FYI - the newsletter has to go out to 10's of thousands of members. In the meantime, other email operations have to continue as well. So we space the newsletter out so that it will not interfere with the other emails that need to be sent. From the time that Clint sends the newsletter it may take 6-9 hours for everyone to receive it. So, If anyone has not received a copy by this evening you may contact ClintH or myself and we will be happy to get a copy to you. Thanks.

Lemurtek - i'm sure that yours will be arriving shortly as well. If not, you can contact me to get a copy as well. :)

Daio, due to the large number of newsletters that have to go out it takes several hours to send them all through the mail loop in a fashion as to not overload the email server. I'm sure it will arrive shortly, and if not, let me know and I'll make sure you get one. Thanks.

trogboy - are you still having this problem?

Just to let you know - I brought this up for discussion with the admins and management and we'll see what we can do on this. Thanks for the idea. Tommy

Jack - You can contact Tim directly with your issues. Non-competing merchants - This change has not directly impacted you nor will any changes be implemented to affect you. This change was put in place to benefit you, although you are not willing to see how that may happen. Time for this argument to end!

Cambert, that is what many of you would like to believe, but the truth is - you are incorrect. This subject has been dropped!

Unfortunately Penguinisto, any further comments on this topic only provides yet another thread for RR bashing and an opportunity for additional flaming. There is nothing new to be said on the topic. A business decision has been made and it is time to move on.

Stormrage - Why is it that everyone that spends so much time bashing RR at PP all day thinks this is all about Mehndi? This is about an issue bigger than Mehndi. This is about the people that really want to be a part of the RR community. This is about making the merchants forum as much a place of trust and honesty as possible as well as providing benefits and features to the merchants without providing an advantage to our competition. It is evident that this cannot happen without restricting competition from this forum. Competitive Merchants - If you want to get into hairy details and further argument, then I suggest you contact Tim directly. However, if you want to stay informed of marketplace issues that will affect your store and your sales then ClintH will do everything in his power to make sure that it is a successful endeavor. Other Merchants and Members - If you want an answer as to why this was implemented or how this could have been done better, well the truth is that no matter how you present something like this, the same uproar would have occured. If we give notice that it's going to happen in x amount of days, the fact that it was still going to happen would not have softened the issue. If we open another forum, then someone is still going to feel left out of one place or another which will just start yet another uproar. The fact is that there are a lot of things that go on behind the scenes (which some of you are aware and some of you have been given information that has been skewed to look favorable for those opposing RR) that have lead up to this diffucult decision. There was a great deal of forethought that went into this decision and we were fully aware that some people would react very negatively to it. Nonetheless, the decision was made with intentions of bettering the community and it is unfortunate and regretful that some of you may never agree with the decision. But time will prove that RR has the best intentions of making this an excellent community to participate in 3D art on many levels. All of my remarks have been posted in an attempt to answer your questions, not to flame anyone. If you feel that I have done that, then I am sorry, but I do feel that many of your comments were meant to accomplish nothing but further argument. If you are truly a part of this community then I'm sure you will let cool heads prevail and see this through. With that said, this is my last comment on this issue.

Jack, As I pointed out earlier, if you are sincere in doing this then you may contact ClintH and he will be happy to assist you in anyway possible to make the best of this situation. I am certain that he will make it a point to notify you on any issues that will directly affect you as a merchant of Renderosity. I believe this has been expressed by several members of the Admin/Mods here. As for the policy itself, I am quite certain that it is in place to stay.

You are twisting what was said so that you can assume that this policy is based on PP bashing Renderosity. It is not. The comment about PP bashing RR is a result of the actions of those individuals since the policy has been implemented. So the new flame you are trying to start has now been extinguished. I do honestly hope that you are reading what is being said rather than proceeding to fuel yet another hypothetical argument.

DTHUREGRIF - If you read between the lines, then you may come up with that answer. But if you actually read what was written, I was making it clear that we understand that several Admins & Mods from PP have been very committed to bashing RR on both sites. That comment had nothing to do with the policy. That comment was grouped with another explaining that too many of you are distorting what is being said. This is yet another clear example of that. Thanks.

It's not about numbers, it's about complete disregard and misrepresentation of the facts on the part of those that are only aiming to bash RR here. The point is - she is trying to make everyone believe that there is a huge outpouring of disapproval for this policy. The fact is, there is some disapproval of this policy. But nothing even remotely close to the extreme that she would like everyone to believe. We have given the reasons for the policy, there is nothing more to say, nor is there a good way to tell people that they can't visit the merchants forum any more because they run competitive brokering sites. Unfortunately, it is a part of business and you can't make everyone happy. But in reality, there is also an outpouring of approval for this policy but it is transparent to this forum because many other merchants and members choose not to be bashed by those of you who enjoy doing so quite ruthlessly.

I have not reduced this issue to a spat between two web sites. It has been overly demonstrated by those that are posting here that this is the case, whether or not anyone is willing to admit it. The issues cannot be addressed when so many assumptions, accusations, and speculations - which are all unjustified - keep being made to skew the truth on what the policy is about. It's about restricting competing brokers from the merchants forum. Not the site or the marketplace. All known competing brokering merchants have been treated equally, contrary to disillusioned statements that suggest otherwise. The necessary information will be provided to those merchants who have been restricted but continue to operate a store here. But most reacted so drastically to cause a scene rather than to really think about the reasons behind the move to figure that out. Those merchants (that have not reacted hastily) can contact ClintH and he will be happy to work out something that benefits each party, you can be assured of this. So forget all of your conspiracy theories, which have all been given life from one central source, and let's move on. Whether this policy was put in place 30 days from now or as it occured, the same outlashing of disapproval would have occured contrary to what is being said here.

Kendra - i take it that you have polled the other 114,000 members of renderosity and 112,000 + said that they disagree with this policy? It's really quite simple. None of the admin or mods here at RR go over to PP and bash PP all day. Yet quite a few of you come to RR and bash RR all day. Nor do we bash PP here in our own forums. Yet quite a few of you find time to bash RR in the PP forums. All of the members that you believe disagree with the policy here are seeing first hand why such a policy had to be implemented by the behavior of the PP admin/mods in this forum. There are better things to do with our time than to continue this ridiculous "pick at everything someone says" kind of argument. If a little more attention was given to what is being said instead of the extreme willingness to read between the lines all of the time then the majority of this argument would have been dropped a long time ago.