My last bit of business in here...
I can't speak for many of these brokering companies... but I know from personal experience there are dozens of honest and exceptional designers around here. By my own experience some of these creative people are the kindest, most easy going and giving people on the boards.
Undoubtedly, many of these people have fallen prey to 'slick' salespeople trying to broker their work. I think it's awful that many designers have gone unpaid. The lesson to be learned here is obviously that people should only do work with a deposit and never release final files until they are paid in full.
I am looking forward to getting the content and I hope you realize I didn't want to buy the shit. I already own over 110,000 images and the last thing I needed was 34 more content CDs. However, since you both were incapable of producing the required licensing for the few images used in the tours I really had no choice but to spend yet another $1000 to acquire all the content.
Brad