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    Her reciprocal accusation is probably just a knee jerk reaction at being caught and shown up - cornered animal-style.

    If you've got to back tomorrow, do you have an old invoice for one of the pieces in question going back a while that you could take with you?

    With all of my orders, I print the invoice alongside photos of the item and any notes about sizes, mods etc. written on it (I take a screen grab and the photos and print them on one sheet) and staple that to the postal receipt, copy of the customs forms etc. That way I could show, with photos, anything I've sold with postal proof of when it went etc. If you had such a thing from 4 years ago it would show how long you'd been making the piece.

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    I don't really have anything like that but everyone who's been doing the shows as long as me knows that I've been doing those pieces for years. She used to have a gallery which another jeweller used to supply until one day she said she didn't want her jewellery any more. That jeweller then discovered that she was copying her work. She obviously doesn't have the imagination to do her own designs.

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    Wrestle her to the ground and kick her in the tits?
    Crikey! Is there an emoticon of a little smiley face spurting out and nearly choking on a cup of tea!

    I think that's topped anything I've ever come out with and has to go down as the best expression in forum history - we can even use it as a new acronym,
    'whttgakhitt!' - everyone say "aye"

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    Do you mean like this?



    LOL

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    How aweful for you Carole
    Let us know what the organiser says and how it all turns out in the end.
    What pieces is she copying?
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    She's copying my anticlastic bangles, bangles with charms, star pendant and earrings and several pieces with little flowers with gold centres.

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    Carole I can only sympathise. The very same happened to me 11 yrs ago and I vowed at that stage never to have a website again. I was 2 yrs into my college training and one day a fellow student came in asked me if was selling my pieces at a shop in a nearby town ....anyhow transpired that this "shop" owner had copied my designs from my website and then made and displayed them in his own shop...Talk about light the blue touch paper and run.. I was fuming...closed my old website down there and then, never had one until October this year when I had to bite the bullett because of my expansions. It makes me sick to think people need to stoop that damn low.

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    Quote Originally Posted by caroleallen View Post
    She's copying my anticlastic bangles, bangles with charms, star pendant and earrings and several pieces with little flowers with gold centres.
    So basically she's gone for the simple to copy things.... her talent isn't up to yours (positive point) and you're a constantly evolving artist with new tricks and designs up your sleeve.

    Mentally shake herout of your head, she's not worth the aggro or your time!
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    Do you have your designs registered at all?

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