Earlier on today I was doing a spot of online shopping for some sewing machine needles and I happened to notice that this particular online store was selling a hard-to-find product (which I’ll call item X) which I also sell in my own shop.  So in the name of research I went to check out what price they were retailing item X at – because it’s always good to keep abreast of what’s going on in the market place. Can you imagine my surprise as I read through their product description for item X to find that it was the same description (word for word) as my own description for item X and to top it off they had pinched my product photo too, Nice! 

Of course this shop wasn’t breaking any law, **UPDATE** was breaking the law, see AnaB’s helpful comment (comment no.1)  explaining how this guy was actually breaking the law – thanks for sharing that with us Ana and in copying, the owner sure did have some bad manners.   I contacted the owner directly on the phone and asked him politely, but assertively to write up his own product description for item X.  This might sound like pettiness on my part, but I enjoy writing my product descriptions and I try to personalize them by making them fun for me and for my customers, not for some other shop owner to do a lazy ass cut & paste job!

Tomorrow I am going to look at ways to protect yourself from (and hopefully deter) copy cats from pinching your work.

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