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Okay, I'll say up front that today's annoyances are nothing compared to what most of you guys deal with, and I shouldn't be bothered, but AUGH they are driving me up the frigging wall and I swear sometimes I'm going to snap and track down and murder somebody if I hear "That's so expensive!" ONE MORE TIME.
So yeah. Last night before going to bed I posted a little journal/blog thingy on a furry gallery site, reminding people that I'm taking plush commissions and that I've got a couple of slots left for large projects this summer. It says that plushes are $x to $yxx, most are around $zxx, blah, blah, blah, and no I don't do adult stuff so don't ask. (Gotta put that in because although as I've said before, 95% of furries are decent, the other 5%... yeah, no.)
This morning I wake up and check the site to see if I got any interest, and there are two comments. Maybe, just maybe, one of them might be somebody wanting to buy? Alas no. One is somebody going "$YXX?! That's so expensive! I could buy $thingy for $YXX! OMG!" The other is somebody going "Adult plush? What is that? Does that mean you do X disgusting thing? Or Y disgusting thing? Tell me all about it!"
To the second person: If you are genuinely curious, ten seconds on google will cure you of that. Possibly it will cure of all curiosity forever, should you be of delicate constitution. If you want somebody to be horrified with you about how disgusting and gross it is, fuck off, I don't give a damn what weird crap people get up to, I just don't want to be involved in any way. And if you want to be titillated by the sexy details, REALLY fuck off, I'm not giving you wank material!
To the first person: I HATE YOU. I HATE YOU SO MUCH I HAVE NO WORDS FOR MY HATRED! Get some fucking manners. Also get a fucking BRAIN. Yes $yxx is a lot of money. It's THE MOST EXPENSIVE SORT OF PLUSH I MAKE for god's sake. It says so RIGHT THERE! They're so big I almost can't ship them overseas* and they're super detailed, and they take me a week's worth of work! It's going to be a lot of money! DUR. If you want a giant plush made from CRAP fabric that will fall apart a month after you get it, that's completely generic and exactly like the billion other plushes they sell at the billion other stores, you can spend thirty bucks at WallMart. If you want a lumpen mess of nasty fleece that will fall apart the DAY you get it you can hire some amateur with delusions of being a crafter. But if you want quality custom giant plush I am the FUCKING cheapest option OUT THERE. BY FAR. So get some fucking class and just pass quietly if that's more money than you have, whining at me about it will NEVER make me lower my prices, it will only piss me off. In fact I might just charge you EXTRA if you ever do actually commission something, for the hassle of putting up with your miserable self. Except that will never happen because you'll never have any money. You'll just keep whining at me forever and ever and ever, and never spend a cent.
*ahem* Yeah. I know I'm getting all worked up over nothing, but I am SO, so, so, so, so, so, so sick of the "That's so expensive!" reaction every time I mention my prices. NO. IT'S. NOT. Not for what you're getting. You CANNOT find what I do cheaper ANYWHERE. RAGE!
Venting feels good.
And I actually did get a third message, which did express interest in possibly purchasing, so my day wasn't entirely full of hate.
And now, a bonus WTF, also from yesterday.
I'd uploaded a photo of a plush I just finished to said gallery site. In the description I mention I made it as a trade. So somebody comments saying "You do trades? OMG! That's great! What do you want in trade?"
I respond and explain that mostly I trade for rare things for my collection**, which otherwise I couldn't afford, and also occasionally for quality art that I really like.
"Oh. Well, my art isn't good enough to trade, I know that, and I don't own anything at all except my books that I love too much to give away."
So I explain that there is another option, you can buy something for my collection, and I'll trade for it, and I'm pretty generous about the value, that's still cheaper than commissioning.
"No, I'm completely broke, that's why I was so excited when I saw you do trades."
None of this makes any sense to me! You know your art isn't good enough to trade, and you own nothing you can trade, and yet you were excited when I said I did trades? What exactly did you plan on trading me then? I am just completely baffled by this person. Seriously I am. Maybe I guess they were hoping I'd say "I trade for middle-school level drawings of anatomically dubious dragons"? (That's what their gallery was full of. Nothing wrong with anatomically dubious dragons, I've drawn many in my day, but they're right that it's not something you can trade for a hundred bucks or so worth of custom plush.) I am not annoyed at them at all, just completely puzzled by the whole thing.
*I shipped a plush last week that after my SITTING on it to stuff it into the box was exactly the maximum size to send. If it had been one inch bigger, it wouldn't have gone. And the max shipping sizes via USPS are actually pretty generous. These things are BIG.
**And lest you're sitting there thinking that I collect priceless antiques or fine art, I have to confess that mostly I collect rocks, certain fantasy dragon sculptures, certain Lego, and japanese pokemon plush. I am not highbrow.
