Cheap Sales Mall, an affiliate of Cheap Sales Consulting Services, owned by a Mr. Cavon Simons, is a content thief.
You would think that a company like Cheap Sales Consulting that has been in business for 10 years would know that taking someone else’s content and using it without giving credit is an illegal, unethical business practice. Yet it is companies like this that give the Internet a bad name.
There is no media watchdog for the Internet. No body of governance that says “Content theft is a crime and violators will be prosecuted,” but there should be. Then content thieves like Cheap Sales Consulting Services would not be so quick to browse the article directories and lift articles that do not include bylines.
I found out that Cheap Sales Consulting engages in this practice because I typed in the name of one of my articles into Google and found it on the Cheap Sales Consulting website. Specifically on this page. If you’ll scroll down the page, you’ll see the following titles:
- Do You Really Need A Web Site?
- Direct Mail Does Not Have To Be Expensive
- Bulletin Boards and Forums Are Excellent Low-Cost Marketing Tools
- The Twin Sisters of Marketing: Catalog and Magalog
- Podcasting Is The New Medium For This Marketing Moment
- Become Your Own Local Calendar Girl And Be The Envy Of The Town
and
All of these articles were written by me, Allen Taylor. Of course, Cheap Sales Consulting was kind enough to give me a byline in order to appear as if they are giving credit to the author. But, in fact, that is not the case. The only way they could have gotten these articles is through an article directory or from my own website. Either way, they would clearly have seen my author resource box and the rules of every article directory on the Internet includes a requirement for publishers and webmasters to include the author resource box. Therefore, Cheap Sales Consulting is in clear violation of business ethics and the policies of every article directory online. As you can see, none of these articles have Allen Taylor’s author resource box with links back to his website. That, my friends, is article content theft, a growing nuisance online for article marketers.
If Mr. Cavon Simons wants to be taken seriously and be a respectable name on the Internet, he will have to play the game by the rules. I tried to send an e-mail to the webmaster’s link on the Cheap Sales Consulting website but my e-mail bounced back. I was trying to request that the webmaster include my author resource box or remove the articles.
I did find a customer service e-mail on the website, however. I sent an e-mail and asked that my author resource box be included or the articles removed. I even included my author resource box in the e-mail with links exactly as I wanted them to appear. I received the following message a couple of hours later (from a different e-mail address, of course):
Sure no problem we changed them frequently, just send us the url address of those articles on ouy site and we will either have them removed or updated. Chances are is that we will not be there to much longer becasue they are changed bi weekly anyway.
Thanks for your concern.
No signature and no contact name. No phone number. Totally anonymous. Doesn’t Cheap Sales Consulting care about customer service? Evidently not. Do you think I’ll ever order anything from Cheap Sales Consulting? Definitely not. And you shouldn’t either. Doing business with companies that engage in such unethical practices only encourages it to continue. Don’t do business with these companies, please.
I hit reply to the e-mail and tried to send Cheap Sales Consulting the URLs they requested. Again, my e-mail bounced back. That was twice. Two different e-mail addresses, one from an e-mail address from which one of their (anonymous) assistance providers e-mailed me.
Cheap Sales Consulting lists articles on 43 pages under a heading that reads “105 Ways To Make Money From Home.” I doubt that they change articles bi-weekly. They were brushing me off. A quick browse through those articles will reveal that several authors have articles on the website, some with resource boxes and some not. Some were obviously taken from article directories as Cheap Sales Consulting left the link in tact that point to those directories as the source of those articles. That being the case, it’s a wonder why Cheap Sales Consulting can’t give credit to all of the authors whose work it features on its website. I challenge Mr. Cavon Simons to make sure that happens or remove the articles of every author whose author resource box is not present with their articles. Do the right thing, Mr. Cavon. Do it today.
