The etsy shop hasn't taken down from what I can see
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The etsy shop hasn't taken down from what I can see
I caught us a really big fish, I feel bad but I don't.
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NOW it's mermaid Malena's tail and Hannah's tail too! this woman is so stubborn!
Looks like that etsy user is stealing more then mermaid photos. I've seen those cosplay before as well
I managed to contact Hannah and Mike I hope this will end soon!
I don't think any of the pictures belong to her, she just photoshops the hell out of them.
After this comment I went to google a bit more and you are definitely right. Found this one, which is used in her etsy to sell the Harley Quinn costume: http://andyrae.storenvy.com/products...ource=FacebookQuote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Mystery
I thought I'd contact this Andy Rae to show her how her picture which she is selling herself is used in this other site.
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Originally Posted by Merenneito Nerissa
That is definitely a good idea!
Reading this I think we should Google every of her article but there are so many pictures!
I can't find the etsy. All I'm seeing is the instagram link and they don't have a link in their description
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I love how her attitude towards this is 'oh I'll just crop and change the hue of the photo and no one will notice!' She has to realise by now the mermaids are on to her and are on the attack and these waters are no longer safe to swim in. I feel like just saying to her 'well if you made tail 'like' these ones (which she claimed in messages to me yesterday) then you should have no problems using photos of your own god damn work instead of stealing photos!!!'
Take a picture in one, prove you have it.
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I love how people think that if its on the internet then it is free use for them. Uh, no. Only if there is an explicit creative commons license with it and even then you need to give credit where credit is due (especially because that is the right thing to do.) Bleh.
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Originally Posted by Mer-Crazy
This ^ is epic!
I thought we are all shark mermaids after reading it! 😈
I love your style Mer-Crazy!
Speaking of stolen photos
The princess company I once worked for was so shady! My boss used photos of an awesome elsa cosplayer on the site as if she was an actual girl working for him and wearing a costume the company owns. (She actually hand made her dress and lives in Canada.)When I asked him about it he claimed a seamstress from another state was making him that costume and she sent him the photo. So there's two different people using this girl's photo as if they owned it. I looked up the cosplayer on DA and her photographer to let them both know. I never told them I was making a mermaid tail either because I could see them tying to make it looked like I worked the mermaid for them by asking me to wear it to on of their events to help me get mermaid work but then make it look like I'm mermaiding was an option for their company or use my image without credit.
Harry Potter style yo hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Kassandra
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Originally Posted by Mer-Crazy
Awesome style!
Someone checked the listing on Etsy to see if it was already taken down?
Well, there's a new photo on that listing and price has come down like a lot, there also appears to be one very praising review for her, suddenly. I checked her sales like couple days ago and as far as I noticed there weren't that kind of a sale, seems very clearly that the seller has made a listing for someone to "buy" for giving her a praising review. I don't have any proofs of course but that's how it feels like for me, these are just my speculations.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/2629456...m-mermaid-tail
Oh, clicked again this listing as I wanted to post it here, price had changed from 250 usd to 300 usd in one minute. She is either scammer or just a young one who has read everything about tailmaking from the internet and decided to be a professional tail maker immediately. Dreaming is ok as far as it doesn't involve other people's money.
What an ugly tail. It looks like she just painted it over and left it to dry over the heater, so its all buckled and yukky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merenneito Nerissa
Well at least it seems that she's using her own pictures (that are faaaaaaaar distant from the ones she has stolen!) and for that price I doubt that someone would ever give a cent for a tail that clearly still needs some improvement
There still seems to be option for silicone one too (on the options for that same listing) which is 1000 usd. Option for silicone is under "select fabric".
She has a twitter account and facebook too, so who's tail is that one over there? https://twitter.com/Star_Sewn
Yeah that review seems really unlikely. And that it was up right after this whole debacle...
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Originally Posted by Merenneito Nerissa
That tail is from the pictures of one of the users of this community!
I remember she posted that picture after she got a potshot with the tail she made herself.
Now she's no longer active from almost three years now so I don't know how to contact her 😱
People like this infuriate me :mad:
It's like she is just cycling through all the tail makers.
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I believe it was so ilonka I wanna say was her name?
She has it posted up on deviant art.
I tweeted her acting innocent asking if she makes the tails and for how much. This will eventually evolve to me calling them out :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Kassandra
have you seen the photo of one of her tails though?
https://img0.etsystatic.com/118/1/11...31874_2gef.jpg
Lol I just read through all of this. Its like a pod of vigilanti mermaids...I don't really understand this....like at all? How has she not embarrassed enough to take it all down??
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Originally Posted by Mermaid Momo
You definitely should!
Yes I saw the pic of the tail she makes and as I said it's nothing like the tails she was claiming to make, definitely misleading people!
Thats Ilonka's tail (or use to be, I think she sold it), she's on instagram and facebook as amyfantasy nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Kassandra
This is how I went about it on Etsy too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Momo
Funny story I sent her my fabric tail 3 years ago to sequin. I bought the sequins and sent them to her too. It was my first Mermaid tail ever. If she bit off more than she can chew, fine. But I've messaged her many times over the years to get my tail back. It had sentimental value, it was my first tail. :( she hasn't replied to me in actual years but I see her post her adult photos on tumblr and her cosplay on fb and Instagram.Quote:
Originally Posted by Felicia
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I remember you sending her a tail, your old orange vinyl looking one right? Thats super messed up that she hasn't even had the decency to send it back to youQuote:
Originally Posted by AniaR
So do you believe that there's her behind all this?
I have no clueQuote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Kassandra
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I understand.
What a mess!
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Some poor soul bought from her :(
This was a tail she spent 1k on
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...e0&oe=5757D134
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...a3&oe=5798C167
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...55&oe=579413D2
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...01&oe=5759EB04
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...c1&oe=574B7213
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...11&oe=578EF09B
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...6b&oe=579009A7
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...51&oe=5754DD62
I can honestly say, that is the worst rip off I have ever seen. That person can file a report with etsy and hopefully get her shop removed
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Oh my gosh, the photos are so horrid I could cry, I can only image how the person who bought it feels. :( As Wesley said, I hope her shop gets removed soon.