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Originally Posted by megansmomma

The YT vendors pay an annual fee to sell and for you to post a link to an outside vendor is pretty much a slap in the face to the people who sell on the forum I might be in the minority here but I find posting your posting a link to Etsy pretty darn rude.

I understand not being able to afford $100 for a bed but please_how do you think that the vendor feel when members are not even appreciative of all the LABOR that goes into making the items they sell. They are not your aunt who you are expecting to spend a day of her time saving you a few bucks! It's not funny as you are LOLing your way insulting vendors.

Furthermore, you say your aunt is a seamstress and you expect her to help. What about her time and expertise. I sew too and do not appreciate others expecting to use my skills unless I were to offer. After she spends her time are you going to offer back YOUR time for something that you have a talent with?

The above is not just directed at you but all of the people who come on posting they want free patterns for clothes, belly bands, diapers, pee pads, dog beds~on and on.

There is a "certain" member of this forum who purchased a Cloud 9 bed from YHR took it apart to copy to sell elsewhere. Seriously~they are trying to steal from a YORKIE RESCUE~who does that! What kind of a PO$ does that!

Personally, I support the vendors of YT because they support the forum and also support rescue. What does the Etsy vendor do for anyone expect themselves? When it comes to custom merchandise that is sold on the forum I believe we should respect their venue and not post outside links for like merchandise.

Thanks for posting this Jodi as I had never thought of it in this way. Yesterday someone posted for places to purchase items and I gave them a link to PPEpets. I think they were looking for coats and shoes. I knew I had seen coats on sale there in the FOS sale and posted the link. I didn't even think of giving them Karens info for boots until Nancy (nancy1999) posted. I felt horrible, because Karen helped me out so much with Jada when she had a reaction to some treats and was itchy and scratching constantly. I did post again to that thread to tell them how wonderful Karen is to work with when you need shoes/socks/boots.
I am sure there are others who have posted links too without even giving it a second thought. I am going to be more thoughtful in the future.
And a big to whoever bought a cloud 9 bed to steal the pattern.