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Dearest Raddtitan members.....

Due to the recent email sent to all Sideshow Affiliates we have been put in a position where an important decision must be made!

Whilst we strongly agree with sideshow collectibles' stand on the custom market getting out of control, we cannot agree with the time scaled response of 72hrs to cease sharing any custom piece (past or present) across all RaddTitan social media platforms. Also the blatant blackmail threat of removal of affiliates that don't comply with these demands and the convenient announcement of sideshows intent to retain the monies ($7k) previously earned by RaddTitan from years of promotion and sales on this group has led us to the following decision.

RaddTitan have been a committed Sideshow affiliate for a number of years and in that time we have made over $500,000 in sales for Sideshow Collectibles.

They currently have over $7k in commission from previous sales that will be withheld from us if we show, share, review or even talk about any custom project past or present!!

You should know by now that ultimatums are badly received here and although we have been openly discussing customs going crazy for over 4 months (via our weekly chat), with new businesses now popping up selling them openly, making huge profits and high edition size numbers, the fact we are being told we can't discuss it or say it's good, bad or indifferent is purely control of our social media in our eyes!!

We agree with Sideshow that Customs should be small runs to fill voids of characters not being made. Not to be someone's business and full time income. However, we also feel that;

- With the recent Sideshow action of cutting the affiliates link value by 50% (5%-2.5%)

- Followed by the threat that "now we will loose all our past affiliate sales if we do not comply"

What does this mean for the future if we agree to this?

1) Will they stop our affiliate sales if we share any companies' that are selling out of their regions?

2) If we do not take XM resellers off of our sales pages will Sideshow again threaten to remove our affiliate links?

3) Where does this end?

4) What must not be forgotten is that there a benefit to showcasing custom projects and artists e.g.

Did Sideshow not just employ Daniel Bel?

Wasn't that due to his work being shared all over social media, with his custom Sentry and custom Magneto winning ZBrush awards?

I am sure his earlier great work with XM Studios may have helped too.

As mentioned above we have got Sideshow over $500k in sales and if they choose not to honour the remaining $7k commission from those sales it is very disappointing. But RaddTitan is a group for people to share their ideas and their projects with passion.

So in short......

We will not be stopping any posts of any projects of artists.

We do not allow direct sales of customs on our group and this will continue.

Raddtitan's ethos of friendship, sharing and community will continue to be the backbone of our web page, facebook group's and YouTube channel!

We wish you all a happy collecting journey!!

Geo and Alex!