Post #128775 by Lake Surfer on Fri, Dec 3, 2004 10:08 AM

On 2004-12-03 09:38, tikifreak wrote:
Lake, from that comment I guess we should expect to NEVER see your tikis on eBay right? I would hope not after a comment like that! No offense to you dude, but...are you sure your not pre-maturely cutting yourself off from a rather inexpensive worldwide advertising market to turn some off your stuff before even trying it?

eBay is not the only way or place to sell your stuff, so please don't get me wrong.

Lake, not everyone who aquires it's service is an offspring of other rip-off artist that happen to use the service.......so why should the people that use it properly be penalized in your eyes for things others have wrongly done. Does this make "me" and others on this forum who use eBay look bad to you? I just want to know......

I understand it's your own opinion and that's cool, but I say don't knock-it before you try it...

No offense Dave,

G.

Gary... I'm not saying anything against any artist here or otherwise who sells on Ebay... its not my cup of tea and I don't like how situations like this arise with people's art work. Someone is making money from Flounder's original artwork without his approval. Its not a copy, or a close resemblence... it is his artwork and his signature appears in the reproduction.

We've seen so many original pieces of art duplicated and sold on Ebay to unknowing buyers...

No offense to you if you want to sell there and no it doesn't make you look like a ripoff artist...

I guess seeing this and meeting Flounder in person really set me off on this topic... he deserves better and is a very talented artist.