w.y.s.i…WTF?

For anyone who read my previous post on getting one my sites ripped off,  this is not a follow-up, but if you read that post you’ll understand that I don’t expect to have any resolution to that individual issue for the very reasons that made it so frustrating.

However, another site has done the same thing and even worse. And these guys are open-season.

But what’s really interesting is how we found these site-ripping bastards:

We work closely with a specialized 3rd party ecommerce service provider that provides a hosted service, where mulitple clients have “stores” all on their servers. So this service provider was contacted by a client with an odd situation. Apparently they billed and sent a gift card to a customer who had not ordered from their site but from another site in another state.

How on earth could that have happened? (ahh, come on you know how)

The other business ripped off the site we built for our customer and did not change one of the links that led to our customers hosted store. So when their customer followed the “bad” link they hadn’t changed, it sent their customer to our customer’s site and since they looked identical, their customer had no idea they were buying from another company entirely.

Quite amusing, actually, especially for my co-workers who were really hoping that I would call the offending company (they really enjoy it when I rip into people for some reason).

But alas, while it was our work that was ripped off, it is work that we were paid for so it is our client’s property and their fight. They have been informed. They are not happy. And they are the ones with the lawyers on staff.

At least no bureaucratic nonsense should prevent this one from getting interesting.

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