Theft! - Dirty theiving bas....

Stuarty · Post: # 14545Post **Stuarty** Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:05 pm

Guess what ive came across this and this. The pages are basically total rips, not even any effort went in to change the text, images or even titles. Sad little people. Why cant people do their own work instead of copying others who put a good effort into theirs.

Just noticed that they didnt even delete the part about the nameless eejit who layed full slabs then smashed up the patio with a sldge. Poor effort. All i searched for was BS7533:Part4 and clicked on 'repeat the search with the omitted results included.' when google only found 1 page.

TarmacLady · Post: # 14546Post **TarmacLady** Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:31 pm

hopefully when Tony's feeling up to snuff, he'll be able to sic a solicitor at them -- at least a 'cease and desist'.

andpartington · Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:08 pm

its unbelievable what some people will do just a shame they have changed there ftp password or we could of had some real fun

andy

BPC · Post: # 14663Post **BPC** Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:14 pm

Hi

I was just browsing the other wet cast manufacturers listed on this site, I clicked on one of the manufacturers which took me to their website and was amazed to see a picture of a patio identical to one we had installed!

I had personally taken the photograph of the patio after we had completed the work, so copyright belongs to me...but the photograph is displayed on their website! I have emailed them saying that I have seen my picture on their website.

The cheek of some!

Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:21 pm

what on "www.pavingexpert.com" or some other site???
regards LLL

BPC · Post: # 14671Post **BPC** Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:27 pm

Sorry maybe I wasn't clear enough. The Paving Expert did not have a photograph of my patio. It was one of the Companies who like mine have links from the Paving Expert.

I know that Tony is not responsible for the content of other webistes and in no way am I having a go at the Paving Expert. In fact I have to thank the site for my listing as a few local customers have found me from Tony's listings.

It was a fluke that I clicked and as they had a product I also sell I clicked on it out of interest and saw my patio! On checking the site further I found another patio picture, again it could only have been taken from my website!

Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:20 pm

sadly this goes on all the time in cyber space,i have a tenant and her job for 2 years was ripping off other peoples stuff about european destinations and building travel guides for car hire companies(no names mentioned)
i love it when you see the pikeys in sparkling vans with pictures of 150m2 driveways printed on ,when theres not a cat in hells chance they did that job
why do ppl still employ them,its a bit like buying timeshare for some reason people still do it????
regards LLL ???

Stuarty · Post: # 14680Post **Stuarty** Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:03 pm

Was in my local keyline last week, looking through some of the business cards and leaflets that were there to take, on 5 out of the 7 i took, they all had bits of pictures from the bradstone catalogue lol. How many contractors have a picture of well suited man greeting his family on the monoblock drive they have just laid ?

BPC · Post: # 14681Post **BPC** Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:10 pm

I'm proud to say that I have no pictures of humans on my website or leaflets!

All of mine have been taken with my trusty digital camera or from what customers have sent in themselves when they have completed a project from our products.

This is why I don't understand why they have used mine instead of others from brochures widely available. They hadn't left out Bradstone, and used their photographs too. But I guess Bradstone will not mind as the offending company also they sell their stock.

Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:13 pm

i like the one of the skinny bint doing yoga at sunrise on her faux yorkstone circle (stonemarket or marshalls) and some other super model putting shopping in the boot of her porsh-a, all lip gloss and cleavage. i can barely find a realistic depiction of any paving in a catalogue,its always 10k of birds and plants etc over it and about 2 m2 showing
cheers
LLL

biggywee · Post: # 14738Post **biggywee** Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:04 pm

I worked in a printers for years and often had 'tradesmen' in asking for flyers, business cards etc. using photos from other peoples leaflets or corp. brochures. Unfortunately we also had the traveling type who would get flyers made up and you just knew they were gonna rip peole off (dodgy guarantees, fake addresses, mobile phone no. only - no landline). I ended up refusing to do these. The boss was'nt happy but it stops people getting crap work.