This morning in my email I found a PayPal payment for a link to the Supplier's section on this site from a website in Hong Kong. What a nice thing to get up in the morning and find money in your mailbox!
Here is the text they plan to place on AFI:
The text for your ad, 40-50 words
-- Title: fine art paintings of oil painting portrait and more
Description: Here you can find biography of 350 famous painters and many free techniques to paint, as well as art materials for sale.
· your url
---- http://www.oilpaintingfactory.com
What do you think my reply to them should be/or was?
Comments
I agree with Larry Berman, I would not have opened the email in the first place. I frequently receive email (spam) that appears to actually originate at PayPal, but in reality comes from unknown sources.
Oh wow, some of these comments got scarey. I'm glad some of you dug deeper than what I did into their website. So I'm reading that if you provide your signature they will sign you name on the paintings, and if you have gotten that far with the ordering process with them then they would have your address for delivery. Hmmm. That could open up a whole new can of worms for discussion. Forging signatures, provided addresses, this could go in a really bad direction later of idenity fraud. Just saying...
No, they know that people in America love to get things at such a bargain that they don't really care how it was made. I looked through their website. Who would want to buy a fake Mona Lisa. That just doesn't seem right. You can get a high quality 16 X 20 Mona Lisa for $55. What a deal. I wonder what the medium quality looks like. Would that be one painted by a 14 year old? I recognize many of the paintings from Art Museum visits. How can they legally copy those?
Have you noticed in the photo downloaded by Deborah that the "paintings" being created by rows of artists are actually finished prints? They all have a white border, and none are in process. As Barry said, they don't even try very hard to fake it.
Connie, I'm glad that you refused them. Some living artists someday may find their work was copied and sell as original (copied & painted by hand), bearing the idea that: if a customer can't afford a piece of Mona Lisa, order from them, just as real. Where then is the respect for the artists and their copyright?
So that's where all those paintings come from for those "starving artists" sales at the hotels!
Interesting discussion, and I love this phrase from Deborah: "mis-representation of their individual oil painters as artists, if the artist actually painted them and not a machine". (focus on the word machine) Does that mean if they do it, they're wrong/evil/deceitful, but if we do it, it's okay? http://karencooperpaintings.com/blog/45916/overheard-at-an-art-fair...
They are pretty persistant.
I glanced through their website. All they sell as "raw materials" is frames and stretcher bars period. Not really enough to be considered what we call a supplier. They do have oodles and oodles of finished paintings, drawings etc. that can be ordered.
Here's a photo of their factory production line.
I also got the feeling that Seattle may just be a warehouse setting.
The scary part is these people don't get it. This makes me want to quit or throw up. Did anyone bother to look through this web site?
It really was PayPal. It was sitting right there in my account this morning.
You're right, Barry. This is another place where a person could pick up some great stuff to sell at an art festival near you.
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