Stolen pictures....again. Make sure your beads aren't here!

Kandice -- thanks for exposing this here! So sorry this has happened to you, AGAIN.

Becki

:) Yeah, I'm getting used to it, and that's just sad. Thanks, doll.

Erf! That sucks! I'm glad that you were able to find them out - with all the bead websites out there, it seems like a needle in a haystack.

Best, Christine

which ones? is there anything you can do about it?

Third row down, first pic - they're all mine. Fourth row down, first pic - the bead set at the bottom of that one is mine.

Since it's an Italian website, basically all I can do is send a cease and desist letter. Which I've done.

:) Thankfully it's usually my customers or visitors to the website who find these. I've only ever found one on my own, and it was by accident.

Here's what I don't get about why they bother - if you click the links under the pics, all you see is the mass produced stuff. I mean, it's great that they're not copying your actual beads, but it's like they're using your pics just to get folks to click on the link, looking for beads that don't exist there.

Not that I'm an advocate of trying to steal someone else's designs, but it would *almost* make sense to steal the pictures, in that case. At least then, you wouldn't have to also know how to photograph beads.

It's bad enough to be a thief, but this seems stupid on top of it.

I'm just sorry you have to go through it again.

Cheers, Carla

Kandice Seeber wrote:

Take heart from one thing, Kandice. These guys make you look good. Not by stealing your photos, but by showing how ridiculous and low quality their beads look next to yours.

Sharon in AZ

That's what I thought, too, Sharon. These guys are just making themselves look even worse by putting that mass-produced (and ugly) junk beside Kandice's beads. First they steal Kandice's pictures, then they use them for bait-and-switch. Really nice guys.

You're right not to worry much about this, Kandice. Great beads can't be mass-produced. Nolly

Yep, this is my theory, too.

I didn't think of that - thanks, Sharon! :)

Maybe you should start putting a water mark of some kind on your pics, or figure out to upload them so that they can't be copied - I know there's a way to do this, just don't know exactly how.

My pics are all watermarked - they find ways to edit that out, unfortunately.

Oh gosh, I'm glad you have people looking out for you :-)

I can spot a few Chinese beads in there too, under the 'fancy' link, in the beads they are actually selling. Who knows if you'd get anything at all if you bought from them but clearly they are lying on at least two counts.

Ingrid