Your dresses, Jodis dresses, Cynthias dresses are all elaborate designs. Different from my beginner basic ones therefore I am not copying your designs. While my dresses are basic I make sure they are durable and something I would want to purchase, this is why I am selling at a lower price.
Like I said before I am far from the $6,000.00 for Jazzies surgery, that is why I am trying to sell some dresses.
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Originally Posted by Shanatink  Yes it may be a huge market and that is not really what Im debating. I agree that there is plenty of people to sell dog clothes too and even more fabric and embellishment choices to make the dresses from so even more a reason why everyone should be able to come up with thier own unique styles.
And while some people may consider copying to be a form of flattery that still doesnt make it right. Its not fair for one person to spend all the time, effort, and creativity coming up with a really cute design and to have someone come along and just copy it for cheaper. Ive had it done to me several times and even by a big name dog clothing designer and it is not a good feeling. I should have been paid for my designs/pattern that was being reproduced but I didnt. So basically I did all the work and someone else got the credit and is getting paid, it doesnt make it right. This thread was just started to sort of vent frustrations out and also I really feel that my YT family would support us YT storeowners who work hard to come up with our own designs. I just feel so many people dont realize all the little issues that are going on in the sellers world and I talk to many sellers weekly who are frustrated and so I finally felt like I needed to be the voice for everyone.
And as far as a simple dog dress pattern, that is not what Im refering to with the copying issue either. Like I said before I know there is only so many ways to make a dog dress and there is going to be people buying the same fabric. Actually many of us have picked out the same fabrics which is fine when you make different styles out of it, it just is not really an issues. Me and Jodi end up with the same taste in fabric many a time and we know it and we always try and make our dresses look different from each other when this happens. The issue is when someone copies techniques and designs that are unique to a particular seller or if someone goes out and gets the exact same fabric, exact same embellishments, same trim, exact same bow or even calls the dress by the same name and basically replicates an entire outfit that someone else has designed. Those are the issues Im refering too. |