We’ve Been Cloned Again

by Jeff Sarmiento | March 21/2007 | cost of goods sold

We have shown you an example of our website being cloned before, here is another that we just discovered:

http://www.greatvantage.com

I’ll take it as a compliment… I guess.

14 comments

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Mar 21/07
5:30 pm

Andy says:

Does it really matter?

Mar 21/07
6:35 pm

Leonard says:

Yes it does matter. How did you find this site? They almost stole your slogan too – “Painless eCommerce”. LOL! Anyway, yeah take it as a compliment. This site is very well designed and I’m not surprised that it was cloned but these clowns have taken it too far.

Mar 21/07
7:22 pm

Ben says:

Ouch. I don’t know what offends me more: the fact they’ve stolen your work, or how they’ve managed to butcher it.

Mar 21/07
8:41 pm

Joe Taylor Jr. says:

Mmm. Nothing says quality like leaving the anti-alias off.

Mar 21/07
8:55 pm

Scott says:

wow – I wasn’t expecting something so blatant

Can you send a cease and desist or something?

Mar 22/07
12:44 am

McWebs says:

How bad does it look?

Mar 22/07
9:01 am

Jeff Sarmiento says:

Thanks for the comments guys. All of us were pretty surprised when we saw it too.

Leonard: We found out because Michael noticed traffic coming from his URL in our stats. I guess he forgot to change some links when he copied our site over.

McWebs: I’ll leave that up to you guys.

Andy: I would think it does matter if you outright copy the website like that.

Mar 22/07
10:36 am

Leonard says:

lol. It’s funny that their visitors clicked on the links they forgot to change and ended up on a site that looks identical to greatvantage. Some of them might have thought that Freshbooks was a sister site since it shares the exact same design and almost identical slogan.

I noticed that they have a contact page. Maybe you should send them a note and let them know what your rates are in case they decide to go for something original.

Mar 22/07
11:02 am

Jamie says:

It would have been really funny if he forgot to remove the Our Team section of the site and you guys showed up there.

Mar 23/07
9:52 am

Scott Meade says:

I don’t know how you being in Canada works into it, but your offender is in US. Have you registered with US Copyright office? Just 30 or 40 US bucks I think and you have added protection and damages that just the threat of should scare these copycats off. I’m certainly not pro-litigation and you don’t want to get into that, but you could send a quick note over to the copycat if you have a registered copyright. My blog entry on it is here – http://synapsoftware.com/blogit/articles/2007/02/19/software-copyright

Mar 26/07
6:53 pm

James says:

How rude!! Do these folks have no self respect? For the shame of it all. How can they even look at themselves in a mirror in the morning? (I’m lazy and I steal other people’s hard work)

Mar 29/07
7:17 am

Ben says:

I have sent them a mail letting them know how $h!t they are. LOSERS!

Mar 29/07
9:28 am

Jeff Sarmiento says:

hmmmm I wonder if they’ll respond…

Apr 4/07
11:09 pm

Scott Meade says:

Took a look today and the copycat site is down for maint! Looks like it’s been taken care of.

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