Pretty shiny beautiful jewelry.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Whooo! Thanks guys!

I am looking into a countersuit and something called abuse of process. I also have a friend who is halfway through law school who has offered to do research for us!

[the last yatto]

http://www.twitter.com/anglassworkers/status/20590767961538560

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[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://mobile.twitter.com/anglassworkers/status/20590767961538560

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Isn't that another way of saying "spambot"?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://mobile.twitter.com/anglassworkers/status/20590767961538560

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Isn't that another way of saying "spambot"?

Naw, it's RSS feeding the contents of the AGLF shop to Twitter. Hopefully this will be a good thing!

[Triple Zero]

http://mobile.twitter.com/anglassworkers/status/20590767961538560

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Isn't that another way of saying "spambot"?

Not on Twitter. It's only considered spamming when you actively approach people with messages. This is more something in between a (micro) blog and creating an RSS feed.

It's also not the same message over and over again (right, Yatto?)

[Fujikoma]

I read somewhere that it's more expensive to defend against a lawsuit than it is to sue someone, some asset protection book... It really depends whether the lawyer charges an hourly fee or gets his money from the settlement. When defending against a lawsuit, most lawyers will not accept anything but an hourly fee, and that can be a very high price. Or at least, that's what the book said.

I'm sorry to hear that, Nigel, it's abuse of the system and it happens. Is she willing to settle out of court?

EDIT: BTW, if I had money, I'd buy some and send them as late Christmas presents to my relatives, those are awesome looking.

[Dysnomia]

I'll facepimp you Nigel!  I'll also take pictures of the bracelets I made with the beads I bought from you, and the necklace you made me a while ago, aaaaand the purty pink earings you send me when I bought the beads.   

[the last yatto]

000 it only posts new items from their etsy store
Even then will only post three in a row before waiting

[the last yatto]

cabbage, your forgetting lawyers who do it for the cause...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_phelps#Disbarment

[Fujikoma]

I know there are those, but I've been given the impression that the practice is not so common. Still, that would be ideal. Somebody needs to shut that bitch down. What is she suing over? Personal injury? Copyright infringement?...

I remember in Kentucky or Tennessee or some such place there was a guy who went and glued himself to a toilet seat, then sued the store for pain and humiliation, saying the store put superglue on the seat... Maybe it really did happen, I can't say for sure, but the second time he found himself glued to a toilet seat in a store there wasn't a lot of pity for him.

I found an article about the same kind of thing happening in Denver, but there seem to be so many of these instances that I can't find the one I'm looking for... Lesson? Always use one of those toilet bibs.

http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/5280174/detail.html

EDIT: Aside from promoting the rights of African Americans, there doesn't seem to be much good about that lawyer. If he believes that salvation is predetermined, then why does he go about making such a fuss about those "sinners"? Really, he seems like a real scumbag. I'm not seeing anything about anyone working for free in there, but that's probably because I'm tired.

EDIT EDIT: Also, I apologize if I misstated the circumstances surrounding the sticky toilet seats, I think I mostly heard about that situation by word of mouth, which is quite possibly flawed.

[the last yatto]

Was trying to say the road to hell is paved with asshats like that.
My guess is she's suing cause she thinks she owns a set bead design as if it was tax related a simple showing of paperwork would have solve it, and that's assuming small claims even hears cases of tax fraud

Then again I never really cared about the details since not really my business and talking about it just gives the crazy lady transcripts

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's a long story, but the bare bones is that about two years ago, someone noticed a lady selling someone else's beads on Etsy under her own name, claiming she made them. In the art world, this is a huge no-no; it's misrepresentation and fraud. The woman was making her living buying beads in sets from other lampworkers, then breaking up the sets and selling them individually at a large profit. Normally, I would have said bravo, well done! at being able to resell something at an inflated price, but the fraud part kind of put a damper on my enthusiasm, and naturally the people whose beads she was selling under her own name were furious, and proceeded to report her Etsy store for misrepresentation. Her account was closed. She decided to retaliate by starting a blog where she publicly accused people of tax fraud, and also called around to people local tax offices to "report" them for tax evasion.

Oddly, there is not really any legal recourse against this kind of harassment. It's not a crime. Eventually, though, tax offices in various regions just started ignoring her as a crackpot. My reaction to this, even though she hadn't done anything to me specifically, was to set up a nearly identical blog that cleared the names of the people she was accusing. This was my first and only involvement with the situation.

Time went by. A bunch of people decided to sue her for libel, but they ran out of money shortly after she admitted to the court that she was the owner of the libelous blog. Too bad, because the very next thing she did was sue 30 artisans, chosen apparently at random, for tortious interference because of the complaints to Etsy getting her account closed. I did not complain to Etsy, but I guess she assumes I did because... I don't know why. Because I have a recognizable name, or something. I think there are also cupcake makers and soapmakers, because she used to sell cupcakes on Etsy and I guess thinks that someone called the health department on her, and since she was operating out of an unlicensed kitchen they shut her down. That's what I heard; honestly, if she was up to the same shenanigans in the bakery world as she was in the lampwork world, I wouldn't be surprised if someone did call the health department on her.

More info, for the morbidly curious, here:

http://artisantruthreport.blogspot.com/2009/07/simple-purpose-of-this-blog-is-solely.html
http://coloraddictionblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/artisans-vs-ullja-kuntze.html
http://www.skyisland.com/blog/2010/june/update_civil_case_against_ullja_kuntze
http://fresno-lampworkers.com/ullja-kuntze.php

[Suu]

I'm going to be getting a Pandora bead from you soon, Nigel.



....As soon as I have some money. But really, I am!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm going to be getting a Pandora bead from you soon, Nigel.



....As soon as I have some money. But really, I am!

Awesome!

I keep meaning to make some more, and then forgetting to do it. So, really, the longer you wait, the more likely I am to make more awesome ones.

[Fujikoma]

OMG, Nigel, that's awful. Can you use some of the people she has wronged before as witnesses? This woman must have made a lot of money to afford to be so vengeful. Wait, I just realized, I'm stupid and should stop asking questions about something that might come up in court, because if the woman REALLY has no life...

Good luck, I probably wouldn't settle out of court on that one, then again, I wouldn't take legal advice from someone like me, so, there ya go.