Since when to take money for your work

Greetings.

I have a hobby - this is cutting on a jigsaw machine.

At first I found drawings for cutting on the Internet, but still I like to develop my own.

With one of these my own developments, I even got into an American magazine. Scroll through the gallery.

Developing these kinds of toys is not easy. Sometimes there are 10 or more unsuccessful models for a finished, working toy.

So I did it with this little elephant.

In such puzzles, I take into account how the cuts should be made for the details of the puzzle, how it will turn out appearance with cuts, what the individual parts will turn out to be so that they remain strong and disassembled form.

I showed how such puzzles are made in several videos earlier on the channel.

I offer my developments on the Etsy site. I talked about this earlier. See the link at the end of the article.

This site is targeted at foreign buyers.

I tried to sell the developed drawings in our market, but the demand is very low, even for a lower price.

So where does self-interest, money-grubbing, etc.

Sometimes letters come in which they ask me to send the drawings developed by me for free.

This situation puzzles me. A stranger asks to send him just the results of my work, on which I have spent considerable time and effort.

It's like, for example, come to Fix Price and tell the seller that he really liked this toy and ask him to give it away. What will the seller say ...

In response, I usually give a link to my store on Etsy and additional links where you can download my free templates.

Back, I get accusations of greed, that I have one "loot on my mind" and similar things.

I will give an example of recent similar letters.

"I really liked your hippo. could you throw me a blueprint? "

In response, I posted links to the Etsy store and my free templates. And I get back like this.

"You don't have to be a toad because of such a trifle.

Two hours of work in the graphics package and you're done.

I also made a shark.

I design ANY 3d puzzle models for making with a jigsaw. Order.

Wait a minute, I'll post it on my website ...

... I wanted to make friends, but you have one loot in your mind... Well, well ...

... my colleagues have already thanked me for the laid out drawings of a hippo and a shark

I am retiring from subscribers. "

That is, a person, using my video clips, with the help of a graphic editor, copied my drawings and began to distribute them, and also boasts that he will make such things to order on his website.

Is this normal?

Another example from the comments.

For the babos drawing??? Where are the selfless people? Where are you???

This is for my video about making a 3D puzzle, in the description of which I gave a link where you can buy a drawing.

Such situations do not happen so rarely: writes quite a stranger to me and asks me to send him the drawings, when I refuse, similar accusations are poured in response.

This situation is incomprehensible to me, from the word at all. Why should I give the results of my labor to someone just like that? Why do these people even have such a thought: "I liked it, you give it back." Where is the normal exchange. Even in early childhood, it happened that they changed something with their friends, it was that they changed, and they tried to bypass those who were jackals. This has now become the norm, to beg, I motivate this by the fact that "I want to make friends."

Yes, I can send my work as a gift. But these are people with whom I have been communicating for a long time, with whom we discussed problems, shared ideas that do not expect anything from me.

What do you think about these situations?

The article I mentioned earlier:

Additional income for a hobby. I share my experience

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Alexander.

P.S. I also invite you to your site.