Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by jstanley on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:11PM
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Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the update, I'm glad to hear your site is legit!
I can confirm the payment is now credited in my account, although it wasn't at the time I wrote the post.
Can you please remove the text you copied from my site?
EDIT: I've added an update at the top of the article.
Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by BoiledCabbage on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:02PM
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To be clear, you had a problem and didn't get a response from customer service within 3hrs so concluded the entire website was a scam?
To me that sounds even more reckless than anything that site did.
Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by franciscop on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:30PM
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Would love to hear a timeline as well, AFAIK in these kind of situations they are normally included. It's not as bad if someone doesn't reply in 24h as if someone doesn't reply in 1 month.
Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by jstanley on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:32PM
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It was only about 3 hours, I just wrote up the post as soon as I was done with other work today.
Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by franciscop on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:38PM
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"asking for the copied text to be removed, although I haven't received a reply and no longer expect to" => so you mean you lost all hope for an answer to your email within 3 hours? (;
Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by jstanley on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:40PM
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Well after my payment didn't show up, I put 2 and 2 together and concluded (clearly incorrectly) that the site didn't actually work. :)
Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by anonbtcms on Friday June 16, 2017 @03:13PM
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The timing of all of this is rather unfortunate, because I am currently on a boat on vacation with limited wifi. I have updated the copy of the website and will continue to make changes to it in the near future.
Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by brazzledazzle on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:31PM
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Well to be fair, it doesn't actually work. He did say he does it manually.
Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by brazzledazzle on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:30PM
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You don't even need a working app or an original idea anymore to create an MVP. Just (literally) copy a competitor and do everything manually on the backend. When you make enough money you can pay someone to build it.
Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by SippinLean on Friday June 16, 2017 @04:04PM
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Cool, why did you rip off OP's creation?
Re:Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
by anonbtcms on Friday June 16, 2017 @04:10PM
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I found inspiration in his project, but he is definitely not the first to market for this idea[0].
This is not a scam website. I am using Coinbase to process transactions and their platform has had a host of technical difficulties for non-usa based customers. I have been manually updating payments for the last several weeks, such that there maybe a few hours delay between when transactions have been confirmed and when they are tracked on the website.
I noticed your payments several hours ago and I had already credited your account.
While my FAQ does say no refunds, I have always provided refunds when asked. You did not contact me about the payments not being correctly stored.
-Kevin