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That quote states that MAC will NOT send YOU 2 samples, because "you want to see if what you bought on Ebay was fake" (that buyer - red is not "that buyer" as she did not buy from me and I believe her post was after mine or at least I didn't see it until after I posted so I was talking about YOU - and I can't prove what came in that package, plus, you told Paypal that YOU GOT THE SAMPLES FROM MAC, NOT THAT YOU SAW SOMEONE ELSE'S PHOTO'S ON THIS FORUM)!
Secondly, in her post regarding the samples, she stated that she did just ask for them (not ordered at that time - at least this is what I remembered and I'm not going to go back and look right now). TALK ABOUT THINKING BEFORE YOU TALK AND BEFORE YOU ACCUSE AN HONEST PERSON OF SOMETHING - BOY OH BOY HOW EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEED THAT ADVICE!!! EXACTLY WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING!
I AM A VALUED MEMBER OF EBAY AND HAVE BEEN FOR YEARS! NOW, here is my post that I was typing before I even saw your new post. If I were to respond to every slanderous comment made about me in the last week or so, I'd be at this for A WEEK, so I am not going to do it!
In response to the last comment by red which includes my response to comments made by others:
What, the Cornflower isn't fake now??? First it was too blue according to some, then it was too violet, now it's.......okay? The box of Teal (in this pix) does not look like the one I sent or the one in the auction (and the FIRST I heard about these "fakes" was LONG after that auction ended so you can't say that I put the jar on the box for the picture, to hide the packaging - I just make sure that the bottom color label on the jar gets shown, as well as the one on the top of the box since this is all that was ever needed)!
The lighting in the auction photo is VERY BRIGHT, even though it's not apparent since it's a light box (and it absorbs the extra light) but it has a very large bright light directly over it, and one BRIGHT HALOGEN light on each side, so even with this much light, it still looks darker than the one shown in the pictures here. As I have told this buyer, I did find the receipts, after looking through about 150 of them!
The reason I am so upset, is the being ATTACKED by certain members of this forum who know nothing about me, the sale that took place, etc. It's not just one item in question either! Suddenly, it is being printed, that I have been selling fakes all along - and it's being stated in MANY DIFFERENT THREADS (I honestly believe that SOME of these are sellers themselves who don't like competition)! This is one complaint out of 17,000 FB over approx. 6 years (and half don't even leave FB so I've probably sold double this amount) - and these false statements ACTUALLY CAUSE OTHER FRAUDULENT COMPLAINTS BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME (or others I see slandered because people are TOO QUICK TO JUMP IN AND MAKE FALSE STATEMENTS WITHOUT ANY FACTS AT ALL) OR WHO HAVE EVER BOUGHT FROM ME!! They just get caught up in it.
I DO NOT believe I shipped that Teal pigment pictured HERE (and I don't see anything wrong with the Cornflower at all). Unless my MAC store is now accepting fake pigments as returns and reselling them (which I doubt) and if they have been accepting them for almost 1 year (I haven't bought any common colors in quite some time - only limited edition colors), then there is NO way it's fake (even though this isn't mine).
Again, I DID find some boxes that look like those now stated to be fake, from at least 3-6 years ago in my "empties" bag with the jars. So how do you explain that? I doubt fakes would be around that long, without being noticed. The comment I saw about having never seen a box like this from their pigments even several years ago, is very odd because how could you remember? I wouldn't know myself if I hadn't kept the empty jars in the boxes (most of those are from when I used to sell samples - hundreds every week - otherwise I sure wouldn't have my boxes after all this time and I wouldn't be able to remember what the boxes looked like)! Guess it's a good thing that I haven't recycled them yet or I might believe they were fake too.
Maybe some of the colors on the "list" are fake, but I just haven't personally found one yet, that I can say for SURE is. This is the biggest reason I haven't updated my guide (and NO time). Panda made the comment TOO, that she has emailed me many times about these fakes and I refuse to update the guide - so this meant that I WAS selling fakes and knew it?? I sure don't remember any emails about this EVER. I do get MANY EVERY DAY ABOUT THE BRUSHES or a few other items, and MAYBE there was one about pigments but if there was, it must not have been anything new AND I AM SURE I WOULD REMEMBER IF I HAD RECEIVED SEVERAL EMAILS ABOUT THEM!
