Damn POD people. . .

I have noticed an odd visitor in my etsy stats recently. . .well first it's odd when etsy gives you an actual traffic source.  I mean I only have 4 for all of last year.  So, when I noticed it a couple weeks ago it stood out and when the same one appeared in my stats multiple days in a row it became suspicious. 😒  I looked up the name and a google search basically says they are thieves and scammers. 😶

It's called dmmspy and basically they steal people's art and images to make t-shirts. It appears they are scraping images all over the web and offering them to others for POD shops. For those unfamiliar with POD people no I'm not talking about aliens I'm talking about people who use "Print On Demand" services to reproduce art that may or may not be theirs to use, AKA dirty rotten IP thieves and for those who don't know IP stands for Intellectual Property. 

The rainbowmaille.blogspot.com is from this Blog

The bit.ly is from the shortened links in my other social media posts

Now I would not care normally who looks at my etsy listings, all traffic is good, normally. 😕  But known images thieves looking at the same painting 5 days in a row is creepy and annoying and makes me think they plan to steal my art.  I wish there was a way I could block them from my listings.  I wish etsy had better security and did not allow right click image theft. 😠

I swear if my art ends up on a t-shirt I see for sale I will sue their pants off. 

Welcome to March. . .

Well, it's March and spring will come soon. . . I hope. 😎  I could really use some daily sunshine.  

I did manage to hit my 250 listing goal for my etsy shop, but just barely. 😉  Of course etsy has announced it's next ridiculous change and made me regret it but that's life on etsy you just never know what moronic over-reaching BS they will come up with next. However, cost vs. benefit when you consider traffic, options, etc., I will just have to put up with their crap I guess. 

I do not really want to go back to a stand alone site, constantly having to adjust, code, maintain crap, especially with payment processing compliance, security certs, privacy policy, liability for credit card fraud, sales tax, etc.,  😞 I will research current options as things have changed rapidly in the last 10 years, 5 years, heck even 2 years.  Everyone seems to like the idea of shopify but I'm not sure about it, honestly everyone seems to love amazon handmade but I do believe that amazon is evil and will be responsible for the destruction of our planet so I flat refuse to go there. 😏  And I felt that way before I read that horrifying article about how amazon sellers attack their competition and hijack other's listings and pay for fake reviews to get other's shops closed.   Prime and Punishment dirty dealing on amazon  😦 

Right now on a rainy Monday all I want to do is curl up in bed with my cats and nap the day away 😊 although I won't because that doesn't get things done and I have many many things to get done.