Anonymous
I had a terrible experience with red bubble. I spent a year uploading some highly complex designs. One of them took me two months. Then my hard drive crashed and with it I lost my link to the design freeware I used, to my email address where I'd backed up everything and of course, all the designs on my hard drive. Shortly after this I was suspended. No reason given. As I know I have not infringed on their policy, I don't understand why. There was a complaint that I had copied a leopard skin design, which I know to be false, because I didn't. The design in question was made before Redbubble even existed. It was originally a set of screenprint positives I drew by hand using toothbrush splatter. The report was probably a vindictive attempt perhaps to take out competition. No one owns the idea of leopard spots anyway. There has been fabric printed with leopard spots since my grand ma was cha-cha-ing in her bob in the 1920's. So I was banned without reason and there is no transparency, no explanation, no giving me a chance to take down a design that someone complained of, even if I know it wasn't copied. For example if a design is not selling it doesn't harm me at all to take it down, even if its ethically offensive to have to do it to keep out of the way of bullies. Recently I googled one of my old keywords and lo and behold my best selling design, copied and pasted shamelessly without alteration, was on 6 different accounts under that keyword. I sent screenshots, names etc. and they are still up and have not been removed. So redbubble brutally punish artists who don't copy without reasons given after a year of work invested, and some person with 10 designs who has just joined up is allowed to sell my art work. If there are so many it must be making some money but I get nothing. the cloak of anonymity behind all of this.... the fact that they had got hold of svg's which are not publically available.. perhaps sold as one of the well known 'design package' offers... but where do thieves get high res images and svg... dark dark it is, no transparency is a kind of darkness and breeds darkness .. gives me some very paranoid thoughts. Their ethics are certainly NOT PROVEN TO BE GOOD to say the least ... I suspend my case until I see alternative evidence.
2 months ago
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