Polish (CON) artists

MrSinn · 06-04-2006 11:30PM #1

Is it just where i live or has anybody here been asked to buy drawings from so called polish students ?
They do the house to house thing,they hand you a handwritten note telling you that they cant speak english,that they are students,and they are selling their goods to pay for college
Are these people for real?

drdre · 06-04-2006 11:33PM

MrSinn wrote:

Is it just where i live or has anybody here been asked to buy drawings from so called polish students ?
They do the house to house thing,they hand you a handwritten note telling you that they cant speak english,that they are students,and they are selling their goods to pay for college
Are these people for real?

i donot know about polish but there were people around cabinteely afew weeks ago, but these guys said they were spanish.also i heard of these spanish people around enniskerry.
i donot know whats going on?:rolleyes:

dimerocks · 06-04-2006 11:34PM

Yeah, my dad bought one. Its actually good but its not signed or anything. Still was only a fiver.

MrSinn · 06-04-2006 11:36PM

dimerocks wrote:

Yeah, my dad bought one. Its actually good but its not signed or anything. Still was only a fiver.

a fiver for a print out,did she kiss him before she rode him?

okidoki987 · 06-04-2006 11:39PM

A fiver :eek: they came round to my gaff and were looking for 20

pclancy · 06-04-2006 11:43PM

I answered the door to one about two hours ago and she had perfect english. The picture was crap though and she was looking for €20 so no thanks.

God she was gorgeous tho.

MrSinn · 06-04-2006 11:46PM

pclancy wrote:

I answered the door to one about two hours ago and she had perfect english. The picture was crap though and she was looking for €20 so no thanks.

God she was gorgeous tho.

Same county as me,maybe the same bird,its hard to say no to a sexy bird but i did it

jimmycrackcorm · 06-04-2006 11:50PM

How is this a con?

someone calls round to you selling a painting - if you like ityou buy it. Perhaps the con is that they do it with those magic pens that makes the colours disappear after a week..

StupidLikeAFox · 06-04-2006 11:52PM

Yeah got these before, came to the door, asked would we like to buy a picture, i said no, ok thanks anyway, end of story

blu_sonic · 06-04-2006 11:58PM

They are piss poor, they have a neck like a jockeies arse by trying to flog them but more power to them, if they can get a few bob together out of it, i might start doing it myself, though not a lot of call for renderings of product design

Rb · 06-04-2006 11:59PM

Get these occasionally, have never bought anything off them and don't intend to but I'd hardly call it a con.

Silverfish · 07-04-2006 12:12AM

Had a Polish guy call to the door to try and sell me some drawings he apparently did - we spent 20 minutes discussing how he could have drawn them better, and then another 20 minutes discussing Ireland vs Poland where he assured me Ireland was definitely warmer, then I gave him 5 euro to go away before my flatmates brought him in for tea and he ended up living there.

No offence to him, I just didn't want to inflict my flatmates on other nationalities, its not fair.

I like the Polish, they're great.

And its better than them just coming up to me and scabbing money off me for nothing.

Caryatnid · 07-04-2006 12:27AM

A Spanish friend of mine used to sell someone elses paintings here. It was all 'ligit' - although come to think of it I'm not 100% sure if he was on the books or not.
Last Saturday a Polish guy called round to the gaff. It was about 12pm so I was still in bed. He rang the doorbell, then banged on the door straight away, and then rang the doorbell repetively (no pauses in between). I thought someone was gonna tell me my car was burnt out. When I answered the door, he said "HELLO!". I said "hi". Him; "From POLand." I'm just there looking at this cvnt. He had this attitude on him that made me want to smash his face in but that thought didn't get to me till he went as my brain was left still in bed.
Then he said "Selling Paintings!" He had a plastic bag under his arm. I was sure he was deliberately being an ignorant fvck and that that he would actually be able to say a sentence if he wanted to. I told him we had no money in the house, and he cursed at me in Polish, smiled in a nasty way, and went off. I was left there pretty pissed off. If someone wants to come to my door uninvited they should be decent to you. He's turned me off the next Polish person who comes to the door selling paintings.

