Right, but there are a LOT of vendors (most) that do NOT require even newbies to FE. All you have to do is communicate with them. What's the worst they'll say? No? There are so many options on SR that it's *almost* impossible to not find your drug-of-choice without having to finalize early!And that way you build your stats, etc etc.. and by that time have enough cred to be above the threshold that the bigger/high rank vendors hold for newbies, and voila.. no FE needed.Small order or big order makes no difference.. FEing is asking for trouble.