I was thinking, you could turn this into a business opportunity, depending on how you feel about it. "Please send me $100,000 and I'll be delighted to send you the instructions."bobtheenchantedone wrote:A woman messaged me on Etsy, linking to one of my bracelets. "Instructions on making this please" No salutation, no signature, no punctuation; just a blunt request that I teach her how to make an item I'm trying to sell.
At least she said "please" I guess.
You could modify the charge for this service depending on how much future business you think it would cost you. If you wanted to you could explain how your intellectual property is an important part of the business that you just cannot give away for nothing.
A long time ago (before the Internet) I had a friend who worked really hard to design and build a better wheat grinder. After proving that it worked really well he bought advertising. He bought a new, big mailbox to hold the hundreds of orders he imagined he would receive. All he ever got was a single letter with essentially these words, "Please send me the construction plans."