Chikitiki Miami tikimug

Chikitiki:

While visiting Maimi, I purchased a tikimug (Easter Island style) with your insigna on the bottom and bearing the catchy (or chessey) slogan: Miami, Florida."

I take it this is your baby?

[ Edited by: christiki295 on 2004-01-17 15:07 ]

Unfortunatelly, I don't think it is. I did the same thing. When I asked him, he informed me that agiftcorp uses his name, so that's why Danny uses Tiki Diablo now for his website etc. I think he said Hulahula did the same thing we did, I'm sure there are others too.

i asked the same question. he does have mugs on the diablo site, which i intend to buy

That's funny. The rear of the tiki mug had a rear, which I thought was unique to our Chikitiki, aka TikiDiablo.

It appears that agiftcorp not only has appropriated Chikitiki's name, but his technique as well.

Too Bad.

Suns-a-Bitchez :P

[ Edited by: DawnTiki on 2004-01-21 22:23 ]

Same here. Every roadside souvenir shop had Chikitiki mugs with "Florida" on them.

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Mrs. B:

I have no reason to doubt your description of Agiftcorp., having purchased its products.

Nothing personal, but as you apparently have more knowledge about Agiftcorp than me, who has none, could you check and see how Agiftcorp appears to have appropriated both the style and name of Chikitiki?

It would be appropriate to clarify my apparent misconception that Agiftcorp has missappropriated Chikitiki's ideas.

This is not my "description."
If you are curious, ask Danny. It's not uncommon in business to "tap" the same name...it's a long story, that, Danny, by the way, speaks freely about, and ventured into the "Chikitiki" side with no wrong doing or bad intent.
Not really sure what you are after here. If you feel the need to investigate, than do so.
Aloha

On 2004-01-21 21:06, Mrs. B wrote:

Not really sure what you are after here. If you feel the need to investigate, than do so.
Aloha

Your response raised the enormous issue and was the proverbial elephant in the living room that agiftcorp had, in fact, missappropriated Danny's style and name because the "description" (which was yours -you posted it - and a fine description, no need to disavow it now) was an unrestrained recommendation of Agiftcorp. However, you failed to address the obvious issue of the simiilarity of Danny's and Agiftcorp's name and style.

Moreover, by boldly promoting agiftcorp, and soliciting tiki fans to acquire its brochures, you allowed the inference that you were profiting by Agiftcorp ripping off Danny.

What I am after - nothing except to express my disappointment that a very capable tiki carver's good reputation, name and style appeared to have been appropriated (which was obvious by looking at my prior posts), although I agree with you, no one can monopolize a phrase like "Freaky Tiki" or even "Chiki Tiki."

[ Edited by: christiki295 on 2004-01-22 20:18 ]

I'm sorry, you are high and have no idea what you are talking about. Can we now end the ping pong game? It's at the ridiculous point.
Aloha!

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