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I suppose this isn't exactly sucky as such, it's not somebody being rude or anything, it's just one of my HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE pet peeves.
Customer, in response to seeing one of my lovely, hand-made, cuddly and cute, "Loonakit" plushes, which are little ball-shaped creatures:
"OOO I JUST HAD AN IDEA! you could make these things balls! like throwing balls they look like balls and if you firm up thier insides with a striafoam stuffing kids could use them for throwing balls, or dog toys."
Oooo, I just had an idea too! My idea is this: If you REALLY think that's so brilliant, DO IT YOURSELF. And I will laugh as you fail completely to make any money doing it.
Look, the market for "stuff that kids can throw" is saturated. Beyond saturated. There is just no point in my even trying. Any sane person who wants a ball they can throw (especially if they want a dog toy!) can go to WalMart and spend less than $5 and have a huge selection of all kinds of things to choose from. Hell, you can get a ball to throw for $.50 from a gumball machine! The particular ball plush you are commenting on costs $40! Nobody is going to spend $40 to get something they can throw!
And these are hand sewn! They are works of art! I do NOT want to market them for people to give them to their dogs! Have you ever SEEN a dog with a plush toy? Sure a few dogs carry it around cutely and just get drool all over it, but most DESTROY them. In minutes, even. $40 for two minutes worth of canine entertainment? Nobody is going to pay that! Trying to market these as playable toys for kids or dogs is RETARDED. STUPID. IDIOTIC. MORONIC. Shall I keep going? It's just plain dumb! No child who wants to fling things around even HAS $40 to spend! At least none that I've ever met.
These are marketed as special, one-of-a-kind, made-to-order art creations that you can cuddle, mostly to adults. They are not toys!
I tried to gently explain this to the customer, but they just replied that they thought they'd sell better if people could do something with them besides just sit them on a shelf. *sigh* I ALREADY market them as something you can do things with, they are for CUDDLING. Gentle cuddling that won't hurt them or ruin them or get them torn to sad little pieces by your dog.
And I really am tired of people who think they've thought of some WONDERFUL idea that will just help my business SO MUCH! It's not ideas I'm lacking. I have more ideas for stuff I want to try out than I know what to do with! In fact I'm not lacking anything, not customers, not income, not anything at all except maybe time, since I'm so busy I hardly ever get to take a day off!
(I'm sorry I keep ranting about stupid stuff that's not actually that sucky here. :P )
Customer, in response to seeing one of my lovely, hand-made, cuddly and cute, "Loonakit" plushes, which are little ball-shaped creatures:
"OOO I JUST HAD AN IDEA! you could make these things balls! like throwing balls they look like balls and if you firm up thier insides with a striafoam stuffing kids could use them for throwing balls, or dog toys."
Oooo, I just had an idea too! My idea is this: If you REALLY think that's so brilliant, DO IT YOURSELF. And I will laugh as you fail completely to make any money doing it.
Look, the market for "stuff that kids can throw" is saturated. Beyond saturated. There is just no point in my even trying. Any sane person who wants a ball they can throw (especially if they want a dog toy!) can go to WalMart and spend less than $5 and have a huge selection of all kinds of things to choose from. Hell, you can get a ball to throw for $.50 from a gumball machine! The particular ball plush you are commenting on costs $40! Nobody is going to spend $40 to get something they can throw!
And these are hand sewn! They are works of art! I do NOT want to market them for people to give them to their dogs! Have you ever SEEN a dog with a plush toy? Sure a few dogs carry it around cutely and just get drool all over it, but most DESTROY them. In minutes, even. $40 for two minutes worth of canine entertainment? Nobody is going to pay that! Trying to market these as playable toys for kids or dogs is RETARDED. STUPID. IDIOTIC. MORONIC. Shall I keep going? It's just plain dumb! No child who wants to fling things around even HAS $40 to spend! At least none that I've ever met.
These are marketed as special, one-of-a-kind, made-to-order art creations that you can cuddle, mostly to adults. They are not toys!
I tried to gently explain this to the customer, but they just replied that they thought they'd sell better if people could do something with them besides just sit them on a shelf. *sigh* I ALREADY market them as something you can do things with, they are for CUDDLING. Gentle cuddling that won't hurt them or ruin them or get them torn to sad little pieces by your dog.
And I really am tired of people who think they've thought of some WONDERFUL idea that will just help my business SO MUCH! It's not ideas I'm lacking. I have more ideas for stuff I want to try out than I know what to do with! In fact I'm not lacking anything, not customers, not income, not anything at all except maybe time, since I'm so busy I hardly ever get to take a day off!
(I'm sorry I keep ranting about stupid stuff that's not actually that sucky here. :P )
That's the exact same response one of my best friends had to my griping about this! This kind of idiocy leaves one responding in strange ways, since I don't know that there is a normal response for it!
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