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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D_Sinclair" data-source="post: 1828121" data-attributes="member: 21823">Roudi, two problems with your efforts to debunk my assumptions.1.) An event need not be intended as a cue to be one. If the stock market drops 1000 points in a single day, a lot of people take that as at least a cue to seriously and quickly review their stock portfolios, if not bail out of the market completely. Yet no one intentionally established that stock market loss as a purposeful cue to do so. The increase in minimum checkout balance at RPGnow is the same sort of incident. Also, there is a thread on the rpgnow forums that does discuss the minimum balance and what vendors should do. In that thread, James did tell vendors to raise their $5.00 prices if it was a justifiable for reasons other than the checkout minimum increase.2.) Second, the process of creation for a free fanzine using free contributions is significantly different from the process of developing, producing, and distributing a for-profit gaming product, if only for the fact that there are no financial considerations to be made while producing the fanzine. Production of materials for free consumer distribution doesn't bear a lot of similarity to the production of materials for consumer resale, since you don't have to worry about money. The only way I envision for you to have any similar experience is if you're one of the people running The Brood rather than being a creative contributor.</blockquote>