WARNING: Copyright Thieves Active on Ebay

Tuesday's email was enlivened by a note from a friend about an eBay seller (apparently a Chinese company) selling copies of Peter Ashe, Danji and Leigh needlepoint canvases.  This is the seller in question in the link below.  The designs that I saw yesterday that were clear knockoffs are gone.  I imagine eBay is pretty proactive when they get complaints about copyright violation and the pieces in question are quickly pulled.
http://stores.ebay.com/18thcenturytapestriesdotcom

This isn't the first time I've seen cheap knockoffs of painted designs and it won't be the last.  If you look the seller up, they have mostly positive feedback.  But if I'd been quick enough to post this and you could have looked at the enlarged versions of the canvases in question, you would have seen how crudely they were painted.  The bottom line is, buyer beware.  Study the photographs and the descriptions very carefully and if you are at all uneasy for any reason, don't bid no matter how great the deal seems.

After all, I think copying of charts is partly responsible for the demise of Teresa Wentzler's cross stitch company which closed this week.
http://www.twdesignworks.com/xs.html

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