inventory

I got this response back today:

Hi, I appre­ci­ate the work you put into your prod­uct and that you took the time to set up your shop and seek approval. Unfor­tu­nately, we are focused on “fin­ished” prod­ucts and do not yet have a place for won­der­fully hand­made sup­plies like beads and yarn.

There’s just one thing — they already have approved two lam­p­work bead artists who are sell­ing actual beads, not just fin­ished prod­ucts.? There’s also noth­ing in the terms of ser­vice, poli­cies, or any­where else that men­tions “fin­ished” prod­ucts.? So I ques­tioned the deci­sion. Nothing’s resolved yet in regards to the sup­plies issue, but I am going to take some decent pic­tures tomor­row of my “fin­ished” prod­ucts, post them, and see if I can get approved at least for those.

As far as I am con­cerned, it is 1000Markets’ choice whether to con­sider hand­made sup­plies as proper for their venue or not. It’s their site!? I just think there should be a def­i­nite pol­icy and they should adhere to it for every­one.? I’m going to feel like a real rat, though, if this pushes Andrea and Form­Fire Glass­works out of there. I didn’t raise the issue to try to screw them!

If the truth about my stuff was that they didn’t feel like my pic­tures (they do rather suck), or my work, is up to their stan­dards, then don’t B.S. me about it — that’s REALLY offen­sive. Tell me the truth, and I can either improve up to the stan­dard or move on.? Just DON’T feed me B.S.!!