Post #171695 by Tipsy McStagger on Wed, Jul 13, 2005 10:33 AM

basically, Mr. tsao said he was approached by someone who wanted to re-issue kahiki tiki mugs and product. He said okay, and this mysterious person proceeded to produce a limited # of mugs to sell through the store. All of this is fine , but somehow my necklace sculpt got used in the process...I'm sure it was a harmless mistake as the sculpter or whoever assumed that it was the property of the kahiki, since it was probably in a box of stuff used as references to reproduce the mugs and such. I opted not to pursue this legallly by choice, even though I had a strong case for it. Mr. Tsao meant no harm and rather than wreck our relationship over this misunderstanding I decided to let it go. This is too small potatoes for me to begin to throw money at my already expensive attourney to resolve all this. From where I stand, I made a bundle on the necklaces the first time around when I produced them years ago and count myself fortunate to have had the opportunity to not only make some money but to be forever a part of the kahiki legacy and history. This is why in the last thread a few months ago i gave my blessing to those that were selling them on ebay....Things like this usually happen eventually with product....These days it's a whore's market out there what with all this cheap tiki crap being produced, mostly by unoriginal bandwagoneering opportunists looking for a quick score on someone elses ticket. Geez, almost sounds like what I was doing with the necklaces years ago....only difference was that I was first to get that particular ball going on that particular product. getting permission to use their name and logo, shelling out for sculpts and masters to make molds from, etc. Sure, it would be easy for me to reproduce the necklaces again myself and sell them under some secret ebay name, undercutting all those other shuckers hawking them, but again, that's small potatoes and hardly worth the effort to make what, a few lousy bucks for the headache -no thanks. I hope this clarifies some things. Thanks for listening....