Metacreations, Curious Labs, and Fractal Designs have some of my money when I purchased the three versions of
Poser that I have. Two of those purchases were from clearance discount bins.
Posy forgive me, DAZ has a little of it too now.
However I have found that between free download, modeling on my own, and the models that are included with
Poser and a little work, lots can be done without falling into the money pit trap.
Pangor