I smell burning pants.
Listing
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My question
Dear ferrarigirl100,
Hi You appear to be offering pumpkins carved with Zombiepumpkins.com patterns. If you read the terms and conditions when you purchase your pattern membership , you will clearly see that this not acceptable.
- matspud
her response
Dear matspud,
How disappointing to receive an email such as this! I have been given some patterns and pictures by a friend in good faith. You have made a HUGE assumption that the intention was to make money and keep the proceeds - in fact a percentage of any money made was going to be given to a local children's hospice (wholly dependent upon any take up of my advert which is why it is not mentioned as I would not intend to mislead people by promising such or gain sympathy from such a statement). I understand your intention is honorable HOWEVER making assumptions about people when all you base your comments on is an advert is astoundingly misguided. Hope you find a better use for your time - perhaps challenging your energies in to volunteering for a local charity?
My problem is that she shows the thumbnails from the website, including this years minion. Therefore she knows about the site and is capable of reading the rules. Also I don't think I make any assumptions apart from the fact that she maybe paid Ryan for his patterns - which does not seem to be the case. All I do is state that the use of the patterns is not allowed. Finally - if it is all above board why did she remove my question
All sounds a bit fishy to me.
Ok, I couldn't let it go
- my response
Dear Ferrarrigirl, I am sorry you were so offended by my comment. I was just trying to warn you that the material you are using is copyrighted. The ONLY assumption I made was that you possibly paid the designer for his patterns. The fact that you got the patterns from a friend ( like many others) can lead to issues of copyright infringement. The use of thumbnails from the website gave the impression that you know of the source of the patterns. I commend your attempts to raise money for good causes and I suggest you get in touch with Ryan at ZombiePumpkins to discuss the use of his patterns in this venture. Good luck with your fundraising and have a spooktacular Halloween.
- matspud