I posted and add for a 2br apt close to Jin'An Temple 2 days ago.
Look what I found today: exactly the same add, copied but with a different email address for reference.
How could this happen?! Aren't moderators supposed to work and avoid stuff like this?!
Did the same ever happen to you guys?

BTW if you need a nice 2br apt by JinAn, here is my address:
apple@da-re.org

Must be some dodgy real estate agent... You could perhaps spam them.

Wow.. imagine that happening here in China, of all places..

Don't blame the bad behavior of the crap behavior of some local people on the moderators!

Nice pics on your site.. I might copy a few myself

Relax.

i remember your ad and the photos... if not mistaken you were trying to help the owner find new tennants because he was a cool person.

not cool that someone stole the ad... but i doubt that the mods can do much about it... posts like that should be in classified; however, the apartment looked decent from the photos... the louse who stole them probably couldn't place a knight in check.

somehow i don't think makes sense to anyone but me.

It makes sense, though i'll admit, it's a little odd-sounding.

Knight in check... hehe

But Galosh, don't feel bad. I had an entire website stolen before. HTML code completely copied/pasted onto a Chinese site. Fortunately they also copied the google adsense codes too, and I cashed in for a brief time before I emailed them & told them to **** off & quit stealing my site.

skyline5k wrote:But Galosh, don't feel bad. I had an entire website stolen before. HTML code completely copied/pasted onto a Chinese site. Fortunately they also copied the google adsense codes too, and I cashed in for a brief time before I emailed them & told them to **** off & quit stealing my site.

I have been hit both ways - my whole website was stolen by a couple of foreigners who run a real estate agency in Shanghai.

Same problem as skyline5k. You could go to their URL and see my whole site complete with my website name before they made changes. They have changed things now of course, but the site is based upon the database that I built up over the course of a year or so. They made an embarrassingly low offer to buy the site, I turned them down and instead sold it to someone else, so they stole a copy of it and put it up as their own.

The real estate company in question - Space Property.

Ah ah thats why their site (very nice by the way) has completely out of date property listings... Ludicrous.

If you want to protect you web sites I suggest that you don one of the following:

1. Encrypt all pages, which turns all HTML into jibberish
2. Run the webpage from a database, thus there is nothing to copy at all
3. Have a hardcore programmer disable menus on your website, by running it in an Active-X environment
4. To avoid pictures being reused you can sign up for a service keeping track of your pictures by using hidden watermarks that "talk" to servers



People steal like crazy, but there is one law that is Universal and that's the WWW copyright law. Even in China you can drag a person to court for breaking this law and a lot of foreigners actually do that. Just remember to give them a warning first and save the mail you send!

On the real estate front, you get used to local agents doing dumb things. A friend of mine had his lease expire, and his landlord told him that he could extend the lease if he liked, but he intended to sell the apartment within 3 to 6 months so he could only guarantee another 3 months for my friend.

Imagine my friends surprise when a real estate agent shows up at his door and tells him that he needs to move out within a week. Furthermore, he asks my friend for the landlord's phone number. My friend is not silly, but his Chinese is not great so he takes the agent's card and asks me to give the landlord a call. A quick call to the landlord confirms it's rubbish, and that this agent is trying to pull a fast one by forcing my friend out, finding a buyer, and then pressuring the landlord to sell quickly.

The agent turned up again the next day, and building management "arrested" him and gave him a nice going over before sending him on his way...