Please take this the right way.
There has been an increase recently in designers sending notices about good causes: anti-piracy, pro-charity, etc. While I appeciate the intent is good, and support these causes, please understand that we have 650 designers all of whom have causes they believe in. If FashCon becomes a conduit for such, buyers will leave and we lose our focus. FashCon is specifically *not* a conduit for designers to talk to each other, but to buyers. Please check the faq, and don’t hate me.
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P.S. I’ve had many responses to the notice above, a few examples below. Designers, please beware of how your well-meant but misdirected notices are being perceived and the effect on buyers to you personally and the group as a whole. Honey.
“Thank you, Honey, for your recent group notice. I was thinking about leaving the Fash Consolidated group precisely because of the innundation of messages unrelated to the buying audience and because of what increasingly looked like an abuse of the im channel for the same purposes. Your reminder to the designers to remember who the audience is (not them, but the buyer) is very much appreciated. Their designer-specific messages smack of spam to those of us who joined this group *solely* to learn about new fashion releases. Thank you again. Please do feel free to use my statement. I feel very strongly about this, and were it not for your reminder, I would have left.”
Group IM:
[9:01] Bara Hykova: causes on a different podium please
[8:58] Cakes Destiny: As a Buyer, I would like to say that I am sick and tired of getting what I DID NOT bargain for.
[9:22] JuliaLyn Demina: I second that Cakes !!!!
[9:22] Morgana Fillion: seconded. while you may think I *need* to know about all of this, I’m signed up to get fashion notices.
