Pat G

This is the second time I won a pattern on Ebay only to find it's pages torn out of a magazine. Even the templates were cut from a page. None of it is even copies. Just torn out pages. I'm having a real prob. with this & wonder if it is legal or bothers anybody else. Or am I just missing something?
I did email the grp. at Better Homes & Gardens that puts out this magazine. I'm curious to see if I even hear back.

tlrnhi

I don't think it's legal for a person to do that.
I'm curious too to see what they say

Pat G

I'll let you know if I hear from anybody

Lacelady

If this happened to me, I'd feel cheated. On the other hand, I have about 10 years worth of quilt mags, perhaps I should start tearing them apart!

SharonAnne

I don't think you can sell something like that, but giving it is probably OK. Legal or not, I feel it is unethical and I would also feel cheated.

Judy_M

Yes it also bothered me. I have won patterns and they were pages torn out of magazines. Please post updates if you hear from Better Homes & Gardens.

Pat G

I'm not feeling cheated as such but it just smacks of something wrong. If I can get an explanation from the source that it's ok, then I'll be happy to let it go.

I'm just reading in another thread about "carping" & being negative. (I remember the msg they're referring to & felt bad about it at the time) I sure hope my comment doesn't sound like that since I'm just trying to find out if this is legal. If not, I will sure question a seller in the future as to her/his source of patterns.

I have so much faith in this grp. that I knew we would all rise above any negativity.

Aunt Retta

I have gotten crochet patterns like that. Most of them were from very old magazines. I think that may not be against the law. I am not sure.

I often sell on e-bay. If it wasn't against the law I might take my crocheting and quilting magazines apart and keep what I like and sell the rest. But I feel like it is/should be agaist the law so I wouldn't do it.

Pat G

I, too, have lots of quilting, crochet, & counted cross stitch bks. & yarn to get rid of but I'd rather just GIVE them away to somebody in this grp. I've already taken lots to thrift stores but in the future, I'll offer them up free here.

Candace

If they're the original patterns from the mags. it's legal, but if they're copies of the patterns that would be against copywrite law. But, I don't understand why someone wouldn't just sell the whole magazine, rather than tear it up.