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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sledge" data-source="post: 2610085" data-attributes="member: 9324">Yes I meant vendors. If you want to use the mall analogy imagine this.  You have your pretty and beautiful mall.  Tucked behind it is a strip mall.  Except whereas in real life the less visible strip will generally have a lower rent, the strip mall will actually have the higher rent.  Inside the mall are only big stores.   Any of those kiosks are now kicked out to the parking lot of the strip mall, and still charged full strip mall rent.For the record I don't think the people at RPGNow are evil.  I simply think they are moving toward a very foolish decision.  Not out of malice, or even greed, just out of a desire to keep food on the table.As for the art redo I've only heard of it as a prettying up.  If there is a rumour of actual reorganization of the site rather than splitting it apart, I'd love to hear it.  The knowledge that they are planning to split it implies to me however that they will give us 2 sites with the same general organization as now.As for the results of two different locations when you can "teleport", the poll on rpgnow says that 31% never shop elsewhere and that 38% only look elsewhere if they can't find what they want on rpgnow first.  There are about 30% of customers that are actually willing to look around.  So if as a small vendor you believe this will benefit you understand that most likely you'll end up in a situation where you have 50% more appearance on a site with 1/3 the traffic/sales.  Or roughly half the sales.  Meanwhile have you checked to find out that the main site will indeed have the lower rates of the two sites?  This is what I've heard and unless I am wrong (which I could be, but doubt it) you will end up with 1/2 the money coming in that you used to have and higher rates than ever.The fact of the matter is that rpgnow have had this idea for a while.  They just recently put up a survey.  Obviously if they were actually interested in whether customers would enjoy such a change they could have checked.  Instead they have questions about integrating rpgnow and rpgshop.  So why didn't they check?  They had already made that decision.  If they put it up on the site, they would have difficulty justifying it if the majority of customers disliked it.  I suspect that rpgnow was hoping to keep this very low profile.  Make it all sound nice.  The fact of the matter however is that this won't improve anything for customers.  I'm assuming this is what Black Angus is talking about.  Rpgnow isn't looking for options.  They've got their plan and it's their site, so they can do it.And to anyone that thinks I'm overreacting, well hopefully I am.  This is the internet after all.  Postulating theories is really our bread and butter.  I'm not however suggesting any outrageous behaviour because of this.  I'm still a fan of rpgnow and am especially frustrated because rpgnow is moving more and more towards the middle of the pack for pdf sales, when they ought to working on new innovative ideas.  Moving to an "elite" only store style is not exactly a new idea.</blockquote>

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