Bid2load.com gets a new copy cat
Browsing through The Sunday World newspaper yesterday I came across an advertisement that caught my attention about trucking, since I run www.bid2load.com a freight exchange portal, anything about trucking always appeals to me. Today I got a chance to visit their website, just to figure out how their business is structured compared to mine.
Noticed a few elements that mimic my services, however was greatly disappointed to discover they went as far as copying my intro word for word. According to co.za the domain www.zakload.co.za was registered in June and not sure when the website went live on the world wide web. I don’t have any problem with competition, however using plagiarism is not acceptable in any form.
I then sent the owner an email as per below, expressing disapproval:
Greetings Dawie,
Congratulations on launching www.zakload.co.za, however please remove the below wording with immediate effect as that was copied from us http://www.bid2load.com/truckloads/?page_id=2:
Zakloads (their domain name) is NOT a brokerage, we don’t handle any contracts or empty trucks…we’re ONLY a link (match maker) between those advertising loads on the website and those with empty trucks seeking loads. You deal directly with advertiser and zakload.co.za does not charge any commission.
Companies/individuals with loads, advertise them on the website if they’re looking for trucks to transport their cargo.
Truck operators subscribe on the website, which allows them direct access to contact details of advertisers with loads.
Viewing of empty trucks and available bulk loads is R2500 (obviously adjusted) per annum, no limits to the number of leads – posting empty trucks and available loads are free! The posting and responding to advertised trade leads is only open to paying subscribers, which allows access to contact details of all advertisers.
All email communication is initiated through the website, to avoid email harvesting.
Reply back from Dawie:
I am terribly sorry about this – we received the text from our client when we were designing and developing the web site. I will contact the client immediately and remove the text by the end of business today.
My apologies once again, NyxTek was not aware that the client copied the text from your website.
Regards
Dawie Olivier
As I’m preparing this post at 10.09pm 12 hours later, nothing has been done as per Dawie’s promise…
