Found this on the net thought it was worth posting here,
******WELL WORTH A READ TROOPS****** A lady wanted to purchase a beautiful hand crocheted dress and spotted a crafter who did absolutely amazing work, but she charged a good price too. The lady thought that her price was way too high so she approached the crocheter and in quite a brusk fashion stated "I want to buy a dress from you, but I think you charge too much." The crafter was a little taken aback but replied "Ok, how much do you think i should charge?" The lady replied “I think you should charge “X” much, because the yarn will cost this much, and ribbons this much, and buttons this much. I even factored in the price of scissors." The final price the lady had calculated was a lot cheaper than the crafters original price, but she said "Ok, deal. You will get your dress in a week". The customer is very pleased with herself and can’t resist telling all her friends what a fabulous deal she has negotiated and how smart she is, and that in a week she will have her gorgeous crocheted dress. A week later her parcel arrives in a lovely packaged box. She opens it and inside is yarn, ribbons, buttons and even scissors. Angrily she contacts the crafter asking “How could you do this to me? I asked you for a dress and you sent me a box of yarn, ribbon, buttons and scissors?!" The crafter quietly replies "My dear, you got exactly what you paid for, if you think there is something missing, you need to pay for it. "Moral of the story, when you buy handmade you are not just buying the materials you are buying the crafters, time, effort, love and dedication that goes into making your items.
I wonder, how many of us think about what I have just written with the digitizer in mind. When a digitizer begins with the blank screen – there is so much time spent in thought and that is just the beginning of a design. It is a very long process. There are hours spent with the thread path and direction as well as which fabrics will work and which stabilizers are needed. When the design is completed on the computer – it isn't finished yet. The digitizer will spend a great deal of time and materials testing and editing the design. Each time they test it – they must use stabilizer and fabric. They spend a lot of time and money (in materials) just testing the design.
I guess what I am saying is, we need to remember the work that goes into a design before we receive it. Good designs are not digitized in seconds with an auto-digitizer. They are crafted for hours, staring at the computer screen, making tiny adjustments. Most of us get very good designs for free. Do we think about the time and money they spent crafting?
The next time you get a good design for free or cheap – please thank the digitizer for spending their time and money on your design.
This comment was not meant to offend anyone. I only want you to think about it.
Hugs to all my Cute friends!
Thanks again.
WHILE I worked on the item they were having me make, they would come to my home and work their way down my chore list ... hour for hour.
Well...guess what happened? You guessed it...NO MORE INQUIRIES from the cheap (wealthy) folks! EASY SOLUTION! I didn't have to be the "bad guy" by saying no and they found other suckers to do their work.
After such great success with that scenario I began applying the same arrangement to folks who wanted me to help them with their computers/printers (I'm a early-retired computer technologist/analyst). Oddly...SAME result! Makes it so much easier than telling them I left the industry early for a reason...I would MUCH rather be crafting!
CRAFTERS UNITE! :-)