[Dravenheart]

I gotta agree. I mean, I typically try to stray from making anything I've seen before. Keeps my stuff different and I don't like it appearing as though I'm stealing someone else's idea. But, sometimes you can't help it. Like my Daken custom. I found out after I made it that it's almost an exact copy of what someone else did just a month or two before me. And these days I can't keep up with customs well enough to know if my work is copycat or not.

And, of course, if you sell on EBay and your custom goes typically over $100, you're almost guaranteed to have at least a dozen copycats trying to make the same amount.

I see it as just being a courtesy thing. But there are a lot of people out there not known for courtesy. Especially when it comes to potential profit.