elvis2002 · 07-04-2006 12:35AM

I opened the door a few days ago and too my suprise I see this gift from god had come... the hottest babe I ever saw... I was in shock. Anyways she was a polish girl selling paintings. I said I didn't like any of the ones she had but to come back next time because I might buy one... i.e. no, but just to have a look at her again. Ohh, I should have turned the charm on...:(

Snake Plisken · 07-04-2006 01:11AM

Better then the Arsehole from Talk Talk who called at my door last week, looking to save me money on my phone bill! I said I wasn't interested, he said your not interested in saving money, I said I'm not interested in switching provider and I use my mobile mostly, he then starts getting cheeky and comes back with a smart arse answer "your either loaded or Mad", that is when I slammed the door in his face

Its bad enough having these feckers telephoning me every week without them turning up at my door!

Snake

tallaghtdave · 07-04-2006 01:12AM

pclancy wrote:

I answered the door to one about two hours ago and she had perfect english. The picture was crap though and she was looking for €20 so no thanks.

God she was gorgeous tho.

HEHEHE\did u not offer to teach her english

unkel · 07-04-2006 01:22AM

tallaghtdave wrote:

HEHEHE\did u not offer to teach her english

Forget about English. I'd teach her French, Greek and Russian. In that order.

CoolGuy2006 · 07-04-2006 08:45AM

jimmycrackcorm wrote:

How is this a con?

someone calls round to you selling a painting - if you like ityou buy it. Perhaps the con is that they do it with those magic pens that makes the colours disappear after a week..

Simple. A lad called over to my gaff the week before christmas. I like drawing myself and was actually in the middle of drawing a picture for my girlfriend as a christamas present. The doorbell rang so i went to see who it was. It was a horrible wet cold windy night. There was some polish guy with a bag of drwaings. He told me he he was an artist from polan and he has drawn these pitures. He goes through all of them even pointing out one of two children saying they were his cousins back home and blah blah blah blah this was a picture of his cat. Me being an artist myself and it being such a cold horrible night i decided i would buy one.

After paying 10euro and heading back inside were i could inspect the drawing a bit better. It turns out it was a crappy print on some piece of card. I couldnt see it properly while at my front door. So it wasnt the original matserpiece this clown said it was.

A girl came knocking the next month, i wasnt at home. Anyway, it was some polish girl, another artist, selling the same pictures with the same story :-)

Archeron · 07-04-2006 08:56AM

I got an eastern european dude, (dont know from where exactly) selling oil paintings at the door. Have to say, the work was brilliant. He didnt paint them, but was selling them for friends who are trying to save for a gallery. As it happened, I was looking for a painting at the time, so I bought one of his oil paintings (definitely an original) for €120. Flipping excellent painint, better than anything I'd seen in the shops or galleries here. He's happy, and I'm happy.
Its all good.

Hobbes · 07-04-2006 09:08AM

jimmycrackcorm wrote:

How is this a con?

A friend of mine got a job about 15 years ago to do this. You were basically given printed artists shots of Dublin (poorly printed) and they sold them door to door. They had to go on about how they were hand drawn, blah blah... The truth was they were taken from the government library shots (some book) which was pretty illegal to begin with as I recall. They also basically charged you a silly amount of cash for a piece of cardboard and print on paper.

I assume the con is along this lines.

Sgt. Politeness · 07-04-2006 09:16AM

Silverfish wrote:

And its better than them just coming up to me and scabbing money off me for nothing.

Aye, at least theyre selling something. Not like its begging or stealing, and unless the picture self destructs after 5 minutes, i fail to see how this is a con.

connundrum · 07-04-2006 09:27AM

Its not a con, they provide the goods and you provide the money - simple transaction. If the picture suddenly started fading 5 minutes after you've bought it due to the invisible ink used to draw it - then it would be a con

They are obviously not drawn by said Polish people, everyone knows that Polish people can't draw, and everyone knows that Polish people are/were never students to begin with :rolleyes:

I came across the same situation in the States where people were questioning Lap Dancers who were simply minding their own business and trying to put themselves through Harvard... cut them some slack*

*May or may not be coated in sarcasm.

