Rant #1 – FashCon

Looks like my first dabble in self-pleasure blogging is going to be a rant! Woo!

Probably not about what you might think – no, I’m not going to rip and tear at FashCon because I happen to love the group muchly, I think the idea and concept of it is brilliant – even on the days it gets really annoying with the high notice intake. I’m actually going to rant at all the stupid vendors who can’t seem to follow or understand some really really fucking simple rules. I’ve been bitching about this one for a couple of weeks now, poor Law gets to hear it daily – now you guys get to also!

I understand that the FashCon group has exploded recently because the designer applications have finally been reopened – I myself was recently readded, so I get that the amount of notices will increase now simply because there are that many more people wanting to let everyone know about their new releases. But ….some of you bastards are just fucking breaking the rules! Punks.

I was curious if my feelings and ranting were unfounded so I just did a quickie in the notice-history tab of the FashCon group, sorted them by ‘Name’ and in the top ten notices listed there is already a violation. Not going to name names because that would take all freakin’ day…lord people, what’s so hard to understand about sending ONE notice a week? And in my world, a week = seven days! I don’t care if you are busting out products five, ten a day and you think they’re amazing and everyone should know about them – guess what, if they are that amazing, people will still care to know about them seven days later.

If you are one of the guilty persons I’m talking to, please promptly punch yourself in the eye, and continue doing so every time you even think of posting a notice to FashCon before that seven days is up!

Oh and what about the fact that notices are for new releases! Not sales – if I see one more sales notice from FashCon I’m going to kill a kitten, I swear – please don’t make me do it. Dude, if you’re having a sale, why not tell your personal group about it instead?? The word will spread. And you know what, I don’t think that a sale is an excuse to break the seven day rule either. It’s ONE notice per week, regardless! One one one one one one one one one one one! Grr.

And those “oops I forgot to include XYZ” …oh.my.god. I seriously think some people do it on purpose. Do yourself a favor, write everything in a notecard, keep a checklist if you have to – have I said what needed to be said, have I included photos, have I stuck a landmark in there, okay good, now attach and send! Besides, those LM- only notices are really annoying anyway…chances are, unless I know your brand prior, if you don’t include photos of the products, I’m not coming to your shop.

 While I’m on the topic – people who dog FashCon because of the notices and how annoying they can get. I agree, totally annoying some days…especially on the weekends. Oy! But yanno, you do have the option to turn off group notices and browse at your leisure. Just an FYI. But yeah, feel free to continue bitching – I do. I’ll tell you one thing – no other method of advertising drops 20-30 people on my shop-steps in under 15 seconds. So stick that somewhere and smoke it.

This really isn’t rocket science – I actually suck at this, and I manage to freakin’ follow the rules and get it right the first time, most of the time – so I won’t accept any lame excuses on this one. Honey, if you ever read this and need some help modding that group – just drop me an IM, I will SO be the unmerciful hand of God on this one. Dooo eeeet, give me the powah!

 So…yeah, if yer a designer and looking for a great way to get your products out there – try the Fashion Consolidated group and follow the fucking rules or else!