Sharon, I am not a merchant, but after following the threads and making my decision, this is how I read it: Merchants who had access to the Merchant Forums no longer do. This is not a new forum that was set up for exclusive brokers of Rosity, it was set up for anyone who sold anything through the market place. By reading the posts, a one-sided decision was made (and implemented) disregarding all the benefits and status of the current merchants who also now have sites of their own. 3dWizard's analogy sounds exactly what I was thinking about. But as a customer of this site, I see the move being detrimental to the continued quality and offerings available here so I will now put my money into other sites in hopes of shoring up their business so that I can continue to get quality items. JDexter