I agree, it's the unwillingness of some designers to not offer any type of concept that gets me. Money is not a problem for us on this end. For ex. when we were ready to buy content for the sites in our program we werw allowed to have access to samples of exactly what we were buying. No problem there, and after we approved of the samples we dropped almost 5k immediately, done deal. The designer that did the sites in our program offered a bulk deal of 5 sites for $8,000. Again, no problem, as we have seen the work and know the value of the design. But on these other projects, offering some adult designers the opportunity to diversify into mainstream (as some threads here in the past have made mention to that trend) I would have thought that some designers would jump at the chance to give it a shot and offer some concepts. I'm talking about some brandable graphics that will be put on thousands of products and seen on National and possibly World-wide TV and cable channels.
Anyway, thanks for your input, it's well regarded!