Disappointment

  I'm sure some of you are wondering what I am still doing at home when I'm suppose to be helping our

daughter, her husband and children get settled in their new home. Two days ago when I spoke to Emily

she wondered if we would mind if they waited until Friday to make the move. She had some unforseen

things come up and felt it would be better to delay the move by a couple of days. I agreed. And, as I

told her, I've waited years for this to happen-two more days isn't going make any difference for me.

See this dancing plate? He's so happy he's jumping for joy. That was me last week when I had finally

copied all of the patterns I was currently going to place on Etsy. Now all I had to do was copy and store

them so they would be ready to send when the orders started flowing in. Now keep in mind this was over

150 pages to copy and store. I entered them all PDF. Now I'm ready to finally open that Etsy shop.

I go to the Etsy site, set-up my shop, and am ready to attach photos of my patterns for the shop.

Rejection! It will not accept PDF. I have to go back and recopy all 150 plus patterns in JPEG!

OK, stupid mistake. I should have been smart enough to have known if it's considered a photo

you're going to have to use JPEG. Well it was disappointing, but nothing more than a little bump

in the road. I re-entered everything JPEG and began tranferring to my shop. This was over the course

of 3 days. On the day I was entering my last pattern (this last Monday) I had noticed that I had

already had over 140 views combined on my patterns, but no sales. I thought that was odd, but

I often view items but don't purchase them. But as the day progressed I just couldn't get it out of

my mind. You know how something keeps niggling in your mind?

I felt like I had touched a hot iron! What if there was the possibility that a person could copy my patterns

right off of my site?  No that's just crazy thinking , I told myself. Etsy is a highly respected selling engine, they would surely provide protection against possible down-loading theft. But my experiences from the past told me to check it out whether I thought it was just some crazy thought or not.

I went to my site, clicked on my pattern photo, and was able to print the pattern easy as pie! I have to

admit I was equally furious and devastated. No I'm not exaggerating. All I could think of was all the time

and hard work I had put into preparing these vintage patterns to finally get to this place where I could

finally list them for sale and any Tom, Dick, or Harry could simply steal them with the simple click of

a button. I didn't know what to do. I ran out to the garage to share with my husband my findings. His

advice was to shut it down right now! But I had already paid over $23. in fees for the listings. He said

to just consider it a loss and find somewhere else to sale my stuff. I didn't want to give up that easily on

Etsy. So I contacted them through e-mail. Of course you can't talk to a human being anymore! That

was Monday and I still haven't heard anything back from them. I have done a little research and found

another selling site that is similar to etsy and it didn't have any protection against down loading theft

either. E-Bay does make it impossible to copy off of it's site, so that's a possiblity. But now I have to

learn how to list with them and that whole process is always such a pain for me.

Anyway I've had a good cleansing cry over the whole deal. I've stepped away from it for a couple of

days and decided I'm going to let it go until next Monday. I'll go enjoy seeing the grandkids for the

weekend and come back to examine it through fresh eyes. Hopefully, I'll have heard something from Etsy by then. I can't say that I'm putting much faith in thinking their going to change their site to accommedate little

ol' me. But I would think it would be something other Etsy shop owners would be concerned about too.

If any of you have any knowledge or advice about were I should go from here I would more than welcome it

And "thank you" for letting me vent my friends. I try not to be a "whiner". I guess I lost this battle though.