what is up with this auction?!

[Watergazer]

Sorry guys, I was away for the weekend to come to terms with a lot of art-related stuff and some R and R, and come back to find this! This is definately not me but it certainly is my photograph of my painted wolf. This is not the person who bought the wolf originally either, just someone who ripped the picture and is hoping for some cash by some unsuspecting person, then not having any product to give. I intend to contact her even though the auction now is ended. I am also upset to hear that she “sold it once” already since I am vaguely familiar with the bidder who won that and hope they didn’t pay and figured out this scam. Definately keep an eye on this seller! She’s clearly thieving.

[Watergazer]

Oh, and on another note…I don’t really mind if someone uses my color scheme provided it was not a commission’d piece I did for somebody…and the grey wolf idea would be easy enough to re-use…but this is my exact wolf. No two painters, even copying a scheme using the same exact paints, could get them to look exact.

[Skigod377]

Watergazer wrote:

Sorry guys, I was away for the weekend to come to terms with a lot of art-related stuff and some R and R, and come back to find this! This is definately not me but it certainly is my photograph of my painted wolf. This is not the person who bought the wolf originally either, just someone who ripped the picture and is hoping for some cash by some unsuspecting person, then not having any product to give. I intend to contact her even though the auction now is ended. I am also upset to hear that she “sold it once” already since I am vaguely familiar with the bidder who won that and hope they didn’t pay and figured out this scam. Definately keep an eye on this seller! She’s clearly thieving.

The previous buyer left positive feedback… the lady did say she painted 3 like this. I think she is just copying your wolf over and over. 😕

[Watergazer]

I just sent her this comment:

“I am contacting you to let you know it’s clearly wrong to use someone else’s photo of a painted piece and say you painted it. This product was painted and photographed by me, then later sold to a buyer several months ago. You did not paint this, and you don’t have this product to sell. I know you removed the auction and I’m glad you did, but I and an entire forum of Windstone collectors will be watching. It’s in your best interest not to do this again.”

And, in case of confusion, this is my ebay name, which won’t change, WatergazerWolf. My auction listing page is here: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZwatergazerwolfQQhtZ-1 which I don’t think will change, and you can stick me in your favorite sellers in case anything like this happens again, so you can contact me, or leave me a note here on the Windstone forums. Thanks for being observant!

[Alyssa]

Watergazer wrote:

I just sent her this comment:

I am contacting you to let you know it’s clearly wrong to use someone else’s photo of a painted piece and say you painted it. This product was painted and photographed by me, then later sold to a buyer several months ago. You did not paint this, and you don’t have this product to sell. I know you removed the auction and I’m glad you did, but I and an entire forum of Windstone collectors will be watching. It’s in your best interest not to do this again.
Well maybe that will get her attention even more. And hopefully she doesn’t do it again.

[Maria]

I just think it’s strange that someone with her kind of positive feedback would do something that stupid. I hope no damage has been done to Water by selling bunches of copies of her wolf.

[Watergazer]

I wonder how good her paint jobs are…since she won
t use one of her own to take a photo of. Whoever buys from her will expect the quality seen in the photo. It is irksome, especially when she says it’s her paint job specifically.

[Watergazer]

I contacted the buyer of the former auction as well, just to let them know that that wolf in the photo was painted by me. I hope this doesn’t happen again to anybody.

[Maria]

If you get a response, Water, will you share it?

[Watergazer]

Sure will.

[Watergazer]

I also contacted the buyer of the first time this seller sold off the wolf, and just got a reply. She said she hadn’t gotten the wolf yet and when she does she’ll compare the two because she was under the impression that THAT was the wolf she was going to be getting. She was familiar with my work but not my name, and she jumped at the chance to own this one. I gave her my Windstone gallery link. We’ll see what happens if and when she gets said wolf.

[Maria]

I think that’s a big if. 😕

[Skigod377]

Watergazer wrote:

I also contacted the buyer of the first time this seller sold off the wolf, and just got a reply. She said she hadn’t gotten the wolf yet and when she does she’ll compare the two because she was under the impression that THAT was the wolf she was going to be getting. She was familiar with my work but not my name, and she jumped at the chance to own this one. I gave her my Windstone gallery link. We’ll see what happens if and when she gets said wolf.

She already left feedback and has not received the item?

[drag0nfeathers]

If she did that was bad judgement on her part. You never know what could happen even with a legit listing, but I wonder what will happen now that she left feedback with no wolf in her posession ?????

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[Watergazer]

I don’t see where feedback was left though. I checked but must be missing it. She said she would leave negative feedback on the auction if she did not get that exact same wolf.

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