What I got from the post, and I may be wrong and you may be right, was, "I paid every bit as much money as those sucky paysite artists for the game. I don't really want to pay for CC. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and if you don't think it's beautiful, don't bother downloading it as nobody's forcing you to; I certainly don't. Chaz may think his Amy Winehouse sim is beautiful, and fine by him, but I don't think it's beautiful and I won't download it. Paysite artists, such as Peggy, Raon, Vita, etc, have discovered a way of conning people out of their money by making their items seem better than they are, and I don't think we should give in the fight, but there will always be paysites until karma reigns supreme, and I think it's probably best to keep the fight going until that happens, but I'm not entirely sure that WE will be the victors by force or by happenstance."
But who knows what they said.
I enjoyed looking through this thread, because there are some seriously beautiful things in here. However, I thought the purpose of the thread was to compare very similar pay and free items? Like Redisenchanted said on the first page: "I've always thought we should have some side by side comparisons of similar free and pay content," the optimum word being "similar". There are some excellent examples of this in the thread, admittedly; the Parisian flats, the swimsuits a few pages back, the Rose/Nouk plait comparison, Pirate Jenny's post on page 11 and Calalily's post on the first page.
However, it is NOT a fair comparison if you find a random ugly hair and then put a random Nouk or Helga hair next to it that is extremely different in style from the picture depicted. People seem to have been doing this as a lazy way out, and whilst the answer is, "yes, those Helga/Nouk hairs are far prettier than the other hair", you can't compare two entirely non-similar styles in a thread which the purpose of is to find similar creations for free.
Feel free to spork me or something. It's just something that's irritated me from about page 15 in this thread. Can't fault a girl for her opinions when it's relevant to the thread purpose, yes?