So yeah. Last night before going to bed I posted a little journal/blog thingy on a furry gallery site, reminding people that I'm taking plush commissions and that I've got a couple of slots left for large projects this summer. It says that plushes are $x to $yxx, most are around $zxx, blah, blah, blah, and no I don't do adult stuff so don't ask. (Gotta put that in because although as I've said before, 95% of furries are decent, the other 5%... yeah, no.)
This morning I wake up and check the site to see if I got any interest, and there are two comments. Maybe, just maybe, one of them might be somebody wanting to buy? Alas no. One is somebody going "$YXX?! That's so expensive! I could buy $thingy for $YXX! OMG!" The other is somebody going "Adult plush? What is that? Does that mean you do X disgusting thing? Or Y disgusting thing? Tell me all about it!"
To the second person: If you are genuinely curious, ten seconds on google will cure you of that. Possibly it will cure of all curiosity forever, should you be of delicate constitution. If you want somebody to be horrified with you about how disgusting and gross it is, fuck off, I don't give a damn what weird crap people get up to, I just don't want to be involved in any way. And if you want to be titillated by the sexy details, REALLY fuck off, I'm not giving you wank material!
To the first person: I HATE YOU. I HATE YOU SO MUCH I HAVE NO WORDS FOR MY HATRED! Get some fucking manners. Also get a fucking BRAIN. Yes $yxx is a lot of money. It's THE MOST EXPENSIVE SORT OF PLUSH I MAKE for god's sake. It says so RIGHT THERE! They're so big I almost can't ship them overseas* and they're super detailed, and they take me a week's worth of work! It's going to be a lot of money! DUR. If you want a giant plush made from CRAP fabric that will fall apart a month after you get it, that's completely generic and exactly like the billion other plushes they sell at the billion other stores, you can spend thirty bucks at WallMart. If you want a lumpen mess of nasty fleece that will fall apart the DAY you get it you can hire some amateur with delusions of being a crafter. But if you want quality custom giant plush I am the FUCKING cheapest option OUT THERE. BY FAR. So get some fucking class and just pass quietly if that's more money than you have, whining at me about it will NEVER make me lower my prices, it will only piss me off. In fact I might just charge you EXTRA if you ever do actually commission something, for the hassle of putting up with your miserable self. Except that will never happen because you'll never have any money. You'll just keep whining at me forever and ever and ever, and never spend a cent.
*ahem* Yeah. I know I'm getting all worked up over nothing, but I am SO, so, so, so, so, so, so sick of the "That's so expensive!" reaction every time I mention my prices. NO. IT'S. NOT. Not for what you're getting. You CANNOT find what I do cheaper ANYWHERE. RAGE!
Venting feels good.
And I actually did get a third message, which did express interest in possibly purchasing, so my day wasn't entirely full of hate.And now, a bonus WTF, also from yesterday.
I'd uploaded a photo of a plush I just finished to said gallery site. In the description I mention I made it as a trade. So somebody comments saying "You do trades? OMG! That's great! What do you want in trade?"
I respond and explain that mostly I trade for rare things for my collection**, which otherwise I couldn't afford, and also occasionally for quality art that I really like.
"Oh. Well, my art isn't good enough to trade, I know that, and I don't own anything at all except my books that I love too much to give away."
So I explain that there is another option, you can buy something for my collection, and I'll trade for it, and I'm pretty generous about the value, that's still cheaper than commissioning.
"No, I'm completely broke, that's why I was so excited when I saw you do trades."
None of this makes any sense to me! You know your art isn't good enough to trade, and you own nothing you can trade, and yet you were excited when I said I did trades? What exactly did you plan on trading me then? I am just completely baffled by this person. Seriously I am. Maybe I guess they were hoping I'd say "I trade for middle-school level drawings of anatomically dubious dragons"? (That's what their gallery was full of. Nothing wrong with anatomically dubious dragons, I've drawn many in my day, but they're right that it's not something you can trade for a hundred bucks or so worth of custom plush.) I am not annoyed at them at all, just completely puzzled by the whole thing.
*I shipped a plush last week that after my SITTING on it to stuff it into the box was exactly the maximum size to send. If it had been one inch bigger, it wouldn't have gone. And the max shipping sizes via USPS are actually pretty generous. These things are BIG.
**And lest you're sitting there thinking that I collect priceless antiques or fine art, I have to confess that mostly I collect rocks, certain fantasy dragon sculptures, certain Lego, and japanese pokemon plush.
I am not highbrow.
Tails and ears only need 2-3 weeks lead time. 
How do they expect you to respond to that?! "Oh, golly, you're so right, I shouldn't be paid for the xx hours I put in making it and the aa quality materials I used. How 'bout I sell it to you for $5?" Um, yeah, right, welcome to reality, SC. 
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