Did you see this exchange? I am a fan of Cindy Russell's but I don't get this. If your webpage has a problem that gives a design free (she gives many free) how come irebel got the scolding?? Lots of her designs show up free only after you put them in your cart. I got into a different web site the other day and I could have downloaded the whole site but I realized it was a badly designed web site and a mistake and I didn't download it. Isn't that the web designers fault, not the shopper? Just wondering your perspective on this, maybe I'm off base on this.

Cindy is one of the most generous site owner/designers out there. Her designs are not astronomically priced out of reach, and she is always having a sale. When she is giving something away, it is announced through ads, her yahoo group, and on site.
It was clearly posted that the coffee beans were free with purchase. If there was a glitch that made them go in as free, would you not notify the website owner instead of taking, and sharing the mistake? Cindy has just gone through having someone posting her design sets on a mega sharing site, and that person brazenly defending their actions.
It's unfortunate that only the one name was recognized, but there is so much taking and sharing of designs illegally lately, I can understand her frustration.
To many digitizers, this is not a hobby, it is their means of supporting their families. The tea buddies were $2! I don't see anyone on that thread posting that they have now gone and bought anything.

2 comments

by bowlds 20 Mar 2012

I guess I did not read that as she thought she was sharing something she knew was not right.

by suelyn7 20 Mar 2012

Yes I agree it would have been lovely to hear that people who got the set for free and thought the set wonderful now go back and buy the tea buddies.

I must say I agree with you. It is unfortunate she thinks Cute badly and I believe the whole interaction could have gone better. I like to think the purchases you and I make, cover the expenses of the free design give away, even if it was a mistake in giving it. Live Laugh Download Stitch!

I too read this and I think it was the way it was being pointed out to everybody that you could get the set without making a purchase that upset her.

2 comments

by hagridsmom 22 Mar 2012

Definitely agree with this - that's the way I read it also. I have been buying her designs for years and she has a huge sale around or after Christmas that everything is ridiculously low. I don't feel right taking advantage of a web error. She is tremendouosly generous with her freebies on line and at SewForum.

by hagridsmom 22 Mar 2012

tremendously generous with her designs both at her site and on SewForum as well.