Besides, I can't print information in my guide just because one person, tells me they "think" there are new fakes out there, UNLESS I KNOW IT'S TRUE and have personally proven it (or through MAC). That would be very irresponsible of me (just like it is to slander me in public forum, repeatedly without ANY facts). If I am sent more of the colors on the list, I'll check them, but the one's I've checked so far, have not been different and I DID APPLY THEM BOTH TO THE BACK OF MY HAND (Frost, Aire-de-blu, Copperclast, Blue). My Blue's, I have been saving (until maybe 1 month ago). They are A55 with NO code on the back of the box (dot matrix type), and the "fake" was the same - no code on the back of the box but all of the other "fakes" do have it). I found one box that the dot matrix was so faint, I almost didn't see it. I found another with the code on the bottom of the box instead of the back (ALL POSITIVELY AUTHENTIC). Actually, I just now tested them AGAIN and I honestly can not see any difference in the texture, color, SMELL (they all have that smell, even the ones from most recent collections). They all even wiped OFF the same! The Frost was not the older "fake" Frost either. Maybe those other "fake" colors will be different? I am also very surprised at some of the colors listed on the fake list, whether it's pigments or eye shadows (I just saw Daisychain listed and it just came out last month, so how many honest sellers will be accused of selling that fake)!
I WOULD NOT JEOPARDIZE MY REPUTATION (or my new business linked to my Ebay account), by selling fakes and wrote the guides a few years ago, TO HELP BUYERS NOT GET BURNED and I spend ALOT of time, every day looking at auctions or buyers' pictures of brushes, to HELP THEM! I will try to investigate further, WHEN I get time.
Oh, and Diorissima IS trying to get a refund (but my biggest issue is with the HUGE AMOUNT OF SLANDER, attacking (by those who know nothing about this particular case or others they comment on, and misinformation by the certain people). There are several threads with conflicting "advice" when people do ask: i.e. "those are authentic", then the next says, they are fake (and always said with MUCH venom, even when she's wrong).
God forbid that anyone makes an honest mistake, because it will mean they get smeared all over Specktra and those are the people dragging this forum down and giving it a bad name, instead of the good reputation it used to have! Several on here need to grow up because they are dragging Specktra down & ruining the good reputation they used to have (just like they are ruining the reputations of honest sellers that they know nothing about). Do unto others.........
Secondly, in her post regarding the samples, she stated that she did just ask for them (not ordered at that time - at least this is what I remembered and I'm not going to go back and look right now). TALK ABOUT THINKING BEFORE YOU TALK AND BEFORE YOU ACCUSE AN HONEST PERSON OF SOMETHING - BOY OH BOY HOW EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEED THAT ADVICE!!! EXACTLY WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING!
I AM A VALUED MEMBER OF EBAY AND HAVE BEEN FOR YEARS! NOW, here is my post that I was typing before I even saw your new post. If I were to respond to every slanderous comment made about me in the last week or so, I'd be at this for A WEEK, so I am not going to do it!
In response to the last comment by red which includes my response to comments made by others:
What, the Cornflower isn't fake now??? First it was too blue according to some, then it was too violet, now it's.......okay? The box of Teal (in this pix) does not look like the one I sent or the one in the auction (and the FIRST I heard about these "fakes" was LONG after that auction ended so you can't say that I put the jar on the box for the picture, to hide the packaging - I just make sure that the bottom color label on the jar gets shown, as well as the one on the top of the box since this is all that was ever needed)!
The lighting in the auction photo is VERY BRIGHT, even though it's not apparent since it's a light box (and it absorbs the extra light) but it has a very large bright light directly over it, and one BRIGHT HALOGEN light on each side, so even with this much light, it still looks darker than the one shown in the pictures here. As I have told this buyer, I did find the receipts, after looking through about 150 of them!
The reason I am so upset, is the being ATTACKED by certain members of this forum who know nothing about me, the sale that took place, etc. It's not just one item in question either! Suddenly, it is being printed, that I have been selling fakes all along - and it's being stated in MANY DIFFERENT THREADS (I honestly believe that SOME of these are sellers themselves who don't like competition)! This is one complaint out of 17,000 FB over approx. 6 years (and half don't even leave FB so I've probably sold double this amount) - and these false statements ACTUALLY CAUSE OTHER FRAUDULENT COMPLAINTS BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME (or others I see slandered because people are TOO QUICK TO JUMP IN AND MAKE FALSE STATEMENTS WITHOUT ANY FACTS AT ALL) OR WHO HAVE EVER BOUGHT FROM ME!! They just get caught up in it.
