We’ve Been Cloned Again
We have shown you an example of our website being cloned before, here is another that we just discovered:
I’ll take it as a compliment… I guess.
We have shown you an example of our website being cloned before, here is another that we just discovered:
I’ll take it as a compliment… I guess.
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5:30 pm
Does it really matter?
6:35 pm
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.
7:22 pm
Ouch. I don’t know what offends me more: the fact they’ve stolen your work, or how they’ve managed to butcher it.
8:41 pm
Mmm. Nothing says quality like leaving the anti-alias off.
8:55 pm
wow – I wasn’t expecting something so blatant
Can you send a cease and desist or something?
SB
12:44 am
How bad does it look?
9:01 am
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.
10:36 am
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.
11:02 am
It would have been really funny if he forgot to remove the Our Team section of the site and you guys showed up there.
9:52 am
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
6:53 pm
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)
7:17 am
I have sent them a mail letting them know how $h!t they are. LOSERS!
9:28 am
hmmmm I wonder if they’ll respond…
11:09 pm
Took a look today and the copycat site is down for maint! Looks like it’s been taken care of.