I'm an avid Ebay person and I just dropped him an "ask seller a question" asking him if he was aware that two of his images - the deer and the Brooklyn Bridge were exact copies of photographs on DPChallenge.com. I did that before reading the entire thread. I hope that doesn't mess anything up, but I love to make people like that squirm. It's so blatant. GOD that ticks me off!!!
Since he's using E-bay to sell his work, would it be possible to get them involved to pull him from their site... Hit him in his wallet. If you could prove that he is stealing work you could theoretically shut down all of his internet sales. I would recommend taking the high road and not start a smear campaign, but then again it wasn't my work that was stolen.
Alex, order one to see if it is real then nail the bugger with a law suite I'm sure you will win EASY!
You should of had some communication with the guy with regards to actually buying one of them, if he pulls it down now then you will have no actual proof he is selling your work.. get some screen shots of it for sale on ebay just to have some ammo dude..
To be honest I really aint bothered abou the money as much as the principle. I want to get people like this punished. Thats why I would like to rubbish his name instead. Matthew - what are the implications?
He was actually very cool and we had a great chat about things. He said he was asked to do a commision from an unknown source (maybe someone from DPC, u know who u are) he painted it, and sold it for $500.
he agreeed to pay 50% which is fine by me (it is mainly the priciple for me) and maybe we will work on more paintings togther in the future.
Anyway I am quite happy that we sorted things out
He even is going to send the liomited edition copy of the painting to me.
He was actually very cool and we had a great chat about things. He said he was asked to do a commision from an unknown source (maybe someone from DPC, u know who u are) he painted it, and sold it for $500.
he agreeed to pay 50% which is fine by me (it is mainly the priciple for me) and maybe we will work on more paintings togther in the future.
Anyway I am quite happy that we sorted things out
He even is going to send the liomited edition copy of the painting to me.
He was actually very cool and we had a great chat about things. He said he was asked to do a commision from an unknown source (maybe someone from DPC, u know who u are) he painted it, and sold it for $500.
he agreeed to pay 50% which is fine by me (it is mainly the priciple for me) and maybe we will work on more paintings togther in the future.
Anyway I am quite happy that we sorted things out
He even is going to send the liomited edition copy of the painting to me.
he agreeed to pay 50% which is fine by me (it is mainly the priciple for me) and maybe we will work on more paintings togther in the future.
Is he paying 50% of all sales on the photo? Or the $500 commission. Anyway glad to see you got something worked out that made you feel better. Cheers.
joe
Gotta love a happy ending. And besides, you made a new friend of sorts. I hope that the connection benefits both of you in the future too. Personally, I like the image better than the painting. : )
