Well you are right I should have done more research. However I found the marketing disingenuous, The suggestion was that one could get a body and a head for 500L each, but when one tries to make use of these items one finds it is impossible to do so without significant additional purchases. So I bought the membership (another 500L) because it said that with the exception of the bodies and heads the entire boutique could be had for free. I did that. Then I found I still had to purchase a skin, another 500L, and even after this purchase I still had an unusable avatar. At that point I've had to give up empty handed. If there had been a notecard listing the required purchases, and the associated costs, I would have been able to make an informed choice.