User blog comment:Bugzy/The Shops Suck/@comment-1024726-20090822160659

Don't like the shops, don't use them or pay attention to them.

I do agree that the PNG conversion is unnecessary, but economics has its ways of shutting down unnecessary business. You see, since you pointed out the fact that there are online PNG converters, more people will use those free converters and all PNG converters that cost currency here will fail. Furthermore, the Image Helpers is essentially one of the shops' points, except that it now costs currency to get an image from an image helper.

On the other hand, paying for help is fail, now that I realize, and offering quality articles is just dumb. The articles must be rated AFTER they are created, otherwise that kills the concept of the QA system.

Bugzy, if your opinion remains unchanged after beta testing, there's going to be a wiki-wide vote in November. The public will decide whether to keep the shops up or not.