Current mood:

annoyed

Not Amused
I am not amused. Not at all. I woke up this morning to find an email from one of the heads of MediaWest. It was a rather curt email regarding the art show. The subject heading was MediaWest Art Show. Since I exhibit my photos there every year for the last several years, before I opened it I can be forgiven for presuming that the email was probably something in regards to next year's art show space or something else equally mundane.

But no. The email was to inform me that I had purchased a piece of artwork in the art auction and failed to pay for it. They now wanted me to pay for it plus shipping. The artist has already been paid. They told me the name of the artist and the title of the piece of art.

The problem is that a) I've never heard of the artist, b) the title of the piece of artwork was totally unfamiliar to me and c) the only piece of artwork I bid on in the entire art show was a large piece of stained glass that I didn't win. Also, generally, since I am an exhibiting artist, they do give you any artwork you've won when you're checking out your art but I can understand how something like that can get overlooked, too.

When I emailed back for more details I was told that it was a photograph of two people so presumably the title (which is two names) refers to the two people in the photograph. The two names are of two people that have nothing to do with Stargate fandom (my primary fandom).

So apparently someone wrote my name and my badge number down as a bonafide bid on some artist's artwork in the art show. Whoever you are, if you are out there, this is not funny. You have not "screwed" me over. I am not obligated to pay for this because I did not buy it. You have committed a fraud. You have screwed over the *convention*, who are obligated to pay the *artist*. And if you are the same people who did the same thing to *me* last year by bidding on my artwork and then never paying for it -- I was paid by the convention and never even knew it had happened until this year when the convention auctioned off the unclaimed art for the Fan Fund.