Store is Closed

You may notice that the links to my store have been removed. This is because there is no longer any content in my Zazzle store because Zazzle is run by a bunch of pansies. I would share my entire email correspondence with Zazzle, but their side of it is really boring, so i'm just going to post my final letter to them instead. I think it sums up the whole of the conversation pretty well. I've also included the offensive design after the text of the email for your convenience.

I really like how you guys start all your emails with "Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you." I'm more than happy to allow you to be of service to me, you just seem unwilling to take me up on that offer. In fact, you seem unable to vary in any way from a set of pre-defined and unhelpful templates. My sincerest apologies if you are not a robot, as you will no doubt be replaced by one who can perform your job functions at least as well as you can in the very near future.

I might have just missed it, but your email doesn't actually seem to address any of my concerns. Please allow me to bullet-point a few things from my previous emails, in case they weren't clear before. If my email is still confusing, perhaps it could be passed along to a human supervisor who is capable of understanding simple English.

-Doctor Who is a popular TV show which features an old-style British police box and occasionally angels. Both of these items are present in my design.

-The BBC did not invent police boxes or angels, and the popularity of Doctor Who does not somehow mean that they instantly own all artwork that contains them.

-Allowing anyone to claim that they own an artist's original work and then penalizing the artist without verifying the validity of the claim is immoral and unethical.

-I didn't actually bring this up in any previous emails, but i know that not even cursory research into the validity of this claim was ever made because a casual Google search can tell you that the name of the show is Doctor Who, not Dr. Who as you have been misspelling it.

-I am interested in hiring a copyright lawyer to protect my rights as an artist. However, i have little to gain from such a venture because, altho several people have told me they like this design, they've also made it clear that they are not willing to pay Zazzle's exorbitant prices to have it on a shirt.

-I'm sure i will have no difficulties finding another company to produce my products at more reasonable prices. Altho this may result in having lower quality products, that's something i'm willing to sacrifice in exchange for doing business with a company that actually stands by the artists that create content for them instead of just allowing them to be bullied around.

In closing, i just want to make it clear that i harbor no ill feelings towards the producers of Doctor Who. I've carefully reserved all my negative emotions specifically for Zazzle, where apparently if you don't like a design, you can just claim that you thought of it first and it will immediately be removed, no questions asked.

If anyone knows of a good on demand apparel maker that i can go to now (especially one that does embroidery), that'd be fantastic. At the moment, getting some blue box tie tacks seems like a particularly shiny idea.