CoolGuy2006 · 07-04-2006 09:27AM

you fail to see how its a con?

eh, they are lying to you. They tell you they drew this picutre themselves. That is why you buy it, you think you are buying a orginal that someone has put some time and effort into. You are led to believe that you are buying this piture off the "Artist". You are not getting what you paid for

They are deceiving you, it is a con

This only appllies to the people seeling prints by the way. i have no problem with people calling door to door selling stuff in a honest manner

elvis2002 · 07-04-2006 12:26PM

if someone told you in that they were selling Original Levi's for 20 Euro's and you buy them and then figure out they are fake. Its a Con. Same thing here.

jsr · 07-04-2006 12:48PM

If someone offered you an "Original" painting/print for a fiver and you believed 'em you deserve to be conned!
Anyway if you like the pic/print whats the harm?

07-04-2006 12:51PM

`Whats the big deal? I've had Irish people doing the same for paintings, and even digital printouts. I haven't bought any so far, but if its good and a reasonable price I might buy one.

Hardly a Con. if you don't want it, don't buy it. If you're expecting a masterpiece, don't expect to be offered one for 10 euro.

CoolGuy2006 · 07-04-2006 01:03PM

Ok, firstly it wasnt a painting i bought, it was a pencil sketch (print)

Secondly, how can you say it isnt a con. He lied to me. Yes i liked the picture and yes i wanted to buy it because he told me he drew it. I did not want to buy a print and only realised it was a print when i took it inside into proper light.

How can you say this isnt a con, He lied to me plain and simple. He had a whole story that went along with it.

If he had called to my door and asked me did i want to buy a print i would be ok with that.

He sold me something claiming it was something else

I did want a original sketch, i didnt want a stupid print. I was buying the work and talent, not a copy on a bit of card

netwhizkid · 07-04-2006 01:15PM

One of these fellas came to my house about a year ago with a piece of paper saying "From Poland, No money would you like to buy my painting €20" I told him go next door to my neighbour who proceeded to send him back to me again :eek: I had some loose change in my pocket which was around €4 And I gave it to him and told him to be on his merry way! Didn't get no painting though. I'd like to have a hot Polish babe come round...I'm sure the old netwhizkid charm and the fact that I'm minted could secure more than a painting

Jamey · 07-04-2006 01:21PM

Someone told me that thw whole 'No Money to pay for College' is a load BS because Polish students now get EU Grants to study abroad? Could anyone confirm this?

07-04-2006 01:22PM

CoolGuy2006 wrote:

Ok, firstly it wasnt a painting i bought, it was a pencil sketch (print)

Secondly, how can you say it isnt a con. He lied to me. Yes i liked the picture and yes i wanted to buy it because he told me he drew it. I did not want to buy a print and only realised it was a print when i took it inside into proper light.

How can you say this isnt a con, He lied to me plain and simple. He had a whole story that went along with it.

If he had called to my door and asked me did i want to buy a print i would be ok with that.

He sold me something claiming it was something else

I did want a original sketch, i didnt want a stupid print. I was buying the work and talent, not a copy on a bit of card

What did you do.... He offered the sale, you pushed money into his outstretched hands, and grabbed the drawing, without looking at it?

I'm sorry but its your mistake. You failed to examine the picture/sketch/print whatever.

I still can't see a con here, because you could have checked the sketch before you bought it, determining what format it was in. You assumed that it would be an original sketch.

In my eyes at least it wasn't a con. Just lack of oberservation by yourself. :rolleyes:

rob1891 · 07-04-2006 01:25PM

Archeron wrote:

I got an eastern european dude, (dont know from where exactly) selling oil paintings at the door. Have to say, the work was brilliant. He didnt paint them, but was selling them for friends who are trying to save for a gallery. As it happened, I was looking for a painting at the time, so I bought one of his oil paintings (definitely an original) for €120. Flipping excellent painint, better than anything I'd seen in the shops or galleries here. He's happy, and I'm happy.
Its all good.

My ma got one of these also. The guy was an Israeli, selling his own and other peoples work. All oil on canvas, some quite nice. Friggin frame cost more than the painting in the end. She's happy with it so who cares if it was a con!

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