Very interesting facts - 7 donations, that won't help to keep the site open and running!

Yes you are so right. Not only that the number of donation is so small when you compare the number of dl to the feedback... :o(
Sometimes it is the same here. Meganne wrote a post about giving flowers to people who write a comment and do some research for helping another cutie. I see it often last time: The person writing the post has a large number of flowers and those who try to help none; that means that even the person with the question did not give a flower for the help. So here is one more for you cause I know you are one of those who gives flowers with wide open arms and heart :o)
Greetings, Bettina

I am really not surprised by this, I think other website owners may agree, It is a little disappointing when hundreds of people download freebies from a site and maybe one or two a week may actually spend a dollar or two and buy something. It really puzzles me considering that embroidery is not an inexpensive hobby, but embroiderers just don't seem to want to spend money on there designs. Sorry for taking this opportunity to have a whine about this, but it can be a bit sole destroying.

Very interesting! Maybe we should all take the time to donate, however small the amount may be because we downloaded for free. Thanks for pointing this out to us. Please supply the name of the site so that we can make a point of donating if you think it appropriate to do it. Hugs.

My that is interesting - I have never even noticed a feedback botton - on the sites - but I don't dowload many freebies any more - but have alot in the past. It isn't because the designs aren't nice - it is because I just don't have time - to look through the freebie's for the great designs. I feel awful for this site owner. *4U

Thank you so much for raising this. The site supplies some of the best fsl designs totally free. When new designs were shown in cute projects, many people wanted to know where from? when? All the available designs are appreciated by so many on this site. I sincerely hope that crafter2243's comments will encourage EVERYONE who regularly uses the designs to donate. The figure is actually 11 donations - let's aim for 111 before Christmas.

Is it possible that someone could tell me the name of the website? Or even PM it to me. I think considering the amount of downloads that I should maybe donate something if I have used the site before.
Thank You

Deeside is correct. It is tavernmaker.de. I was hesitant to post the actual site, but she i right. There is no reason not to. The stats have gotten even worse in the meantime. Cuties go there and at least give them a feedback if you can't make a small donation.

Now I know why I wasn't there: I do no FSL :o)
But I think it is a little sad what they wrote and when I read that here are so many projects posted with thier designs: Why don't send aome pics to them? Let's erase the last sentence...
Greetings, Bettina

Thanks Deeside for the website address. I dont do FSL either, but did leave some feedback telling them how nice their site was and how generous it was that they offer designs for free.

Hi, as the owner of the design.tavernmaker.de site we thought that we should quickly comment on this thread.
First of all, thank you (-plus flower-) to the thread-starter for rising this issue on everybody’s behalf, and bringing back the awareness that "for free" does not equal "without value". We think everybody - including ourselves - every now and then falls into "greedily grapping all that is possible"-mode and this posting is a nice reminder that also in the huge anonymity of the internet there are always real people behind the pages. At this point, we would also like to thank “all others” for sharing their work, might it be images, designs or ideas, as those things are often the inspiring spark for our own projects.
As for our own page, it is true that all donations so far do not cover the costs of the webpage, nor would they finance our hobby, but then again, we never started this page with this intention. It is on purpose that we have put the statistics/feedback/donations page at a – hopefully – low profile position, as we do not want anybody to feel obliged to use it. By doing so we know that each feedback email reaching us has been sent with thought behind it, and that the sender really appreciates our pages. It would be dishonest to write that we don’t appreciate donations – it is always a big boost to our motivation and brightens our day – but we really believe that only a freely given, fully voluntary donation gives the money (whatever the amount) its value. Some people might regularly spend money on commercial designs. Receiving voluntary donations from those gives us a clear impression of how our designs are judged in comparison, which is obviously highly encouraging. Others might rather spend their money on actually creating things (with our designs) to share it with less blessed people, a fact which fills us with joy as well. An others again might simply not have the resources available, in which case we are even more glad to be able to provide them with our designs. All donations received so far – small or big – have really, really pleased us a lot, but we have also received several kind emails which pleased us as much, because we felt that the author had written it with true feelings. The important thing is that it is _you_, who feels the wish to thank us, and nobody else can judge better what is appropriate than you yourself. We also won’t be mad at anybody who doesn’t say thank you at all, as long as he sticks with the few rules we’ve laid out for our designs. (No commercial use. No file-sharing outside our site. No claiming of false copyright.) In short, we don’t want anybody “forced” into writing feedback or even donations for the false reasons, because we can thus appreciate everything we receive at its true value, and that pleases us a lot. As do, btw., all the nice comments we are reading from time to time here on cute.

I went to this site a long time ago and downloaded the designs and sent an e-mail and thanked them for the designs and she sent me back a really nice e-mail and I was going to donate. So I went back to the site and for some reason I got scared and didn't donate. I was brand new to freebie designs and was trying to figure out what sites were safe and which ones I could trust. Someone bought 6 cell phones with my husbands name so we are really leary and second guess everything now. I kept her e-mail for a long time and then truthfully was going to at least send stamps when I some how deleted it and because I had been to so many sites I didn't have the address any longer and hoped that I would come upon it some how! I remember thinking that I would be the first to stitch out something that had their designs on it something that they could post. But I fell and hurt my knee and spent the next 6 months on the couch!!! I had to keep my knee straight and couldn't bend it at all. I couldn't sit in any chair in my house and sew!!! So I had to wait. Now I feel like such a heel. But I am also so happy that you posted this!!!!!! I am on my way to donate right now!!!