Thanks to everyone who was so supportive of my little joke. I never realized how many people would see those auction "adjustments" & agree with what I did. Maybe you're all just like me & are tired of this kind of crap.

CLICK HERE to see the hoopla......or the POOP-la I guess I should say.
Give the page a few seconds to load. If this auction looks "normal" to you, you may have to hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and refresh the page. This seller was stealing my bandwidth by hotlinking several backgrounds from this site to her auctions. A little search on her past auctions showed me that she's been doing it for at least a month, that's as far back as ebay's search would let me look.

I decided that between the people who don't bother to link-back, giving me credit for my backgrounds, and the ones who suck up the bandwidth I pay for, I had had enough. I even had one woman sell MY graphics along with a template she made - unbelievable!
I searched the web for a ***special picture & made an even more special background tile - the one you see in her auction & at the bottom of this page.
I thought it looked pretty cool. She did not.

I actually DID intend to change it that same night but fell asleep watching ER....I just wanted to leave it up for a few hours to make an example & a point. When I awoke, she had already ended & restarted her auctions using someone else's triple background maker.....and LOOKIE!! She did it right, no more hotlinking! Gee, what a fast learner. She also added this delightful blurb to the top of her auctions....

No Matter what one might think but accidents do happen. I am just sorry that "WaterLilly" Graphics could not allow for human error

Human error, my ass...she sure got that new one figured out fast enough. I emailed her & told her to remove my site name from her auctions & that she had a helluva nerve making ME out to be the bad guy after she had been stealing from me for over a month - that I KNOW of. She replaced my site name with "Certain People" in 3 of 4 of her auctions, one having a bid already making it not revisable.

This is funny....I'm still laughing about this. Her reply to an "ask the seller a question" inquiry......

I am so sorry about the turds being on my background. I am having a problem with my hosting site and hope to have the problem fixed soon."

and another.....

Excuse me, however, I did not steel them. I did not realize the button was not on the bottom of my auctions. Accidents do happen, I am sure even you have accidents. But rest assure I will never use the persons website again and let everyone else know about her

Oh GAWD NO!! Think of all the money I'll lose when she stops using my FREE site...and yes, by all means, DO tell everyone how I don't sit by & let people steal from me. All the talk about bandwidth and she thinks it's about her not linking-back to give me credit for the backgrounds. I set her straight and instead of an apology this is what I get...a line at the top of her auction basically saying what a bitch I am - give me a break!

If you take a peek around the site, you'll notice that the text request below is ALL over the place. It would be very difficult to miss it! ...and if you didn't understand what that meant, wouldn't the normal thing to do be to ASK?

Please DO NOT link directly from this site. To save tiles to your own computer, right-click on the image and click "save as" to put the image into a selected folder on your own pc, then upload them to your own web/picture host for use.

.....and this is at the top of the triple background maker page.

***Remember to save the tiles to your own picture host & make the proper adjustments within the code to reflect the new url of the background tiles themselves - do not direct link from this site. Please don't forget the required link-back to Waterlily Graphics - you can find the code(s) on the terms page.

....and yet there are those who will STILL go ahead & do it.

If you don't know what bandwidth theft is (also called "hotlinking" but NOT to be confused with "linking-back") please click on the banner below & take a moment to learn. A little education, on any subject, is never a bad thing.

I have received several emails asking if I would allow others to use the poop tile for reasons similar to my own. I sure don't have any problem with that but honestly, I don't know if it's OK or not for ME to give you permission. I made the tile but the original poop pic was found on the web & is not my own (see below). It isn't being used for profit, but still, I'm not sure. I'll be making another soon with the help of one of my sisters "kids" lol (again, see below) and that one will certainly be available here for anyone to use.

Thanks again & I'm glad to have given you a laugh....I thought it was pretty funny myself, but then I've always been a little twisted that way

Peace, love & all that happy crap ~ Denise

 

Don't be a bandwidth bandit!

   

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Another Offender - 7/18/2005

   

***The picture I used to make the tile is not one of my own, it was the best one I found as you can REALLY tell what it is, lol.
I altered it and added the text but I don't know who holds the copyright to the original - I'm a stickler for copyright issues too. If you are that person and would like either credit for your magnificent turd here on this page or would prefer for me to remove it, please contact me from the menu page and I will do so immediately - I have two canine nephews, Niko & Stormy who I'm sure would oblige in helping me with a new pile ......er, I mean TILE, LOL.

~ Thank you, whoever you are!