Sharen, You are not totally correct above. Here is my take. Any merchant here has access to that forum, even those who sell elsewhere. However those who own or have a major interest in other broker sites will be excluded from just that forum. Also if a merchant is disruptive they can be banned. Basicly this is their site and they can do what every they want. But, I hope you see why I gave the mall analogy above. If they wanted to talk about site improvements away from prying eyes they could have done it elsewhere. The merchant forum was originally for the benefit of all the merchants here wither you had one product or fifty. It was the first place merchants could go and exchange ideas with each other, solicit feedback on new product, etc. There was a lot of sharing between the merchants int he forum and I did not see merchants ripping each other off. I am not sure what casued this move. For me it is a lot more than just this. This is just the last straw for me. I have been through both admin changes and number of other battles here. But the attitude demonstrated by the owners of this site is just to much.