Please help stop counterfeiting of Queenie's Pocket Full of Posiez!

[xiane]

Stop the Fake Posiez. Artist is being ripped off.
Please forward this. This needs to stop now!!

Stop the counterfeiting of the Pozies:
Fake items of  Pocket full of Pozies are turning up and they must be stopped.
Artist queeniex, creator of Pocket Full Of Posiez, is asking for your help.
Embroidered patches, purses and bags with embroidered patches of her characters are popping up. These are fakes and are not her items. She is getting ripped off. She does not make embroidered patches or bags with the patches on them.

If you see these items please report them to fakepozie@batsday.net & queenie@pocketfullofposiez.com.

Please to be sure to include any info about the store where you saw these fake items. Name of store, address and phone #.

You can see what the items look like on the banner below.

Let stop the production of these fake items. Do not buy them.

Comments

[naraku.livejournal.com]

I love Posiez, so I'll be sure not to buy this fake stuff. How does counterfeit stuff get into stores to begin with? x_x

People suck D:

[xiane.livejournal.com]

This is actually something all artists should know about, so I'm glad you asked about it.

Someone has been paying close attention to someone else's art as it gets popular. It's often blamed as "cheap chinese knockoffs" but really it happens a lot all over. It's REALLY easy to make patches at home if you spend the money for a decent embroidery machine. I recently bought a tank with an image embroidered on it that looks awesome, and was done at home. Imagine how tempting it is for some jackass to make a bunch of those - or sweatshop 'em - and pass them around to distributors and small boutiques. :/

http://www.youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/ - this is a great place to see copying in action, from HUGE corporations to small businesses. Urban Outfitters is WELL known for doing this shit. [if you have seen this before I apologise but hey, it's good for other people to see, too! *grin*]

I used to work in a little boutique and we would sometimes see catalogs for shit like that. It really makes me angry.

[naraku.livejournal.com]

I had no idea this type of thing happens so often O_o I've been copied & ripped off myself, but never like that.

Thanks for that site, I hadn't been there before. I spent about an hour going back through entries and came to one conclusion - lots of people are lazy and unethical D: Bleh!

[seeliespright.livejournal.com]

They suck and must be stopped!

I wish I could do something about it, but I don't imagine them popping up here in Scotland (and I don't like the gothy shops here because they're wankers).