I wasn't suggesting anything sneaky was done by Wayne, and I apologize if that's how it came across.  Merely trying to explain myself, and didn't do a good job, because I don't want to specifically name the company.  Please remember in emails, texts, and forum posts it's hard to judge the tone of the person.  My tone on this string is frustration with VM constantly asking for reduced fee, and my fellow freelancers constantly reducing their fees to get the work, when the fees are already ridiculously low, then I lose work for not reducing my fee. So if you didn't receive anything that asked for a reduced fee (in a round about way), then it doesn't affect you. (again, not trying to be rude) Since I lost some work from them because I wouldn't reduce my fee, I wrote that post in a moment of pure frustration.  I wont post the email on here or their name, because I seem to remember the last person who did something like that with a different company was threatened with a law suit.  I apologize for the worthless post, and in the future I'll only post if I feel safe to name names.  My frustration got the better of me and again I apologize to you Wayne, to you Alex, and to anyone else who felt "shorted' by my posted.