HRoth - 11:11 pm on Jan 16, 2010 (gmt 0)

I've heard the same thing from people dealing with big vendors, that they are more willing to accomodate and nicer. I went in with a friend of mine who wanted to order some raw materials from a bigshot vendor. Typically they have a line-item minimum of $1000. They were willing to lower it to $200, so a group of us were able to get materials we would ordinarily never be able to afford for our widgets. So there's an upside.:)