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fleeces have eggs, and said there is no way to avoid<br />
moth eggs, and it is perfectly normal and acceptable.<br />
Being lovers of wool, we all know how awful and dangerous<br />
moth eggs are. The dismissal of any concerns<br />
over moth eggs is low. It is a perfectly valid concern,<br />
and I’m sorry, but if you are in the business of selling<br />
fleeces, you need to take moth eggs seriously.<br />
Sherry has also apparently engaged in dishonest<br />
business practices to damage her competition. She<br />
has allegedly done the following to several competitors:<br />
- Sherry and some of her supporters will join<br />
another shop’s social media group. Sherry and her<br />
supporters then message<br />
people who comment on the<br />
shop’s social media posts, implying<br />
that Sherry has a relationship<br />
with the shop and that<br />
she sells better and cheaper<br />
fleeces. Interested people are<br />
directed to Sherry’s group.<br />
Sherry and her supporters then<br />
block the shop owner on social<br />
media so they cannot see what<br />
she is doing in the shop’s group. Sherry and her supporters<br />
also report the shop and the admins to get<br />
their social media profiles suspended periodically.<br />
Some of the victimized shops have reported that the<br />
customer poaching has been so aggressive, they have<br />
seen sales drop by as much as 50 percent after 6-12<br />
months. The shop owners were baffled as to what was<br />
going on until their customers came to them about<br />
what happened when Sherry didn’t fulfill orders. Imagine<br />
having your own customers ripped off by another<br />
member of the fiber community and coming to you for<br />
advice and apologizing for believing Sherry. It is truly<br />
underhanded to engage in customer poaching in this<br />
way.<br />
- Dishonesty appears to be the modus operandi of<br />
Sherry Tenney. She has multiple shop names and social<br />
media handles.<br />
- She also has unnumbered sock accounts she will<br />
use to poach customers or watch what other people<br />
are doing on social media.<br />
- She goes by Sherry Tenney, Sherry Vondorp,<br />
Sherry Tenney Giltay, and Sarah Rudacille. She likely<br />
has other names that no one will ever know. Business<br />
names or social media handles she has used are Tenney’s<br />
Fiber Farm, McCullough Farms, Wool Hut, FlockofFlocks,<br />
Fiber Farms, Crabapplesheep, Base of the<br />
Mountain Farm, Fiber Friends, Dye House and Ms. Tuttle’s<br />
Sheep Farm, and Marylandlongwool.<br />
When customers follow up with Sherry on late orders,<br />
she strings them along until the dispute window<br />
passes, and the poor customers cannot seek relief<br />
from their credit card company. Stringing customers<br />
along to get out of dispute windows appears to be a<br />
common tactic of fiber scammers. Lady Dye and many<br />
others have done the same.<br />
Once Sherry came to the attention of the Demon<br />
Troll group on Ravelry,<br />
Sherry went ballistic. She<br />
attacked them and<br />
blocked anyone who<br />
would ask about <strong>issue</strong>s<br />
with her business. She<br />
even threatened to sue<br />
them. For what?<br />
The Sherry Tenney situation<br />
has been a huge<br />
focus of Demon Trolls in<br />
2022. There are two official alert threads and one “Just<br />
the Facts” thread. The alert threads have over 20,000<br />
comments. Lady Dye has paled in comparison to<br />
Sherry Tenney on the Demon Trolls. The Pennsylvania<br />
Attorney General has gotten involved. It is astounding<br />
that Sherry has managed to continue her business and<br />
poor treatment of others for over five years and is still<br />
selling wool. We at Blocked Magazine wonder how<br />
long Sherry will be able to string people along.<br />
With the current state of the economy, I cannot<br />
imagine that vendors in the fiber arts community who<br />
treat customers horribly like Sherry Tenney and Lady<br />
Dye will be able to stay in business for long. It really<br />
isn’t that hard to treat others kindly and to provide<br />
good customer service.<br />
There are all kinds of resources for small business<br />
owners to learn how to better run their businesses.<br />
There really is no excuse for poor business practices<br />
and poor customer service in the fiber arts community,<br />
and yet we see it over and over. The sad thing is that<br />
in certain corners of the fiber arts community, major<br />
players look the other way when certain particular<br />
business owners and knitfluencers treat others poorly.<br />
How about just do honest business?<br />
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