Anybody know how to catch a thief - in the Bahamas?
I'm sure some other marketers have gone through a similar situation,
so I hope somebody here can point me in the right direction.
I discovered on Saturday that some bozo is selling one of my products
from his own website without my permission. (I've never sold resell
rights to it.) He's using my sales page with a few modifications, and
the salesletter even has my name on it, not his.
I sent him a cease and desist email, and CC'd it to his webhost as
well.
I threatened further action if he didn't pull my product from his
website immediately, including informing PayPal that he is selling a
product illegally and accepting the payments into his PayPal account.
It's now almost 48 hours since I sent the C & D email and my product
is still being sold from his site. (I also have reason to believe
that he is sending his customers to MY download page, thus stealing
my bandwidth, too.)
Unfortunately, this guy and his web hosting company are both in the
Bahamas. I will call PayPal about this in a little while but beyond that,
I don't know what to do.
Obviously his hosting company hasn't yet acted upon my complaint. It
would have been easy for them to shut him down - my C & D contained
both his website url and mine, so they had proof right in front of
them that what I was saying is true. (But for all I know, he might
own the hosting company. I can't find any whois information on them.)
If anybody has any ideas or suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them.
Thanks in advance.
Denise
PS my PM system is broken. Sorry I can't help anymore.