Yeah...she wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer 
Giving away the original coat will certainly undercut his chances of making a profit from your BF's hard work.
Most prim items need to be modifiable for customers to adjust them, and I for one am not going to penalize my customers because some lazy person decides to copy a design. It just doesn't make good sense from a business standpoint.
I know it's frustrating and a little insulting, but I don't worry about these people for several reasons:
- They appear to be quite limited in their own creativity if they need to copy someone else's items to a T in order to produce a quality product to sell. I have no issues if they want to learn how to create using my items, and I'm happy to answer basic questions if they ask. We all need to start somewhere.
- Running a successful business takes many, many hours of hard work. Designing/creating the items is the easiest part IMO, but the question remains: will they be around in 1,3, or 6 months when they realize marketing, customer service, land fees are part of the bargain as well and take a lot of time, energy and money?
- Some people will buy the copied version simply because it's priced lower, but loyal customers will continue to shop at my store because of the customer service, continual addition of new products, and the fact that my store will be around for as long as SL is still a viable financial platform.
Whatever you decide to do Baby I wish you the best! IM me in world and I'll buy you a drink and we can share stories and hopefully have a nice giggle
~Ari
Giving away the original coat will certainly undercut his chances of making a profit from your BF's hard work.
Most prim items need to be modifiable for customers to adjust them, and I for one am not going to penalize my customers because some lazy person decides to copy a design. It just doesn't make good sense from a business standpoint.
I know it's frustrating and a little insulting, but I don't worry about these people for several reasons:
- They appear to be quite limited in their own creativity if they need to copy someone else's items to a T in order to produce a quality product to sell. I have no issues if they want to learn how to create using my items, and I'm happy to answer basic questions if they ask. We all need to start somewhere.
- Running a successful business takes many, many hours of hard work. Designing/creating the items is the easiest part IMO, but the question remains: will they be around in 1,3, or 6 months when they realize marketing, customer service, land fees are part of the bargain as well and take a lot of time, energy and money?
- Some people will buy the copied version simply because it's priced lower, but loyal customers will continue to shop at my store because of the customer service, continual addition of new products, and the fact that my store will be around for as long as SL is still a viable financial platform.
Whatever you decide to do Baby I wish you the best! IM me in world and I'll buy you a drink and we can share stories and hopefully have a nice giggle
~Ari
Yeah I"m beginning to find this out. Awhile back I guy had threatened to copy and sell several items I make. The problem was he said it would only take a few minutes that's when I clued in that anything he did sell was likely not even made by him. I have now been threatened twice and had a few other things happen to me over time. I still keep most clothing no modify (mainly because it makes no difference to ad the modify feature anyhow cause well pants are pants they are like one length and one size fits all type deal really) I was considering removing modify from my prim items which of course would make them only fit certain sized people. The more I looked at those who threatened to copy and release "full perm" the more I realized that they themselves could actually not do much if anything themselves.
I'm now back to running things the way I used to.
I had not thought though of the idea of selling a "generic" brand as well and might consider it though as to me its a good idea. I have never thought ill of any companies in real world that did that. I would simply say "oh that's actualy Intell stuff" and buy it because it was in fact made by by intel and worked almost the same way and I Liked intel. If I disliked a company (I hate compaq with a passion) and I knew their generic brands I would not buy them as well so really it made no difference to me. But then i'm not into buying something for the name only I buy it because its a decent product. (well except windows I was one of the last dos holdouts and only started using windows when they released windows 2000 Pro about 6 months before XP was released lol i use windows because well most things work withwindows and I was put between a rock and a hard place) in any event I seem to have started rambling so I will shut up now.
umm yeah so the threats I kinda got used to them. To me it actually means I'm doing something right and still being a person who has like no confidence in my abilities this is ao good thing. (does that feeling ever go away? its been like a year and I still feel that way..)
