sounds like R'osity needed two forums here, one for discussing design and strategy of the MP - limited to Admins and some moderators of R'osity - and another forum for general vendor support. Instead of making a new forum for said purpose no 1, I guess someone thought... why not just banish some people from the vendor forum where they need to get support and faqs on being a merchant here? And cut off some vendors from getting support. And like, cause a huge PR disaster? Instead of doing the easier thing and like... do a little bit of work and open a new forum... :-/ What is a competing brokerage anyway - most of the top vendors have their own sites too. So what. A boutique with your own stuff isn't a brokerage, and hey, some of those boutiques have items that have trouble being sold here. my opinion - if you write it in an email or a forum its not going to be a secret anyway. SOMEbody is going to flap their trap and use copy and paste to their advantage. So what was the point of this PR disaster other than to cause a big brouhaha?