Look What I Found…We Have Been Cloned…
I pointed this out on my blog last week, and people seemed to get a kick out of it.
Okay… so this is the current 2ndSite home page. It’ll be going when we roll out the new brand.
Now, check this out: http://gold4hits.net/
I guess we’re flattered 
has sent, it would stand taller than the 
12:36 am
“How come when people rip off sites the don't even do a good job. Missing background images, font size and family problems. bah.”
7:42 pm
“Uh, I hope you're going after these guys for copyright infringement – geez. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but the way they've ripped you off it's just stupidity.”
4:10 am
“your css has blue-on-blue entry for currently highlighted (not clicked on) link. this is just wrong…
seen in firefox on winxp, at least.
please fix!”
8:42 am
Dom: thanks for the note…no clue what they do…1% per day sounds pretty good though…!?!
Dmitry: we'll look into the ASAP. Thanks for the note.
12:20 am
“What on Earth do these guys do..? I actually signed up and I'm trying to unpeel the onion about these guys – totally whacked (they promise to invest my money in safe investments earning up to 1% per day..).
By the way, if you scroll to the bottom of their 'More Info' page:
http://www.gold4hits.net/more.php
all the bottom links point to Secondsite. Did they copy your html and forget to change the href links
-Cheers,
Dom”
2:48 pm
I guess you can take some solace in that the 'evil clone' site breaks badly under Safari. Don't feel I'm really missing out.
4:35 pm
[...] have shown you an example of our website being cloned before, here is another that we just [...]
12:42 am
If they’re basically just taking the whole site… how come they still suck?
I mean, did they have a look at FreshBooks and go “Hmm, I like this site. I want our site to be like this site. Like literally, this site.” It’s insane that people try to cut corners and not even make an effort to make it different. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
I suppose there are more cloners out there, I wonder if any will it get it even close to looking as good as you guys do.
9:30 am
this is plain stupied satin is coming to eat us and hes gonna be in a clone
11:59 am
Just so you all know, the back story on this is that I have been in touch with Lewis at Great Vantage. Apparently they have outsourced their design to a third party and he assured me that they would have things remedied in short order.