Post #718800 by Badd Tiki on Sat, May 31, 2014 12:22 AM

Yeah that's kind of what I thought, some place in China... what can be done :(

Hopefully they just don't get any business. I guess the bright side is that most of your stuff is complex/shapely enough that it would be a pain in the butt to cast so they wouldn't want to anyway.

Hmmm.... Well, I think it was actually Pinterest, not Etsy, don't know why I typed that. I may be losing it.

Anyway, I think I had just searched 'Tiki' and just got aweful results. Barely anything near tiki, bunch of ugly stuff was there. Now I search Tiki and am actually getting a lot of good tiki stuff. Am I crazy? Or is it their search engine?

I did post a message on the pin though and said I was sure it was a rip off, and put a link to your site. So hopefully the board author deleted it and they could post links directing traffic to you instead.
Try as I might, I can not find that pin today.

I am seeing more of your work today though.

I guess the most we can do is inform people who the true artist is when we see these things and people who truly like tiki will do the right thing.

On a side note I had mentioned your mugs before at the studio (nobody is really into tiki there) but never had internet handy. Recently got a smart phone and showed your mugs to my instructor. He's been doing ceramics for 30+ years, can tell you anything you need to know, sometimes too much :D

He was pretty impressed :wink: