Two recent notices:
2008-02-13
Designers: Valentines is likely to be a busy time for notices, so *please
* triple-check you added all the information you need to before pressing Send. Duplicate notices wear people down. Fresh-as-a-daisy shoppers will appreciate your notices more. And please! No notices with just landmarks!! 
http://fashcon.com/news – argh.
2008-02-15
I’m not sure how to not sound like a teacher, but since I reminded designers 3 days ago that the group rules they signed up to ask for NO landmark-only notices, about 20,000 have been sent. This Will Not Do and I’m pretty tired of IMing each and every one, so i’ll be removing designers who keep doing it from now on.
It’s in the FAQ, always has been, and if you didn’t read it you broke it. Don’t do what others do, follow the rules. That’s a rule too.
The rest of you I adore, so please ignore my moan. x
Here’s why it matters to you:
[17:37] Rav Hartunian: I like pics of pretty things to buy
[17:37] Hibiscus Flossberg: I’ll say it again here… If I get any LM-only Notices or just pictures or notecards with no pictures… I DELETE, DELETE, DELETE. If you don’t show me what you are selling I don’t come to your store.
[17:41] Tamsin Starbrook: for me it’s, no piccy, no looky
Response to landmark-noticers I sent is below the cut, if anyone I sent to missed it (mild grr, followed by whimper).
Hello,
If you received this notecard, it’s because you sent out a landmark-only notice to FashCon in the last couple of weeks. I’ve sent three appeals and a lot of private IMs in the last few weeks asking designers to stick to the FashCon rules on notice content, but the message clearly isn’t reaching some, thus this notecard as a means to talk to those who may have notices turned off. Please read to retain FashCon designer status.
Please could I ask you all to re-read the FashCon rules for designers – it won’t take long, and explains why these rules exist, why they are good for the group (and therefore you) and why breaking them may directly harm your business. They’re at:
http://fashcon.com/faq/#designers
and summed up in the four rules:
Rule No.1: no more than 1 notice/week
Rule No 2: only new releases
Rule No.3: only fashion and av-related items
Rule No.4: always send pictures
(but please go and read why). Do so to retain your designer status: I’m going to have to start removing designers who don’t do so, as the workload of IMing everyone individually is too high now. These rules haven’t changed, regardless of what you see others sending: I’m IMing them too.
Please also don’t take offence at this message. Many of the people I am sending this too are on my list of favourite designers, and some are personal friends. This note, and my subsequent actions are just a means to try to keep FashCon going. Some of you I may have spoken to about this already, in which case thanks for your response. Some may have sent a one-off LM-only notice by mistake, or some as a correction. If so, mistakes are understood, and no further action required than please to triple-check next time before sending.
If you do have FashCon notices turned off, please check the FashCon News page regularly for admin notices I will send out about group events and important administration at:
You can add this to your RSS feedreader if you like: http://fashcon.com/feed/
Finally, please remember that notice content isn’t just about keeping FashCon palatable for what people signed up for: I’m told many many times by frustrated buyers that they simple won’t go near shops that send landmarks. Sending full information on your releases and tasty snaps will sell your designs. If you can’t face taking snaps please don’t send a notice to FashCon until you find time to do so.
Please don’t feel you need to reply to this notecard (and please don’t IM me – I’ll lose it). There’s no need for any action than to read the rules and remember when you send a notice. Thanks for participating in FashCon.
Honey Fairweather
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