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Re: Selling MOC Instructions? Your Thoughts?
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Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:23:24 GMT
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Sun,

I'm not in the know so much about the custom industry, as I'm just getting
into it, but I would be interested in buying instructions, maybe not of the
Valk. but defintily of your Zaku, but that's beside the point.

I think that doing them in flash would be a neat way of presenting the
intructions, and very fresh and original, but maybe on the CD you could
include a printable version of the instructions? That way we could print out
the instructions at our own cost, to reduce the amount of work and hassle
for you, and it would lower your costs immensly to boot.

Just my $0.02,

BTW, do you have a link to your e-bay auctions?

thanks,

-Geordan-


In lugnet.general, Sun Yun writes:
Has anybody ever sold just instructions for an MOC they'll built.

If so are there any legal ramifications of doing so, especially in the
context of using LDraw/MLcad to generate the images?

Due to an overwhelming demand for two of my MOC outside the Lugnet community
I've been pondering doing this.

Why charge for the instructions you ask?  Well I'd like to think of it as a
way to support my hobby much in the same way people use Brickbay shops to
support there's.  It is definitely not a sustainable source of income by any
means.  This is also not a simple set of instructions either.  There are
about 500~600 parts and you'll probably find 10 bricks in there.

Here's the model:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=9143

If I do decide to do this, I intend to try to add as much value as possible.
I'll be creating interactive instructions using either Macromedia Director
or Flash and burning them onto pocket CD's.  Fully designed case, MOC
stickers, and reference pictures too.

In any case I wanted to ask everybody here on their thoughts.  I'm kinda
torn between just giving them out and charging for them.  It's always nice
to have a means to support an expensive hobby, at the same time it's also
cool to get things for free.

Let the discussion begin and thanks in advance.

sun



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(...) That is a fantastic suggestion!!! I don't know why I didn't think that before. Printable version on the cd, genius!!! PDF will probably be the best format to go with as it has good image quality, is printable, and cannot be modified. I can (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)

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Has anybody ever sold just instructions for an MOC they'll built. If so are there any legal ramifications of doing so, especially in the context of using LDraw/MLcad to generate the images? Due to an overwhelming demand for two of my MOC outside the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)

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