{"id":935,"date":"2007-01-23T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T23:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2007-01-23T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T23:33:55","slug":"just-incredible-incredibleagentcom-steals-images-and-content-from-prominent-real-estate-webloggers-to-sell-free-weblogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/935\/just-incredible-incredibleagentcom-steals-images-and-content-from-prominent-real-estate-webloggers-to-sell-free-weblogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Just incredible: IncredibleAgent.com steals images and content from prominent real estate webloggers to sell &#8220;free&#8221; weblogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanna hear something incredible? Odysseus the TV Spokesmodel Bloodhound, unbeknownst to anyone, has been serving as the Spokesmodel for an internet vendor&#8217;s site. Involuntarily. Without compensation. Without permission.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me for the following enormous image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.incredibleagent.com\/services\/blogs.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/IncredAgent.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love those eyes staring out at you, looking for you through the mail slot. But what you are seeing are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/\" target=\"_blank\">BloodhoundBlog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghhomesdaily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Homes Daily<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlpodcast.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike&#8217;s Corner<\/a>, all pimping for the &#8220;free&#8221; weblogs offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incredibleagent.com\/services\/blogs.php\" target=\"_blank\">Incredible Agent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incredible chutzpah, in any case. I&#8217;m sure they would want to argue that they are using these three weblogs to illustrate the <i>idea<\/i> of a real estate weblog. Why wouldn&#8217;t they use some of <i>their own<\/i> weblogs as illustrations? You answer that one. What matters is that they <i>cannot<\/i> use the work product &#8212; and likenesses! &#8212; of the contributors to BloodhoundBlog to sell their product without our permission.<\/p>\n<p>We have asked them to cease and desist, informing the other offended parties.<\/p>\n<p>I am told &#8212; I have not checked myself &#8212; that their &#8220;free&#8221; weblogs are not even free weblogs in the sense that you can get a free weblog from Blogger.com or WordPress.com &#8212; sign up and you&#8217;re on your way. Instead, the Incredible Agent &#8220;free&#8221; weblog offer seems to be a lead gathering form. I don&#8217;t care. I cannot imagine a worse way to advertise their business that inciting three prominent real estate webloggers to publicly express our anger at their sleazy sales tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Smart&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanna hear something incredible? Odysseus the TV Spokesmodel Bloodhound, unbeknownst to anyone, has been serving as the Spokesmodel for an internet vendor&#8217;s site. Involuntarily. Without compensation. Without permission. Forgive me for the following enormous image: Who doesn&#8217;t love those eyes staring out at you, looking for you through the mail slot. But what you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1601,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1601\/seven-days-of-the-dog-old-bushmills-on-the-rocks\/","url_meta":{"origin":935,"position":0},"title":"Seven Days of the Dog: Old Bushmills on the rocks . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's the day, the first day of the second year of BloodhoundBlog. 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