Uh huh, really sounds like it too. I'm glad all your chums over there think I'm a total prick for thinking such a simple, lousy idea up or thinking that it could ever be a 'big business' (I don't by the way, but it might be a small one
). They sound like a
lovely bunch. Fortunately, they didn't seem that interested anyway, so no real loss.
I'm not really sure that being called a prick is justified though. I've acknowledged that you're free to do these, anyone can download a line drawing and make it look like a technical drawing, and anyone with a laser machine can make them.
They take time to do properly though (those downloadable vector drawings are not brilliant quality usually, that's why I'm not using them), and having worked out the costs involved I know that they can't be sold as a viable product for £30, so I can't see anyone realistically being bothered to go to the effort I have. You've already stated you don't have the time to do these in any volume, so I'm not really
that fussed.
I've lowered my prices down to the minimum point that it is worth my time doing them. If people want to support the originator, that's awesome. If they'd rather have a cheaper copy, or have the means to make their own, that's cool too. They probably weren't going to buy one of mine anyway.
I'm not 'searching out every thread' either dude. People have seen me doing these, and have PM'd me when they saw you doing the same thing. I wouldn't have honestly noticed or cared otherwise. It was only when you hinted at making them for other people, that I thought it was a bit lousy on your part.
I like the suggestion to sabotage my Kickstarter with a competing one too. Lovely.