I DO NOT believe I shipped that Teal pigment pictured HERE (and I don't see anything wrong with the Cornflower at all). Unless my MAC store is now accepting fake pigments as returns and reselling them (which I doubt) and if they have been accepting them for almost 1 year (I haven't bought any common colors in quite some time - only limited edition colors), then there is NO way it's fake (even though this isn't mine).
Again, I DID find some boxes that look like those now stated to be fake, from at least 3-6 years ago in my "empties" bag with the jars. So how do you explain that? I doubt fakes would be around that long, without being noticed. The comment I saw about having never seen a box like this from their pigments even several years ago, is very odd because how could you remember? I wouldn't know myself if I hadn't kept the empty jars in the boxes (most of those are from when I used to sell samples - hundreds every week - otherwise I sure wouldn't have my boxes after all this time and I wouldn't be able to remember what the boxes looked like)! Guess it's a good thing that I haven't recycled them yet or I might believe they were fake too.
Maybe some of the colors on the "list" are fake, but I just haven't personally found one yet, that I can say for SURE is. This is the biggest reason I haven't updated my guide (and NO time). Panda made the comment TOO, that she has emailed me many times about these fakes and I refuse to update the guide - so this meant that I WAS selling fakes and knew it?? I sure don't remember any emails about this EVER. I do get MANY EVERY DAY ABOUT THE BRUSHES or a few other items, and MAYBE there was one about pigments but if there was, it must not have been anything new AND I AM SURE I WOULD REMEMBER IF I HAD RECEIVED SEVERAL EMAILS ABOUT THEM!
Besides, I can't print information in my guide just because one person, tells me they "think" there are new fakes out there, UNLESS I KNOW IT'S TRUE and have personally proven it (or through MAC). That would be very irresponsible of me (just like it is to slander me in public forum, repeatedly without ANY facts). If I am sent more of the colors on the list, I'll check them, but the one's I've checked so far, have not been different and I DID APPLY THEM BOTH TO THE BACK OF MY HAND (Frost, Aire-de-blu, Copperclast, Blue). My Blue's, I have been saving (until maybe 1 month ago). They are A55 with NO code on the back of the box (dot matrix type), and the "fake" was the same - no code on the back of the box but all of the other "fakes" do have it). I found one box that the dot matrix was so faint, I almost didn't see it. I found another with the code on the bottom of the box instead of the back (ALL POSITIVELY AUTHENTIC). Actually, I just now tested them AGAIN and I honestly can not see any difference in the texture, color, SMELL (they all have that smell, even the ones from most recent collections). They all even wiped OFF the same! The Frost was not the older "fake" Frost either. Maybe those other "fake" colors will be different? I am also very surprised at some of the colors listed on the fake list, whether it's pigments or eye shadows (I just saw Daisychain listed and it just came out last month, so how many honest sellers will be accused of selling that fake)!
I WOULD NOT JEOPARDIZE MY REPUTATION (or my new business linked to my Ebay account), by selling fakes and wrote the guides a few years ago, TO HELP BUYERS NOT GET BURNED and I spend ALOT of time, every day looking at auctions or buyers' pictures of brushes, to HELP THEM! I will try to investigate further, WHEN I get time.
Oh, and Diorissima IS trying to get a refund (but my biggest issue is with the HUGE AMOUNT OF SLANDER, attacking (by those who know nothing about this particular case or others they comment on, and misinformation by the certain people). There are several threads with conflicting "advice" when people do ask: i.e. "those are authentic", then the next says, they are fake (and always said with MUCH venom, even when she's wrong).
God forbid that anyone makes an honest mistake, because it will mean they get smeared all over Specktra and those are the people dragging this forum down and giving it a bad name, instead of the good reputation it used to have! Several on here need to grow up because they are dragging Specktra down & ruining the good reputation they used to have (just like they are ruining the reputations of honest sellers that they know nothing about). Do unto others.........
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