Fraudulent Activity - bead seller copied text from my website

Not in my opinion, no. Once a bead has a stress fracture - no matter how small - running it through an annealing cycle is not going to fix it. You would have to heat the bead up to the point where the glass is melting and then cool it slowly.

:) I haven't said anything anywhere else. I just hope his auctions get pulled.

And I have searched (with someone's help) over the web to find my text anywhere else, and none of the engines I used found it anywhere but on my site and in his auctions.

I'm not sure what you mean. My request was for people to refrain from buying from him - him being someone who does business like this. Maybe I wasn't clear - I ask that people refrain from buying beads from this person because he infringed on my copyright.

Your welcome hon.

You know, I've thought of buying beads from him. I'll see one thing I like and look at his other stuff. But there's always been this questionable aspect of the things he offers, if not for the thing I'm looking at, then for other items he has up. Thanks for putting us on to him. His reply to you ("EXTERMINATING competition") is revealing of his character.

You know, if it was a good beader using your information, it wouldn't have been so creepy. Except, of course, a good beaders wouldn't steal your text!

Tina

He's not even at the bottom of the chain! BTW, I get the feeling that english is not his first language. I thought that when I read his auctions too. My guess is that he copies because he knows he cannot express himself as well otherwise. Too sad, too bad.....busted.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :

]I'm not sure what you mean. My request was for people to refrain from ]buying from him - him being someone who does business like this. Maybe I ]wasn't clear - I ask that people refrain from buying beads from this person ]because he infringed on my copyright.

i thought i was responding to the last bit - "People, please do not buy from someone who does business like this."

and my only point was, *most* people wouldn't know he or anyone else WAS doing it. or about any of the other sellers anywhere on the net. you think we have 'clueless newbies' in here sometimes. that's nothing compared to the ones out on the rest of the 'net!

Right....I know this. I wasn't assuming people knew he was doing it - that's why I was informing people. I think you missed my point - or I'm missing yours, either way. :)

I think "exterminating" him is a jolly good idea!

Anyone have some Raid?

Cheri (Bubbee to Emily and Nathan)

Aside from the copying problem....why do most of those beads look exactly like stuff I buy wholesale? I'm not talking "made in the USA" here either.

Look at this set - one bead actually has a popped bubble on the surface. Yeesh. No self-respecting beadmaker would sell that bead. I hope this link works.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :

]Right....I know this. I wasn't assuming people knew he was doing it - that's ]why I was informing people. I think you missed my point - or I'm missing ]yours, either way. :)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :

]Right....I know this. I wasn't assuming people knew he was doing it - that's ]why I was informing people. I think you missed my point - or I'm missing ]yours, either way. :)

the ONLY reason he was ever caught was because YOU PERSONALLY looked at his ad. i'd bet even people here who looked *didn't* know that copy was yours! that's more what i meant. unless someone specifically points it out, even we won't know.

I asked Austin about a set of beads (obvious imports) in one of his auctions -- "Who made them? Did you? If not, who did?" and he said an artist friend of his in Vancouver made them. (SO obvious they were imports.)

This guy is just not doing right by any of his customers. I wish we could out him to the world. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Yeah, that's because he is full of blow! What a nerve!!

Go get him Kalera!

Mavis

Duh! Sorry Kandice! Kandice... Mavis... get it right!!!

Sorry bout that.. hit the send too fast!

Mavis

LOL! Hmmm, I wonder how he would think if he knew that you're FRIENDS with most of your actual "competition"? He's not competition, he's just annoying.

-Kalera

-snip-

Soooo... Kandice, can I have permission from you to copy a certain set of your black and lime beads from last year? I have an idea. It would be funny, nothing more, and you would have FULL credit for inspiring my work. :D

-Kalera