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Don't you just love it when someone puts down your work?

#1 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Zoo {lang:icon}

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Posted 15 April 2009 - 04:10 AM

Yeah. So today I was working through counting and counting and counting and counting and inventing codes for inventory at my mom's bead shop, and I was kind of half-manning the register.

Woman asks about some of my pieces that she'd seen on display before so we retrieved them. She pulled out one in this pattern, which I only mastered after about a year and a half working with the stuff.

It was made of rubber and anodized aluminum, so most of the price was for my time and the store's commission. The price? $14. $4 for the store, $1 for materials, which leaves $9 for me (about 25 minutes work [once I had the pattern down] since I upped my formula to $20/hr on the advice of someone knowledgeable and an increase in the quality of my work/materials). A year and a half of practice and study to be able to make it.

So she says: "It makes you want to go home and make it yourself."

Great. Go with my blessing. Just realize it will cost you hundreds of dollars in tools and materials, nevermind the cost in time, including the time to make the tools you decide you can't afford or can't otherwise obtain [I will grant not everyone takes a year and a half to get to that pattern, but it's not something you just "go home and make"]. Hell, come pay my $20 class fee (includes materials, 2 hours of instruction and the 30% store cut) and I'll show you how to fail to make it. Maybe next time you won't say that IN FRONT OF THE PERSON WHO MADE THE PIECE?

Anybody else had an experience like that?
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Posted 15 April 2009 - 05:24 AM

I can't say I've had that kind of experience, but then, my work is barely seen by anyone but friends, and it's just a hobby for my (rare) free time, not my focus. I've barely shown anything to the scary folk known as "the public," and made not one cent from my work. Yet.

That sucks, though. Some people are just plain rude...

btw, I remember seeing a bunch of your work awhile back... I forget whether you posted it for us or had it on a site already. Any chance you'd like to show us some more?
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Posted 15 April 2009 - 04:37 PM

Typical public shoppers.

Complete assholes.
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Posted 15 April 2009 - 06:26 PM

QUOTE (Xmadole @ Apr 15 2009, 05:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Typical public shoppers.

Complete assholes.


Pretty much this.
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