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Originally Posted by photon
Well obviously if you buy art you don't like just to support students.. but in this case it isn't "art", it's reproductions of art. The feeling scammed part isn't from buying art to help someone, or overpaying for art, it's someone buying them from China for $3 and sells them for $150, when claiming that it's to support poor students.
Very true, art is only worth what the buyer and seller agree it's worth. But like I said this is a different situation because of the deception that is (likely) going on.
I agree as well, but that has nothing to do with this situation.
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Yeah, don't get me wrong here, I think it was a scam and you totally did the right thing in cancelling the transaction. I was just kinda giving a general rant on my feelings of the whole industry, being a part owner of a small illustration gallery. From a production end, this is entirely different from the actual work of artists. But at the consumer end, a person can relate to a fradulent work in the same way they would relate to an authentic piece, as long as they don't know the truth. The little bit of information you found out on the internet would have completely changed your relationship with the piece of artwork in a negative way, had you decided to keep it.