I'm not a merchant. I haven't given away freestuff. I've only recently begun posting to the galleries. However, I've been around, lurking (and learning) for years. Poser is a hobby to me, not my bread and butter, although it seems there are more than a few people around here who make a large chunk of their income from it, by either making art, or products for other artists to use. Now that I've clarified where I stand on that, and that my views are probably not "valid" to most of you, I want to state my two cents worth on this whole fiasco. It seems to me as if a lot of this nastiness could have been avoided if, when it was decided to make those changes in policy, they had notified merchants before implementing it, and given the ones who disagreed with this change in their current 'contract' time to decide what they wanted to do. It does not seem fair to me to make money off the hard work of a 'business partner' while denying them the same perks your other 'business partners' receive. Would it have been so difficult, since, apparently those in charge of making the decisions knew beforehand the merchants they intended to single out, to notify them of a possible upcoming change in policy, and allow those merchants time to decide if they wanted to continue to broker here, or not? I think (only my opinion, of course) that might have saved a lot of the nastiness. There would certainly still have been bad feelings, but in the position of some of the merchants who have been denied what they see as their 'rights' when they agreed to broker here, I would have some bad feelings about the change of policy, too, had it been sprung on me so suddenly. I certainly would not like the idea of someone making money off my work, while, in effect, telling me that they do not trust me, and that I do not have a place on their site, or any right to the same sort of input other brokers are receiving. I suppose I should have remained silent, as usual, but some things are worth speaking out about. I like this site, I've come here almost daily for years, and yes, I've spent my own hard-earned money (I'm a freelance artist of sorts, just not in the cgi field) in the store here. However, I'm unsure as to whether I will be spending more in the future, because I have a hard time swallowing the idea of supporting something I see as injustice done to other freelance artists, whatever their field.