That's what i thought too.?!
I went to check - you never know with their ever-changing rules - and yeah SA's stuff are 100% free.

Duh'. I downloaded several items from Sapphire but i really can't stand all that blinkness, flufiness and whateverness.
It just hurts my eyes, my brains and my monitor lol. You just read on 5 pages of 'i luv iou!' blinking horrors for each items trying to find a real 'report problem' message, eerk!
I dare to say that even Peggy during christmas time is less blinky than Sapphire!

 

For me too the securom was the WTF?! thing that made me aaaarr their EPs afterwards, so my last purchase was seasons. Well i also started to arrr stuff packs after the first one which i purchased, what a huge ripoff!
I also do not really agree with EA selling these stuff packs, not really because they're selling it (i do recognize they have the right to sell stuff),  but because of their SPs price. It's way too expensive for what thein contain, really
And i'll arrr Sims 3 without any regret as it will have that dreadful securom for sure... Bad EA, trying to nuke all the computers!

Wow, you're the one who made all these great neighborhoods!

Bad Calalily! Bad!

Mine was the first one, talk about a bad choice lol. Probably the less useless one
The Xmas one had a food that was used for a lot of clones that needed that SP installed, H&M is probably the most useful one with all these little things for shops.
I thought of another reason to aaaarr the stuff packs: houses. Houses do love to crash yor game, mainly if you're missing any SP or EP...

Holy crap! Sorry Redlove, i thought it was the dresses
And i still haven't seen all the new clothes in FT, you have noticed. Pwned.

Yeah the wild housewives is a great idea, piercing and all... In fact it made me think to the show "love and married" with Al Bundy's daughter! *hums the song*

oddjob or blowjob?

 
Couldn't restist, Yaar!

Redlove, i guess the main problem is that few people will even notice that news; recurrent subscribers included.
I think it'll take some time for everyone to notice the new prices. I hope i'm wrong.
Keeping the same prices but changing the dollar sign to euros is very clever. It took me a triple peek to see the difference between the old and new prices pics
I wonder how much subscribers they're gonna loose in 3 months. A third maybe.

Thomass will face the same problem than peggy: customers fleeing away. And to top it all, the 2 more eloquent commentaries were deleted and now Thomass already lost 2 customers. God, he's so gifted to wreak his own ship ^^
So that a good news *hands rum*

The exchange is melting! PANIC!! *runs around in circle*
...
Wait, i don't care.

About their stuff packs: they're mainly thievery, way too expensive for the items they contain. And no, i don't call walls & floor items.
I bought ONE pack and immediatly regretted it. Behold! A kids bed! A table! And... Hang on... A chair! Weeeee! 120 Walls & floors! Noooooo! At the fabulous price of 20E! (30 US$)

The problem is that creators often do extremely beautiful recolors of these items or amazingly beautiful clothes based on horribles EA clothes by using their meshes. So i have to aaaarr these stuff packs.

Anna your dresses are very beautiful, downloaded them
Can i repay you in another life? I can't afford that price with the VAT (E.U. resident)

Redlove your mesh is very well done, i like the detailed work you done on it. Beautiful mesh!

No it's not the other way around (sadly for europeans duh)

About the VAT cutoff, here's the phrase from the news at TSR:
"Subscribers in currencies outside of the Euro will not be charged VAT which in Sweden is currently 25%"

See? Anyone who's original currency (= where he lives) is not euros will not pay this VAT.
That means a US subsciber for example will not pay 9.95E for 2 months but 9.95E - 25% (VAT cutoff) = 11.25 US$.

1E = 1.5 US$ (approx.) so 2 months without any VAT cutoff = 15 US$. Take the VAT off that makes:
15 US $  - 25% = 11.25 US$ for 2 months
That is still 1.30$ more than the previous prices.

Now that's what that line taken in that news says, but maybe Thomas was not fully awake lol 'cause that's not very logical and highly illegal to propose a VAT cutoff, that's fraude. Legally, whenever you are, you'll have to pay the VAT of the seller's country. So WTF?!

I'm very surprised the comments on that news weren't deleted. WTF? Thy all basically say the same thing: I'm outa here, jerks!
Apparently noone is agreeing. Strange... *ironic*
All leaving the customers are fleeing the drowning ship. Thomass has sunken his boat all by himslef, without any help

Well that is not fair: anyone not in europe will have a cut of 25%. This is disgusting, all simmers should be in euro's shitty high prices
Translation:
You live in europe and your country's currency is euros: you're fucked, pay a 100% of the price. Weeee!
Other country currency: only pay 75% of the price...

What a nice hair Dachs!
It's so hard finding an everyday style, my sims will love it! I'll put it as soon as i'm finished de-leveling my downloads folder (from sub-sub-folders and more)

Yeah!!! That's a freaking good news! rum for everyone!

TSR's base is starting to crumble, the rest may come with it... *hope*
Atwat was indeed a main piece there, despite her fugliness: active piece in tsr "community".

Her page is still up and all her items too (free now), there's no infos about her demise in her blog.
I really wonder what she could have done to be nuked like that, mmmm
Maybe she's going to retirement and still haven't been moved to the 'retired artists'.