1st-art-gallery Copyright Pirate Internet

I bought a painting of Picasso’s Guernica from 1^st-art-gallery.com about two months ago. The painting arrived from China, it was OK, nothing special but included quite a few mistakes in draughtmanship and coloring of tones. I took it to my regular framer who pulled a quizzical face when he saw it, saying that it looked like a cheap knock-off from China and he was shocked when I told him that I had paid more than $300 for it. He asked whether I had permission from the copyright owners to make a copy as he couldn’t frame it unless I did. He told me to contact the Artists’ Rights Society to check. So I took my Picasso painting back home unframed and firstly contacted David B, the customer service guy at 1^st-art-gallery.com, he told me not to worry about copyright as they had it covered. Unconvinced, I checked with the Artists’ Rights Society who told me that 1^st-art-gallery.com did NOT have any permission to reproduce Picasso paintings and that 1^st-art-gallery.com were, in fact, notorious copyright pirates based in ISRAEL, beyond US copyright laws. They added that I could get into a lot of trouble for importing counterfeit goods, up to a $2million fine and up to 20 years in prison – you can imagine my shock! I got back to David B at 1^st-art-gallery.com immediately and told him I wanted to return the counterfeit  Picasso painting, he told me I couldn’t as one week had passed and 1^st-art-gallery.com didn’t accept returns after one week. I told him that 1^st-art-gallery.com had deceived me and that I would expose their deception, at this point David B who was never  polite turned very nasty. He told me that he knew where I lived and that if I made any trouble for 1^st-art-gallery.com,  he threatened to have me ‘dealt with’. Well, my husband is a law enforcement officer so we are not easily scared off my some low-life Israeli gangster’s threats and that’s why I’m here today to tell you all- DON’T BUY FROM THE COPYRIGHT THIEVING CROOKS AT 1^st-art-gallery.com.