www.itsasteal.ie have reposted my car add on their site.....

Col200sx

A car I was selling months ago has come up on itsasteal.ie on a Google search.

I only put it up for sale on Adverts and Donedeal. I never gave permission or wanted it anywhere else for sale.

How can they take my add, use 2 of the pics and all my add text and put it on their site?

Anybody have same happen to them?

I can include a screenshot if required.

bmstuff

Col200sx wrote: »

A car I was selling months ago has come up on itsasteal.ie on a Google search.

I only put it up for sale on Adverts and Donedeal. I never gave permission or wanted it anywhere else for sale.

How can they take my add, use 2 of the pics and all my add text and put it on their site?

Anybody have same happen to them?

I can include a screenshot if required.

http://itsasteal.ie/Publish/contactus.aspx
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Col200sx

bmstuff wrote: »

http://itsasteal.ie/Publish/contactus.aspx
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I saw that but wanted to ask here first in case anybody else has had same happen to them.

MuppetCheck

Scam? Is it your number on it?

CreepingDeath

Is it an associated site with Adverts / DoneDeal ?

Are the photos hotlinked (point to the URL of the photos on adverts or donedeal ) or are they copied and on itsasteals servers ?

If they took a copy of the photos from adverts/donedeal, and they're not associated with either site, you can claim copyright infringement on the photos I imagine.

From the "whois" record, a sole trader named Mark McGovern runs ItsASteal.ie.

Col200sx

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Scam? Is it your number on it?

Yep, my number, my photo of the car (you can see it's a badly done screenshot), all my text and other details.

Basically a copy of my add put up on their site.

EDIT: It's clearly copied from Donedeal, as the word Donedeal is written within my add and reposted on their site.

colm_mcm

Name in site changed to bewaz.com

They have a facebook page if you want to give out there, also contact donedeal

discombobulate

I was looking at a car the other week and noticed the mileage was 30000 more than on Done Deal. Asked the dealer why and they said they don't put their cars on Done Deal that DD take them from Carzone and put up there.

Not sure how truthful he was though as the mileage was the same on Carzone

Kenny Logins

Col200sx wrote: »

A car I was selling months ago has come up on itsasteal.ie on a Google search.

I only put it up for sale on Adverts and Donedeal. I never gave permission or wanted it anywhere else for sale.

How can they take my add, use 2 of the pics and all my add text and put it on their site?

Anybody have same happen to them?

I can include a screenshot if required.

Sh!te website pinching adverts to bulk up their own content.

Col200sx

Thanks for replies folks.

I heard from a friend the same happened to him before.

But after reporting it to DoneDeal, this was their reply

DoneDeal wrote:

Hi Col200sx,
Thank you for contacting us,
We would recommend you contact this site customer support to get your advert removed from the site.
I can confirm we have no affiliation with this site what do ever and would not allow them to copy the advert.
Hope this helps.

All the best,
James

I'll contact itsasteal.ie themselves later and see what they have to say about it.

corktina

itsasteal.ie...does exactly what it says on the tin

Quazzie

It's a donedeal wannabe site. The only way to start a new site like that is to suddenly flood it with ads. There are two options to achieve this. 1. Give free ads, which might work, but only if you advertise it well, and then you have people complaining in a months time when you start to charge, or 2. Just post ads from other sites on your site for free.

He went with the latter. He is taking ads from donedeal, posting them on his site, and hoping that his sudden portfolio of 2000 ads, will draw attention and then someone will actually post some paid for ads. Ya can't blame a lad for trying I suppose. The only issue is that whilst you can change the ad status to "SOLD" on donedeal, your ad will remain on itsasteal as still outstanding, and this might be a nuisance. to you.

Col200sx

Quazzie wrote: »

It's a donedeal wannabe site. The only way to start a new site like that is to suddenly flood it with ads. There are two options to achieve this. 1. Give free ads, which might work, but only if you advertise it well, and then you have people complaining in a months time when you start to charge, or 2. Just post ads from other sites on your site for free.

He went with the latter. He is taking ads from donedeal, posting them on his site, and hoping that his sudden portfolio of 2000 ads, will draw attention and then someone will actually post some paid for ads. Ya can't blame a lad for trying I suppose. The only issue is that whilst you can change the ad status to "SOLD" on donedeal, your ad will remain on itsasteal as still outstanding, and this might be a nuisance. to you.

Good point.

But what permission have they to take my/DoneDeal's add and place it there?

Quazzie

Col200sx wrote: »

Good point.

But what permission have they to take my/DoneDeal's add and place it there?

None really. I'm guessing he's just hoping that if people find their ad there that they'll see it as a free ad, thus increasing teh exposure, rather than a theft. Very optimistic by istasteal.

MrDerp

I've threatened legal action on a couple of scraper sites like this in the past.

In particular, two clones of my linkedin page appeared on other sites. One of them had some wishy-washy 'reputation' thing where they claimed someone had entered my details on the site on my behalf, to promote my reputation and invite others to do so, but they 'weren't allowed to tell me who'. I've since made my linkedin page not shared on search engines.

Lodge a complaint immediately and say they are illegally using your information under the Data Protection Act - I'm not sure if that's strictly true but I've quoted it in the past on a number of occasions.

For Forks Sake

Col200sx wrote: »

I'll contact itsasteal.ie themselves later and see what they have to say about it.

It's a stolen (ad) .ie :-D

Col200sx

MrDerp wrote: »

I've threatened legal action on a couple of scraper sites like this in the past.

In particular, two clones of my linkedin page appeared on other sites. One of them had some wishy-washy 'reputation' thing where they claimed someone had entered my details on the site on my behalf, to promote my reputation and invite others to do so, but they 'weren't allowed to tell me who'. I've since made my linkedin page not shared on search engines.

Lodge a complaint immediately and say they are illegally using your information under the Data Protection Act - I'm not sure if that's strictly true but I've quoted it in the past on a number of occasions.

DoneDeal replied to me again suggesting I do this. So I have lodged a complaint.

Also emailed itsasteal and awaiting their reply.

Caliden

If you found the ad through google, you can lodge a DMCA takedown request - http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en-gb&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs&&rd=1

CreepingDeath

Caliden wrote: »

If you found the ad through google, you can lodge a DMCA takedown request - http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en-gb&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs&&rd=1

Nice idea :-)

Google drop your search rankings depending on the number of DMCA takedowns I believe, so his web site will fall into Google obscurity.