The flashden support team are just plain rude and lazy.

In essence (and yes I’m an FD author, kick me), if you are a true coder with original code, you can get good clientele from FD, since people will recognize this fact. There are a lot of crappy files on it, no doubt, which makes it easy for a true coder to stand out.

FD is not a place to learn code btw. People who buy files to learn code are waisting money indeed. That’s why the internet has different resources. FD is for lazy people who need a shortcut without having to know how to. Respect that, as is. (btw, if you have a ‘client’ who comes with FD stuff, you might consider stepping your game up a bit)..

Nobody made $200k in person btw.

Simply put, respect copyright and if you see it is infringed, make a hassle!

Good luck!

i cant believe how little respect some people have for you and your files. that is not nice!

i am a member of flashden, my progress is slow in sales but i assure you it is an honest living (from my side at least), not everyone on flashden are *ponies, i mean phonies i am a flash developer myself and i see how much money some of these people make, and i want to get on that train too. because
many of the files are so badly coded there is no room for adjustments, so i believe my code’s quality etc is prob better than theirs that is why i give it a try.

i also hope that my files dont become the village bicycle too because it is frustrating to know how much time it takes to produce somethin that gets nicked and given a new makeover and then resold for a markup.

although is there anyway you can expose these people?
i dont think it counts as slander if they are guilty, but it just makes us aware of who these people are (and gives me less respect for these people)… because on flashden there is definitely people who take other peoples files and tweak it a little or just make it pretty and make a living off this.

can u personal message me if you cant expose them publicly please?

hope to hear from you
thank you
hero.bambi

What sucks even more is showing up for a client-meeting and having the client hand over a pile of Flash components purchased off of FlashDen and being asked to piece together some congruent application outta unrelated, poorly coded/organized, often legacy, cheeseball FlashDen parts…

The tolerance threshold usually flips the switch at this point, and I hear the voice in my head speak: Time to drop this client…

I have ALWAYS been weary of sites like flash den offering what they call ‘quality’ actionscript classes for discount prices. It is sad how much money some of the programmers for these sites make. From what I have read in the comments on this post it sounds like just about everyone else’s experiences hae been much the same as mine. Crap code at a crap price!

It makes me really sad that people would take advantage of your generosity like this, and it really is folks like this who are destroying the actionscript community.

Please don’t let this deter you from continuing to be a driving force in the community… I know most of us programmers really appreciate your generosity with your time and knowledge!

Don’t stop the body rock!