tutone1234 Every vendor I know has been negative on this. Every one, some of whom are exclusive here. I'm just an observer... and look - I'm not bashing your right to have privacy. I'm just being pragmatic. Excluding them from the merchants forum was just causing yourself problems you didn't need to have. You could have made a new forum for your exclusive vendors ... but even that would not be secure. The relationships of people here are deep and varied, you just don't know who is all friends of who here. Copy and paste, people handing out their passwords, making fake accounts - how do you keep them out? Now, I understand completely the frustration with certain people here. I can see why you would have gotten angry - I would have gotten angry too. But I am saying - you could have dealt with just that member or couple of members, instead of making a blanket policy that has alienated people you didn't really need to alienate. I've said a few things that you could have done differently, and sure, there would be a fight from the people you talk about - I'd expect it. But its trickled down to people that it shouldn't have trickled down to. People that are not the persons of which you speak - but they don't post here because of fear of reprisals. I'm not a vendor - I'm just a user of this website, and I buy things here too - I've spent quite a lot here in fact. And I'm going to be a user again, like I was in the 2 years of lurking here before - like the rest of everybody else. Just a user.