The Designer's Cut

crzy4xst · 2006-09-28T16:40:54+00:00

I've heard that a designer or two (or more) has been really upset to discover their charts are up for sale at Ebay, or at a discount at online sites. As a designer, ok, ex-designer cuz I just don't have the time currently, I'm confused by their attitude. My charts retail for $9-10 each, wholesale is half of that. Industry standard pricing. I sold them to my distributor at the wholesale rate, minus their cut. They sold them at the wholesale rate to the shops. The shops generally sold them at the $9-10, but it was entirely up to them what markup they put on them. They could charge more or less, if they felt it would help their business. Heck they could sell them at the wholesale rate if they wanted to, no profit for them, but hey, their business not mine! Thing is I got my cut up front. I do not have the right to another dime once my charts leave my hands. If someone decides they were not going to stitch my design afterall, it is 100% legal to sell the ORIGINAL chart on Ebay and try to recoop some of their stash money. I cannot suddenly demand that the seller give me a cut of what she gets. I got my money for that chart before it hit the store she bought it at. My distributor sold my designs to any shop that wanted to purchase them, that's how the business works, you meet demand. If the demand came from a brick-and-mortar shop or from an on-line only shop it didn't matter. We (the distributor and I) both made money, the shop got merchandise and hopefully sold the chart and made money too. Everybody's happy, right? If any shop wished to "kit up" my charts, more power to them! I didn't have the space, time or money to sell them as kits, so if a store wanted to take the time to do it for the convenience of the customer, it was fine with me! I'd gotten my cut afterall. How is it that other designers think that they should get more each time the same chart changes hands? Or think they have the right to say a shop can't kit up a design just because the designer...

Sep 28, 2006 61 Replies

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crzy4xst 19 years ago

Having a pretty good day, actually! No pain since the nighttime hours when I woke me with those fun occasional blasts of searing pain! I'm in a great mood today!

Caryn

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