A Thief Stole My Product and Site And Is Selling Them As His Own

I try to think people are a decent bunch. But many times I am wrong.

I don't usually sell Wordpress themes I create on the internet. They are usually created for my clients to be used exclusively for their own sites. But I created some simple sales page themes for myself and a client who needed one. Then I had another client who asked for one and I gave him the one I created. Whoever I let use the themes loved them. And I found that they really worked well for me on my cpa sites. I was getting pretty good rankings.

So, I decided to create a site and sell them for what I thought was a good price so whoever wanted them could afford them. I sold them rather then gave them away because I wanted to make a little money and I had no links of my own in them like a lot of the free designs use. I even offered them here as a WSO.

The themes were selling pretty well from the site until I received a Dispute from Paypal because someone that bought the theme claimed that the sales copy on my site was misleading and didn't describe the themes properly. He wanted his money back.

Just by coincidence today, A friend of mine was looking in the Sitepoint Marketplace in the themes for sale section and came upon an ad for Wordpress Sales Letter Themes: Build a Sales Letter Website in a Matter of Minutes with Wordpress!! Just upload and edit.

He was curious and clicked onto the go to site link and he came upon my sales copy and theme but under a different website url: Wordpress Sales Page .

This is the exact site with the exact sales copy of my site. When you click the buy it now button the guy is selling it for more money also. He has stolen my whole site including copy and graphics and is trying to pass it off as his own. He is also using my Youtube video on his site. I am selling the themes for personal use without any resale rights whatsoever. The themes are labeled as such.

What really bugs me is that he bought my themes, is illegally selling my themes, using my exact sales copy to make sales and is trying to get his money back with a Paypal dispute from me too.

I have notified Paypal, his hosting provider:Hostgator and his domain host: Godaddy.

I am hoping that Paypal clears me in the dispute, but they always seem to side with the buyer no matter what.

I was creating more themes because I thought it could be a viable side business, but I have decided to rethink the plan and probably won't create any more themes in the future. I think this is a despicable situation.