>I have all the right to say what I think about venture I attend

As do people have the right to challenge it, and in this case, with good reason. No one is saying group buys are perfect, but all the people who moan about them always fail to offer a workable alternative. They just moan about it. It's tiresome. Some group buys are awful, some are fine. You know what, some products made by large companies are fucking awful as well. Car manufacturers sometimes make things that kill people. Boeing made a plane that literally nose dived out of the fucking sky, just because they were scared of putting off buyers by telling them that their pilots would need retraining. If you think handing all of this over to big business will solve issues, you are deluded. Stuff goes wrong, but unless you can offer some real, tangible alternatives, you are not helping. What needs to actually happen is better communication between all concerned parties, and better dissemination of information to group buy participants. That I will grant you, but all I hear lately is group buys are something that need to be got rid of, that they are broken, and that we need stuff to be in stock blah blah cackababble.... and that really would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If you fail to understand why that is, then you need to have a think about what it actually is that made you want to take part in this hobby in the first instance. I bet it wasn't off the shelf products you could buy in stock. I bet it was the cool group buy custom stuff. Well... if we, as community members want to get the stuff we actually want made, and sold to other community members, all under our control without selling out to companies that will just milk us for profit, then we need to raise the money ourselves. The minute we stop doing that, then more and more we will see this hobby slide towards the same, turgid mediocrity that is prevalent in other comparative markets. Why you, or anyone else who is interested in custom products wants that, is fucking beyond me.