Just Nailed A ****Weasel Selling My Stuff On Fiverr

Nice one Mike,

I caught someone selling one of my products on there. The cheeky get was also directing people to my download link.

However rather than contact fiverr, I changed the download link so his customers will get nothing and he'll get a whole lot of grief

I was wondering about the compliance over at Fiverr.

Congrats Big Mike!

Just out of curiosity - what further repercussions or consequences will the scoundrel selling your stuff be faced with?

To be fair, they took the offer for my products down immediately, pending the followup on the legal stuff (it was pretty standard).

Once that was resolved I sent in another request on behalf of the other product owners stating, "To go on record that you've been advised of copyright infringement....blah, blah, blah."

Interestingly enough, they then took down all the gigs this guy had.

I will be talking with PayPal on Monday (I've got an account manager to deal with this) as the seller is actually Fiverr (feedback@fiverr.com). I purchased a copy of it to confirm that they were our products, cracked etc., before reporting him.

The other open issue is dealing with the buyers, who, from the first comment left, seemed to understand it was an illegal offer and purchased it anyways.

Fiverr smart to get rid of sellers like that. It`s in the long term interest of their business to maintain quality. What buyer is going to be happy with some out-of-date half-working cracked software?

I hate those little scammers. Not because they`re immoral, but because they`re losers. One guy was SELLING my free report on a different forum. It`s like 10 pages, what he couldn`t write his own? Loser! :rolleyes:

Only if they were raised in that way; i.e. if they didn't get a solid foundation of basic values in the family.

I understand you don't condone it - but I think it's an issue of "nurture" not of "nature".

Hi James,

It is not about survival. They are thieves ... pure and simple.

Stealing is a habit and a sport to them. A hard to break habit. It is in their blood to steal since their juvie days.

ive have always had problems with people getting my software cracked and passing it around or reselling. real irritating some times. for you guys who cant lock your stuff, it must be a real night mare. On the flip side
my partner and i joke around, we say things like, its not how many copies we
sell that determines if the software was a success, but rather how fast it hits the black market....

edit--
i forgot to say we used to waste a lot of time nuking these guys, but we never could keep
up, and its always a losing battle, so we just gave up. much less tress this way

I made the mistake of calling someone a former marine once.

Once a marine, always a marine!!

Damn, each time I sell a book on kindle I'll be paranoid as **** now lol.

(Books that I actually took a while writing)

Which ones were not so responsive?

Why don't you tell the whole truth? The reason below is why we cut you off from support - no one said anyone about updates.

What's sad is rather than simply click the unsubscribe links at the bottom of the email, you chose to try and start a war.

Prosecutors could paint this as a virtual acknowledgement that you're willing to commit the state-level crime of receiving stolen property and converting it to your own use, also known in the BlueFart alleys of intellectual-property theft as "wink-nod." The word "crack" can be used to show you understand the criminal parlance and the legal implications of buying cracked software. The world "sometimes" can be used to show understanding, calculation, planning and intent.

Assuming your lawyer is clueless and puts you on the witness stand in your own defense, the prosecutor may ask you questions such as these. It will be a moment of gripping drama with plenty of well-practiced theatrics.

"So, Mr. GearMonkey, you acknowledge that you buy cracked software sometimes?" the prosecutor may snicker as the jury watches you squirm on the stand. "How much cracked software have you bought? And why do you buy cracked software only part of the time?"

Any reasonably skilled prosecutor will find a way to use your words against you even if you don't take the stand -- and then stand back and watch you screw yourself into the floor of the courthouse. The jury will observe your body language as you twist and turn and squirm for cover behind your lawyer.

Apparently unwilling to stop at a state-level crime, gearmonkey appears to have no reservations about announcing a willingness to dial it up to the point where it could morph into a federal crime. This sort of vitriol can be used to show a criminal lack of restraint and an attitude of "Do what I want -- or else." It easily can be used to paint a picture of an extortion or blackmail bid.

Patrick

P.S. When folks display a lack of personal restraint to this degree, it could morph into cyberstalking and an organized smear campaign across multiple platforms. Such things have happened on social-media sites. In the context of IM, such incidents raise the costs of doing business online and force companies to devote resources to putting out fires they didn't start. There is no justification for it in any context. In short, the customer is not always right -- and it's not rare in IM for vendors to be subjected to extortion bids, subtle or "in your face."

I have to agree with Mike. Just click the unsubscribe button at the bottom if you don't like their sales emails. That is not a spam email.

Support however is another story. I am not sure what their support policy is but I am sure they would not leave their paying customers without any form of support.

Dude, you're just digging a hole for yourself. You're the one harassing my support staff, you're the one refusing to unsubscribe and making threats.

And you're calling us unprofessional?

Take it outside the forum...

Did you read the links at the bottom? Specifically, the option to change to their product updates and info only?

I repeat: Did you in fact send the threatening email Mike pasted into this thread?

If so, your posts here on this topic are demonstrably false accusations made with the intent of harming a seller on inaccurate bases. Want to guess how long the ban is for that when we have this kind of proof?


Paul

Then maybe you should read our Privacy Policy, which was written by a lawyer:

An important part of our services includes being able to provide information to you. As a result, you expressly consent to receiving communications from us via email, fax, telephone, mail, or any other delivery method.

As a customer you are agreeing to receive information about the product or service you purchased. This may include, but is not limited to, information about product or service updates, new features, or information we believe you may find interesting.

We may also send you information about other products and services our company offers.

We may allow advertising to our customers, or engage in joint ventures, which result in your receiving advertisements from selected third parties.

And then maybe you should take a few minutes and learn the definition of spam.

You shot yourself in the foot with support - not our fault...

So in the last email you just sent us:

Then send me a ****ing refund. I paid for support, not spam from you c**suckers.

We should be polite while you call us names? No one at Incansoft wants any communication with you because of your abusive language towards them .

How would you expect to get support when you're biting the hand of the guys who you may someday need help from?

I too use email marketing, but I don't spam people daily, or send email to them when they requested to be taken off the list.

The un-subscribe button is at the bottom, but I didn't see it. I emailed support personally and asked them to remove me, not once, not twice, but several times.

Isn't a simple email to support suffice to be removed from their spam list?

I'm not bashing anyone. I'm am disappointed right now because I feel like sending multiple requests to their support to remove me from their spam list would be suffice.

Big Mike says I accepted their spam mail when I signed up, but I did ask them to stop spamming me several times.

Why can't they make a separate email for their "sales" promos from their support email. I purchased this software in good faith. I gave them my money. Now they refuse to give support even though I requested they remove me from their mailing list.