well truthfully, the tutorials have been extremly helpful to me. the free tuts are quality works. they have singlehandedly taught me what I know of Maya. but all the same, there aren't too many people in the world that would pay for something such as the VIP stuff, when they could get good stuff in the free section. especially for begginers. everything you need for a begginer is in the free section. from the looks of it, the VIP stuff is significantly more advanced.