[Kevin Canning]

well I was just surfing around and came across Perluna's website and found this page:
http://www.perlunapearls.com/why-buy-from-us.html

2 out of 3 of those pictures were taken with my camera and the one on the right is actually my hand!! On their "why buy from us" page no less.

Needless to say, I would not suggest dealing with a company that makes theft part of their company policy.

[AdamLasVegas]

just curious, did you call them? Not surprised its China based. Nothing you can do but give us the heads up. Not going to buy from them ever.

[Caitlin]

I think someone from here bought from them........

[Sueki]

I think (underline "think") these are not the same people as the Pearllunar who I have bought from.
The people I have bought from on ebay spell their name slightly differently and are located in Suzhou. Which (again I think) is not the same location ?
Gosh, I hope so......

[knotty panda]

Sueki: These are NOT the same places.

Kevin is talking about

PERLUNA

I don't mean to shout, but you know me and spelling the name right so no one -- least of all me -- gets confused.

[Sueki]

Phew !
Cheers, Knotty.
Now I can sleep easy.
Was worried that I may have praised a shyster in other posts.

[jshepherd]

I do not see the pictures. Did they drop from the site that quiickly after Kevin's post? That is some serious monitoring.

Is this Web site the same as that Shecy site? They have very similar styles.

[Caitlin]

Ha!

I looked earlier, so I KNOW they took it down. Too bad I didn't capture the page, but google has a service that does that. Once it goes up, even if it comes down again, google has it arcchived, should Kevin want to get heavy.

[GemGeek]

Okay, that was creepy!

[Caitlin]

Today has been, by far, the weirdest day yet on the Pearl Forum. I hope tomorrow, it will be back to harmonious business as usual.

[john675]

I don't want to rock the boat any, but if you need the page containing the pictures, I have a JPG from the cache...

John

[nlerner]

Well done, john675 and thank you from all of us.

[Raisondetre]

Wow, seriously dodgy. Glad it's not pearllunar on ebay. Would've been very upset if I inadvertently supported a dubious business. And yeah, thanks a bunch for the pics. By the time I looked it was already down.

[Ingykiz]

I went to the site and the pics were down. Thanks John for the shots. The internet is a wonderful thing but unfortunately people abuse it. I was a lurker when Z was around. I found her posts quite informative. It is a shame that behind an obvious bevy of information there was deception. I enjoy reading this forum and I have learned alot. I would never buy anything now without checking it out with pearl-guide members first. Thanks to everyone who exert much effort to keep the integrity of this forum intact.

[knotty panda]

Originally Posted by Raisondetre

Wow, seriously dodgy. Glad it's not pearllunar on ebay. Would've been very upset if I inadvertently supported a dubious business. And yeah, thanks a bunch for the pics. By the time I looked it was already down.

I love that word Dodgy! I'm going to incorporate it into my vocabularly. What does it mean anyway? Hmmmm.

Re: dubious business. You can take what someone has to say about their experiences with a business and filter it in to your own experience. I don't believe anyone should ever take someone else's opinion to form their own. If I absolutely loved a vendor everyone else hated, I would have no problem whatsoever recommending them. My opinion is as valuable as everyone else's.

Don't pictures have to be copyrighted before unauthorized use can be considered stealing? I think that's why Pearllunar (here we go with the names again!) has their logo ghosted over the product picture. E-law is a quickly evolving field. I agree, using someone else's pictures is a questionable practice, but I'm not up on my copyright law so I don't know if it's considered stealing or not.
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I did some more thinking. Isn't it interesting that their site is copyrighted? I wonder what that covers. Does that cover pictures and text? I need to go back and inspect that copyright again to see if it's a US copyright. Are there copyright laws in China? It's really an interesting scenario, lots of different ways it could play out. None of which are worth the time and money to pursue.