Thievery - updated
At this site, right on the home page, there is a published “review” with images and text stolen directly from The Opinionated Parent and claimed for their own. (Look for Speckles & Weeds about 3/4 of the way down.)
See the same thing here?
It’s bad enough that they can’t write their own blurb about a company who’s items they carry in their shop, but they even stole the images that link directly to my site, indicating they also know nothing about the internet or that I’d know immediately when they stole it. Granted, the title image does link to my review, but there’s no other indication that I wrote it, nor did they have my permission to print it.
I highly recommend never shopping there. Sad, because it’s a small Canadian company and those are the ones I love to recommend. Not this time.
I emailed the owner this morning:
On your website you have copyrighted images and text taken directly from our site without permission. Please remove all of them immediately.
The Opinionated Parent
I’ll be watching to see if they remove it all.
Update: 36 hours later - no response and it’s still there.
Update: 1 week later - it’s gone but I didn’t ever receive a response with an apology or any explanation.
March 21st, 2008 at 11:25 am
Wow, that’s just WRONG!!!
March 21st, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Wow, that’s sad. How cheap of them!
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March 21st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Doesn’t that just piss you off? It does me!!!!
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March 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 am
Ok umm you need to let the owner know that if it is not removed immediately that you will be contacting a lawyer. That is so WRONG!
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March 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Aw, that’s too bad. Someone once linked to a copyrighted image I had on a site I used to run. When I found out, I replaced that image with a smiley face. So then when you went to their site, instead of seeing my image, you saw a smiley face. (And a very bad one at that — I hastily drew it in Photoshop.) It was too funny! I printed out the page and saved it and laughed over it for *days*!
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March 22nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Lol - I love damselfly’s idea! I have a great picture of a dog taking a dumpif you want to replace the picture with that…
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