turtlesale.com BAD GUY

[Chiro]

turtleSale.com "borrowed", without pemission. a picture from my site and is using it to represent their torts.

This is the third time they have done this.

The picture is on the homepage of my site http://russiantortoise.net

And you can also see it in the webarchive
http://web.archive.org/web/20030720191926/http://www.russiantortoise.net/

The offending site is http://www.turtlesale.com/tortoise-adoption1.html

scroll down to the russian tortoise

 

[monkeywrench133]

Sure looks like the same picture to me

You might want to get some screen shots of their site/page and post them before they pull the images and the link goes dead.

That's also what the BOI rules require, no outside links.

 

[Stardust]

They certainly do look like the exact same pictures.

 

[Chiro]

sorry about that

Their site is the first attachment

My site is the second

 

[Chiro]

well I tried to attach the pictures but that didn't work

 

[jsrocket]

Definitely the same pic

 

[Cat_72]

Gee, who would have thought that someone who purposely breeds for one-eyed and no-eyed turtles (and sells them at a premium price) would be a bad guy?

It looks like the same pic to me as well....do you at least have the screen shots saved?

 

[Seamus Haley]

This should get at least the offending one out of the way...

 

[Seamus Haley]

And posted where it belongs by the owner.

 

[Cat_72]

Thanks, Seamus.

Every time I try to do that, it turns out unbelievably huge.

 

[Chiro]

This should get at least the offending one out of the way...

Thanks for both !!!

The other link goes to the webarchives and shows my site as it was 7/20/2003 when I first put the picture on the site


Anyone know how to get them to remove it?

 

[Seamus Haley]

Thanks, Seamus.

Every time I try to do that, it turns out unbelievably huge.

Printscreen will hit everything, alt + printscreen will copy just the active window. If the window isn't full sized it'll copy a smaller image and most browsers autocorrect text wrapping for window resizing.

Then just shove it in any image editing program... paint for example, where it can be resized again if you need it to be.

Anyone having a tough time uploading on Fauna should doublecheck the file size and extention and make sure they complete the "upload" window, you have to browse for the file, hit the upload button and wait while it does it's thing.

 

[Chiro]

That's also what the BOI rules require, no outside links.

I just re-read the rules and don't see that posted...maybe I missed it

 

[Chiro]

another try at my original page

 

[monkeywrench133]

I just re-read the rules and don't see that posted...maybe I missed it

I must admit that I could not find a direct reference either, however this is a direct quote from DThomas

"I would post the screen shots because now that the links are dead, your evidence is gone. It is also one of the rules of the BOI to do that to avoid dead links."

from post #6 in this thread.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98097&page=1

Sorry for any confusion.

 

[Cat_72]

Joe, have you tried just contacting him and telling him to remove it?

BTW, nice job on the screen shot.

 

[Stardust]

Whether it is a rule or not it is dang good advice!

 

[Seamus Haley]

So who's Len Coe?

 

[Chiro]

Len Coe is/was a good friend of mine that donated some pictures for the site. He died in 2003 so I mved his picture to the home page as a sort of memorial

 

[Chiro]

Joe, have you tried just contacting him and telling him to remove it?

He did the same thing in 2004 with my boxturtle site. It was posted here

Took about 3 months to get him to remove it