can i add my 2 cents to this discussion in my bad english?
since i discovered the booty i start donating to free sites.
so when i went to that site and saw that announcement, i was about to donate something. i registered (it's a forum so you must register to be allowed to download) and went to the advent calendar to see the downloads. it looks very good from the previews. but by clicking each day i got always a "page not found" error. so i discovered in the faqs that the dowloads are available only for the current day, because people must go to the site and check it every day. ok, so i clicked the current day, the day before, the day after: nothing, none of the days works.
I always thanks free creators, i always hit the thanks button and i never do bad comments to creations. Everything is free is good for me and i say always thanks.
And everyone can run his site as he wants and decide its rules.
But if you're looking for (money) help, if you want encourage to donate as many people as possible, i think it is not a very good idea to have a so restricted policy.
But i feel a little... tricked. i'm sorry i don't know how you say that in english: specchietto per le allodole. Some birds are attracted by shining things, like silver and gold, so if you want to catch them you can use a mirror and make shine with the sunlight. the bird sees the shine, comes and doesn't find any gold or silver but only a shine and maybe a cage.
In other words... a preview with beautiful things is to attract you to the site, but you won't get them. but instead you get an announcement: "i want your money, i make these beautiful things and if you don't pay i will close the site, but i don't dare to say that clearly, so i cry and ask for help".


Edit: IT ISN'T A FREE SITE!!! http://phorum.mustnotbenamed.com/viewtopic.php?t=1358

I'm downloading stuffs from simweb.pl, i found it listed in the sims2 official site, so ea not only tolerates paysites but let them "advertised" in the fansite list.
The forum is hard to navigate because it's divided by creator and not by type of item, so if you're looking for a dress you must look into each creator section. There are good stuffs, creators i like, they have something in the pay section but they are posting their other good stuffs for free in other sites (mts2, insim, and also the free section of simsweb.pl). Pay items are not many and they are all in the pay section, you can't download them if you don't have a subscription (i mean you're not charged after downloading). Subscriptions can be one time or recursive and paypal is accepted.
I noticed that this site is becoming well known, they post updates in many forums advertising the premium section.

soon she will be a FA, and until tsr is up, and pays FA, she will be payed, even if her stuffs are in the booty. if she does it for money, she don't care if her creations are in the booty.

Obviously not, she's italian (.it domain) but Numenor, Marilou, Sims2cri  are italians and they can speak english very well (sorry if i forgot to mention someone).
This person can't spell EVEN IN ITALIAN. This is what she wrote in the news:

Nella sezione Objects un a nuova e bellissima cucina!!! Modesta a parte sintende :-)

un a = una
modesta = modestia
sintende = s'intende (this isn't a little error like the others. it means she doesn't know what is the verb she's using!).

me too please! maybe this time i will be able to create something  :roll:  :lol: