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Many of our ArtId members have gotten the same email from stanley.jackson326@gmail.com , Sheila Wedegis wrote about this in her blog November 2, http://artid.com/members/swedegis/blog/post/4824-scam-going-around. Shame on these people for scamming artists, of all people. All our members at one time or another get a bogus email from some scam person wanting to "buy" their work for a new residence or some such thing. These emails are always littered with bad spelling and grammar. Who is bogus and who is real?… Continue reading… 16 comments

Email Contacts - What's Real? Occasionally on ArtId, we get a person or company that contacts a number of our members through the contact page in their ArtId galleries offering artists anything from representation to licensing deals. Sometimes these offers are legitimate and, unfortunately, sometimes they are not. Because your contact page is open for anyone to use, these emails cannot be dealt with as spam. An email received through your ArtId contact does not mean that we have endorsed the company or person. So, we'd like to give you some tips on how to discriminate between truly interested business people and those whose real goal is to get you to pay them a lot of money for nothing. How to Compare… Continue reading… 9 comments