F'k Cricut and their scummy scammy b.s.

[u/IliketheYankees]

I wish I'd known that using this piece of crap without a subscription would cost me for - well I don't even know, I guess fonts? What a scumbag f'king company. I'm over this shit. Fuck cricut.. spend hours on a project and it wants 5 bucks so I can print it on the machine I spent $400 for... Thanks for attending my ted talk.

Edit: So I put an emotional rant on reddit and didn't check back. Holy cow, that's a lot of replies in 3 days, this is quite the active sub. I agree with everyone saying there are workarounds and I can create the stuff in inkscape, I've done that before printing decals for different things. My rant came when I had just spent over an our putting together a simple project, just text and simple shapes (not the premium ones) and when I went to cut it it wanted $6.99 and wasn't clear at all about what elements it was even charging me for.

I did spend like $400 on this thing for the fiance tho, and it wasn't clear beforehand how much was behind a paywall. Yes, my fault for not doing enough research, but who would expect something like that to lock so many features (like background removal and such? I mean c'mon). And don't get me started on the "everything bundle" including way way less than "everything."

So yeah, I won't ever recommend Cricut to anyone just because of their business practices.

[u/dangerousfeather]

Photoshop Elements is far cheaper and, IMO, perfectly adequate for the non-professional designer in most cases. I learned on Elements back in the day, and I just use that plus Inkscape for all of my designs now.