, or how to sell things, can't we all meet in a mutual area, this is the internet, can't we communicate via email, can't we communicate via the telephone.....it just seems like such a shame to jump all over this, when it is just one forum we are talking about. Again, I am not a merchant here and maybe I don't see the ramifications, but we are merchants so I am trying to understand it because I am a memeber here. I do applolgize if my comments have offended anyone for my lack of information and first hand experience. Sharen