| Child Style Magazine |
| Lies, theft, name calling, misrepresentation |
| 28th of Oct, 2011 by handmadeink |
I was stolen/lied to and name called from and by Child style magazine, Gemma Booker, AKA Gemma Touchstone. She promised to feature tote on my etsy page, it was her choice, she contacted me, not the other way arond.. She said it would be featured in their back to school/Halloween edition if I donated it. I happily donated a handbag, and also included a bowtie and hair bow. I have that correspondence from her saved on etsy. I do not need the help with advertising, I am small time, not a big magazine editor. I craft for fun and for the love of it. Not for the money.
There was no feature, until i contacted her on the 25th of October when all of this began. She finally featured me fifteen minutes after i wrote her that night. There is proof of this. Around the same time I Found their scam FRAUD case! I was shocked. I began to do some research and found other victims (people who Gemma promised things, but did not deliver) on her Facebook page which she quickly deleted when i posted on her facebook business page. So I wrote her and asked for my donations back, I was angry and out of anger I ended email with How sad are you? Get a job, thief.
Yes i did.
To which she replied with :
(Copied from etsy email)
"If you have issue please try to call us rather than freak out like a crazy person. do to a blog post. my idea of a good time is not collecting hand made junk!
We simply look for something different to share with readers.
you e-mail id rude, and far from worthy of a response GROW UP and actually say something so I can understand what you are referrin to
please contact the authorities so we can get someone capable of communicating involved."
I responded with:
(Copied from etsy email)
"Oh really? I found the fraud report on you. I also see that other have had you steal from them. I did not send you junk I worked hard on the item you requested.
As far as my behavior, how would you react if you found out you were stolen from?
If my stuff is junk, send it back.
I want my Halloween bag back, my hair bow back and my bowtie back.
Is this understandable enough for you."
Within 5 minutes her etsy was shut down. Does this seem like the action of an honest person? I asked her a dozen times why, during our argument on my facebook wall to which she had no answer.
(I saved all correspondence with her, for proof to authorities)
She is a name calling bitter woman. My business is now being slandered by her all over the internet.. simply because i accused her of being unethical. She did nothing to make things better. When I informed her of the scam report she warned of finding my name on there one day, which I did today, thanks to her. Before all of this, there was nothing negative on me. Now she has me slandered all over the internet. Why would she call me all those names, I thought she was a business woman, is this how she does business when someone accuses of something? She says I am a thief, I am ignorant, ugly and a lier and many other ugly things, um, okay. She even claims she works harder than me? Wow. Why did she go there? If she did not do anything, and I wrongfully accused her, then help convince me! I would apologize if I was wrong! Prove things to me!!!! Do not call me names! I did nothing wrong here. Except trust an unknown magazine editor.
All she had to do is link me to the feature she promised. She has called me all kinds of ugly names in her scam report! What the heck>?
She needs help. And now it looks so do I, my small Hand Made Ink craft business is probably ruined thanks to her bad words. However I think her words show her as bad guy, rather than me. Why crush and slander me over a 12.50 bag? Think about this.
She wrote the reviews right after the argument. She has no proof, of her accusations. Ask her for some. WHy would I go to these lengths, if I am the bad guy? |
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| I was supposed to be featured in the same issue. I still have all of our correspondence as well and though she never got so nasty with me she was soooooo disorganized, all of her emails were misspelled as the one you posted, and she stole, lied repeatedly, and wasted so much of my time and money. In the last email that I sent her, I asked her for a simple explanation or an apology. I would have been 10 times less angry if she had just said, "sorry, you know what, I'm a flake and the magazine is not going to come out afterall" but she just ignored me after all the multiple bios and photos she asked for. She took my free sample and ran with it. She's such a scammer, SO UNPROFESSIONAL. I gave her 24 hours to respond with SOMETHING after the whole incident before I started responding to other etsy sellers asking if I'd ever received the same scammy email asking for free stuff for the magazine. One seller was even asked for a pair of $165 EARRINGS which, if you look at any issue of Child Style Magazine, it's clearly geared toward parenting/children. Gemma is clearly just going after stuff that she wants with no intention of fulfilling her promises. She must be pretty stupid not to think this is going to come bite her in the butt. That's what I told her and I'm SO GLAD that other sellers are speaking out! Stay strong handmadeink, you've got the handmade community behind you and we are strong when we come together! |
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| Same thing has happened to me... I highly suggest contacting Etsy about her. I have. However, the more people that do it, the better. I was scammed out of my product too, and I know others have as well. If we don't do something about, she will just continue to get away with it and scam others. |
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Thanks so much for your support. I agree with you all. The more people she scammed speaks out, the more people know what a scam artist she is.
I already contacted Etsy.. They are aware of her and say they are doing everything in their power to keep her off of Etsy.
I am sad that there are so many others she scammed, how can she stay in business treating people like this? :(
I am glad I made my scam report.. but sad she retaliated and made one on me. Hope I am able to remove her rather vulgar review on me.
Wish me luck. |
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http://www.ripoffreport.com/business-consulting/tony-plowden-and-gem/tony-plowden-and-gemma-touchst-48c3d.htm
Gemma Touchstone and Tony Plowden are professional Bamboozler in there trade.
During a passed business project in 2004/2005 Gemma Touchstone and Tony Plowden were invited guess to work on a business plan to help launch a new baby product that had been in RD for 8 years. Soon after a private investor meeting where Gemma and Tony were in attendance all contact was lost with Gemma and Tony. Attempts where made by phone and emails to bring about what was going on. Finally, communication was made only to be told by Gemma to "stop harassing her or action will have to be taken. And I do not know what you are talking about. This is my baby product I invented it."
Gemma and Tony wrongfully acquired the baby product without my consent. Gemma and Tony interfered with my patent pending, stole my patterns, started manufacturing and distributing baby product by themselves. She is so pro in her field at plagiarism copying and pasting over orginal documnets, that she was able to sell my baby product to Matthews Williams owner of Bliss Linens. She was fired for stealing the baby product from the Bliss Linens warehouse. Currently, Bliss Linens is selling my product well informed it was stolen from me by Gemma Touchstone. thenestingpod.com. Gemma is bold-face lier, theft and bamboozler. Gemma Touchstone will take private ideals and actively pursues as a goal for herself. She has no Ethics.
Gemma wrote a book about me and my husband. If my husband and myself are all she claims, why would she do bussiness. Gemma talks in third person. |
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