Bloggers / Influencers releasing products [Please read note in post #966]

A_smurf · 14-10-2017 10:17AM

I don’t blame the person who ran the page for deleting the posts, no one wants to receive any threat of legal action, even if it may not hold up. It feels to me that the company waited until the outrage about the products had died down online before enacting any form of legal action against that account. It still doesn’t mean that it was fair for the person who ran the account to delete all the posts, even though they were telling the truth and showing the true products and their mark-up.

Disclaimer: Mods feel free to delete if this is in any way stepping over the line,

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 14-10-2017 10:36AM

Exhibit A

wendydoll · 14-10-2017 12:14PM

She's only after putting herself back into negative light again. The whole thing was after dying down and now she's after bring it to the surface again.

SpillingTheTea · 14-10-2017 12:40PM

anna080 wrote: »

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I know the person who PM'd this won't mind me sharing.

Basically what appears to me is that they are threatening anyone who mentions it so they can wipe the slate clean so they look unblemished.

If Evoke (and boards) get rid of the 'defamatory' posts saying she's the designer, it means the insta technically (by default now) is defamatory

wyrn · 14-10-2017 12:45PM

Fair play to the person who put up the Instagram page, it was certainly eye opening. For me, I don't care if people want to charge an arm and a leg for an item they bought cheaply - all I want is a bit of transparency.<snip>

In regards to the Instagram page deleting the previous posts, I'm not surprised. If I got a DM like that, I'd have probably folded. I know there was no real case for it but these things legally can drag out and is it really worth the hassle and money?

Finally, in one of the Instagram posts the owner mentioned not updating post due to ill health. I feel this might also be another contributory factor to shutting down. I wish the Irishbloggerscammer a speedy recovery. Thank you for opening my eyes.

I wonder if that page actually made a negative impact on sales for those bloggers and their products.

wyrn · 14-10-2017 12:50PM

Actually on another note, I wouldn't mind if a blogger sold on pieces from places like AliExpress with a bit of a mark up. Not too massive mind. If they framed it as having sourced the current trends and fairly good quality - then I'd probably be more likely to purchase off a blogger than the source because of time (postage from Ireland rather than China), quality (it's not completely tacky) and that it looks like the stock photo.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 14-10-2017 12:58PM

Rosie c sells her Ali express sunglasses for 18 Euro. I know I can get them on ski express for less but I wouldn't mind paying 18 as they're not expensive for sunglasses and I wouldn't have to wait on delivery. 95 for a hair piece that's 2 dollars? Oh please.

SpillingTheTea · 14-10-2017 12:58PM

https://evoke.ie/style/fashion-fix/taylor-rose-hair-accessories

I tried googling Evoke & Taylor and Rose and this is the only one that pops up and as you can now see that the couple of paragraphs down it now say's 'Hand Picked'

:mad:

MuffinTop86 · 14-10-2017 01:16PM

Sure the seagull lover got solicitor’s involved on a chicken fillet roll facebook page, after proclaiming the post was “gas”.

The fake claws are out.

njs030 · 14-10-2017 01:18PM

Looks like it's back to the days of no names

retro:electro · 14-10-2017 01:29PM

notjustsweet wrote: »

Looks like it's back to the days of no names

Bloggers/influencers releasing products. Please do not name any names of bloggers. Please do not name their products. Please do not name the manufacturing process. Please do not name if they are white label. Please do not name Ali express. Please do not link to cheaper items. Please do not name people who are clearly ripping off their customers.

lemmno · 14-10-2017 01:42PM

It's 1940s ireland again. Censor the people!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 14-10-2017 01:42PM

Support Irish businesses!! Spend 100 Euro on a hair clip. Ignore the Chinese elephant in the room

SpillingTheTea · 14-10-2017 01:54PM

'Please buy my crown for 120euro, that I purchased for 10euro, but don't ever question me' *eyeroll*

lemmno · 14-10-2017 02:10PM

MuffinTop86 wrote: »

Sure the seagull lover got solicitor’s involved on a chicken fillet roll facebook page, after proclaiming the post was “gas”.

The fake claws are out.

Stick-on claws you mean!! :P

I love that's she's threatening legal action over another page using her pic considering 70% of the pics she posts are taken from other pages. All those memes and 'outfit inspo' pics weren't created by you, were they dear?

retro:electro · 14-10-2017 02:16PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you post something on Facebook, and another entity resposted said picture- you cannot sue them for copyright since you have lost your "copyright" by uploading it to the public sphere in the first place. If you are that precious about it then maybe don't upload it in the first place? I only know a bit about this because a friend of mine who lives in Australia contacted me and told me a picture of me was being used to advertise an Internet cafe. But when I looked into it there was nothing I could do (I wasn't that bothered really) because I'd uploaded the picture to Facebook, where they sourced it, and I had essentially "surrendered" my rights.

baby and crumble · 14-10-2017 02:22PM

Alright guys, I've had to close the thread again, which I really didn't want to do.

There are legal ramifications for Boards.ie when posters get into this kind of back and forth on legal matters.

I will review with the other mods in the meantime.

Please don't open up more threads on the matter.

Thanks.

B&C

Bloggers / Influencers releasing products [Please read note in post #966]

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