GYC was (and still is?) popular among the smaller vendors (i.e. not SRY or SSA). They went down (literally) when the law was on their tail. So when they came back, I guess they lost some popularity from being absent for a while, and people were wary.
I never thought of them as a price leader though, and so I never bought from them, especially with SRY having zero MOQ for their warehouse compared to SSA and GYC. WBS was trending for a while instead.
As far as the forum, I see GYC (
Annie) now has "
restricted vendor" status.