I have been following the discussion on the Poser Store with some interest and let me say from the start I am not opposed to it but welcome it. However, I would like to make a suggestion that you Jack, and the team, might consider taking on board. But first let me tell you a story: Over 20 years ago when I was an undergrad in Trinty College in Dublin my closest friend, some other student friends and I, who were studying History of Art, got together a cooked up what many thought was a crazy plan. We planned to mount the countrys biggest-ever exhibition of emerging contemporary artists The idea was mad. It was the height of the worst depression of modern times in Ireland, there was no spare cash in the economy and nobody was buying any art at all. In addition, in order to help struggling artists, we planned to charge no commission at all on sales and finance the whole venture through sponsorship and advertising in the catalogue. We did it and Exposure was born and a became a major success. Three years later, in my final undergrad year, Exposure 3: For Emerging Artists broke all records for sales and visitors. Artists were limited to three entries each, we got thousands of works of art, and a high powered judging panel which included the then Director of the National Gallery, commercial gallery directors and academic art historians finally managed reduce the thousands to around 900 (if my memory serves me right) works for exhibition. 900 works of art, including some park sculpture (one piece 40 feet by 40 feet arrived in two articulated trucks) required a massive exhibition area. We were desperate for a space and got lucky when we persuaded the developers of a huge new retail centre in the centre of Dublin to give us the main department store unit as a space. The clients agreed to postpone opening their shop there for a number of weeks in order to let the exhibition go ahead. Even so the show spilled out into the malls and smaller unlet units in the centre. Despite the depression it was a phenomenal success, over 2000 people attended the opening reception including every ambassador and politician in the country. Television crews and journalists from all over Europe covered the story (it was a happy story in sad times) and we got massive publicity. In the few weeks Exposure ran for we estimated a quarter of a million people saw the art, (entrance was free) and nearly 400 works were sold by exhibiting artists. The no-commission policy worked and many people bought art because it was cheaper and, as we found out later, because they felt their money was going to the artists and not largely to middle-men. My friend and I both became journalists. He was killed five years ago in South Africa covering the end of apartheid. Many of the artists exhibited in Exposure made it, some internationally, and to this day a lot of them still credit us and what we did as giving them their first big break. Why am I rambling on with this story that is probably boring the pants off everyone? Well I learnt that the majority of people dislike commission. Now in the real world of business it has to exist but the level at which it is applied is a key factor in determining sales volume. Now an artist selling a model for $25 in the store gets $12.50 return. If it could be demonstrated that reducing the commission percentage would increase sales volume proportionally everyone will benefit. The artists will earn much more because of increased sales volume, the community here will benefit because the stuff is far cheaper and BBay & Renderosity will still earn the same amount of income from higher sales volumes. In addition other factors may emerge. Because they are selling more works, artists may feel they can reduce their price further, benefiting all of us. In addition the lower prices and feel-good factor of all of this may encourage people, who never considered it before, to buy. I dont know if this has been considered by you, maybe it has and is not a runner, but it might be worth looking at, particularly given a certain level of resentment that I seem to detect in a number the various posts on the Poser Store. Either way I wish you and all the artists involved in the venture good luck. STORM