[Jewelry making - Article 00001] - Re: [Orchid] Designer Spying

[Mary Reiter]

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>     Please don't get me wrong I am not afraid of competition, but this
>     was done I think in a very underhand and devious way. Any opinions
>     anybody? 

    I think You are upset that she wasn't upfront with You at the start.
    If she introduced herself, would You still have been comfortable
    with her looking at Your line? This is a hard one to balance, I do
    fairly traditional jewelry, nothing You haven't seen before- and
    there are plenty of jewelers whose work looks similar to mine. I love
    looking at other jewelers work in fact I do it all the time (in books
    etc.) & yet I do feel uncomfortable when another jeweler looks at my
    line at a trade show unless I know their style is very different. I
    try to be open & OK about it but it doesn't come easily. They are the
    competition after all. But there's room enough for all of us. This
    woman wasn't honest with You so You immediately conclude that she
    did not have good intentions. I don't blame You for feeling like
    that. I personally wouldn't have shown up at someone's jewelry sale.
    It isn't polite. She wasn't there to buy anything after all. So if
    she wasn't buying then she was snooping. It was OK to call her on it.
    I'd leave it at that. 

Mary R
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