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Fraudulent Activity - bead seller copied text from my website

Dear *austinhamilton*,

> > My name is Kandice Seeber, a lampwork artist. Be advised that you are > being reported for copyright violation. You blatantly stole words off of > my website. That is unacceptible.
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is a > section of my website that I wrote describing to my customers what > lampwork is. The description in your auction is copied from it word for > word. This will not be tolerated. Not only are you trying to pass off > imported lampwork as handmade from your own hands in some of your > auctions, but you are violating copyright. It's disgraceful and will not > be tolerated. ------------------------------------------ He replied:

------------------------------------------ Kandice,

I'm sorry for that. I indeed did copied this text from somewhere, however it wasn't your website. I guess someone else also copied it from you. I'll remove this wording from my listing as soon as I can. I'm afraid I can't change listings that already have bids. I understand that being an artist and selling beads too, you want to 'exterminate' the competition :)

Regards, austinhamilton

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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Exterminate the competition! Right......

------------------------------------------ Here's what I said:

Excuse me? Exterminate the competition? You aren't my competition. My beads are well made pieces of art, not imported junk. Your auctions will be shut down before they finish by ebay once I have finished reporting them for copyright violation. Copying text from other websites is against the law. As far as I know, you are the only person who has copied my text.

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People, please do not buy from someone who does business like this.

Reply to
Kandice Seeber
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What gall! Good luck on this one, Kandice...

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Reply to
Tinkster

Good for you Kandice!! I think you were really nice about it, too, and he's just an idiot.

Reply to
Jalynne

Go Kandice! What an ASS.

Reply to
~Candace~

Go Get Him!!!! Grrrrrrr... art theives... nasty slime! Go Kandice, Go Kandice! Diana

Reply to
Diana Curtis

Kick his ass, Kandice!!

Reply to
JoAnn Paules

KILL HIM !!!!!

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Just kidding /smile

Scott

Reply to
scott

LOL - thanks everyone. It just really chapped my hide. I provide a lot of good info on my website to fellow beadmakers and customers and visitors, and it really gets me when someone feels they can just swoop in and take whatever they want. I know it's done and should be expected, but that doesn't make me feel any better about it. I just hope ebay cooperates. :)

Reply to
Kandice Seeber

Heh heh heh

Reply to
Kandice Seeber

I'll have to forward that site onto my husband. Thanks Scott!

Reply to
JoAnn Paules

I want to swoop in and take whatever I want!!! Oh--you weren't talking about the beads, were you?

Reply to
~Candace~

ROFL!!!

Reply to
Kandice Seeber

As far as I am concerned, this guy should burn in hell. How stupid is he, anyway? ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Reply to
Dr. Sooz

Well done Kandice! At least he's not claiming (directly) that he made the beads.

I wonder....does batch annealing questionable beads really help? Just curious.

KarenK

Reply to
Karen_AZ

I dont know about stupid... he took a chance and figured he wouldnt get caught. What burns me is someone mistaking Kandice's generosity of spirit and abusing it. Im glad you brought it to our attention Kandice, because no one reading this group *or any other you alerted* would consider buying from this thief now. I believe its a very legitimate use of the group. Diana guns kill to fast... lets spit him and roast him over a lampworkers torch... or two.

Reply to
Diana Curtis

Kick his booty...and then kick him again.

Reply to
starlia

WHAT A FREAKIN' TOAD!!!!....good god, the NERVE!!!....

grrrrrrrrrrrrr

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

Reply to
LC aka Fiddy

They're good about shutting down copyright infringements. Since he admitted to you that he used your text, even if he claims he lifted it elsewhere, he's infringed upon your copyright. eBay can be slow but they do actually pay attention on occasion.

We could all ask him questions about his auctions and complain to eBay about inaccurate descriptions....

-Su

Reply to
Su/Cutworks

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:46:56 -0400, LC aka Fiddy wrote (in message ):

See, that's the part that upset me. Copyright infringement is common, and a lot of people just need to be educated that copying off a website is no different than stealing from my pocketbook. If he had apologized nicely and pulled the auctions (of course you can pull an auction before it's over!), it would have been a different story.

But making it sound like you were the guilty one Kandice, and were doing this as a marketing ploy - well, that's just crappy. I'm usually not in "crush, kill, destroy" mode, but this guy deserves it. Sweet chocolate jeebus! That a person would call themselves and artist in the same moment as they admit stealing someone else's art is unbelieveable.

Kathy N-V

Reply to
Kathy N-V

OMTP What a presumptuous snot. AS IF. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Reply to
Dr. Sooz

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