Yes, I am still alive. Yes, I am still on hiatus. Additionally, I still answer reference requests.

On May 31, Khloe Cruise contacted me for a reference. I was not familiar with her, so I visited her P411 profile, reviews, and website before replying to ensure she was a legitimate and reputable provider. When I visited her website, I discovered that she had copy & pasted the text from my own website's "packages" and "FAQ" pages. She has adjusted some minor details (ethnicity, physical description, *some* rates), but the bulk of the text is my own. I replied promptly to her email and requested that she either take down or rewrite in her own words the clearly copyrighted text she had stolen. Additionally, I gave her a positive reference on the client (because I'm awesome like that, haha). In the interest of full disclosure, I did contact the gentleman to let him know that I had given him the good reference he definitely deserves, but that Khloe had stolen some of my work.

Khloe did not reply to my email (not even a thank you for the reference), and she did not amend her mistake. I wrote her again on June 4, letting her know that if she did not comply with my request, I would make a public issue over it. I have still not received a reply, and there remain no changes on her website, so now I'm writing this post.

Clearly, she is able to be contacted, as you can see she's posted an ad in this forum within the past 24 hours.

In the grand scheme of things, I recognize this is not the worst provider-on-provider transgression ever committed. However, each of us works so hard to stand out from each other, and part of that is creating websites that portray our own personalities. It's incredibly difficult to present what is standard information in one's own words -- I have put in hundreds of hours into ensuring my site covers all the basics in a clear and concise manner. To have this plagiarized is, admittedly, flattering. Regardless, theft is theft, and it is never okay.

Khloe, will you respond at all now? Even an apology would be nice.

You should simply post this thread as a reply to her ad when she posts here. At some point, I think that would probably get a response.

LOL  OFF

when she does post, Carrie could add to what you recommend - 'so if you want the real deal, here I am.'

Now that might get things inflamed a bit - but tit for tat, eh?

Also - for Carrie - I am in design work and one underlying principal - study what works, and anything can be improved. Meaning 'copy what works' and make it better.

Just know - I've been quite active on TER in the past in FL - 100 posts plus per month - and you are one of the funniest and wittiest (is that a word?) ladies I've experienced on the boards. Yes, take her copying as a compliment.

I looked at her faq section and the rates and her site doesn't look like yours at all to me.
You are very sensitive about this.. and I can see a blatant cut and paste.. BUT this doesn't seem like that to me.  

gosh you seem so so so upset.  Hurts my heart to read your distress.   For your peace of mind..

I REALLY feel your personality shows on your site and there is nothing that seems similar on this other girls site.  really.

It is bad for a person be so worked up ... maybe you have other stress in your life you are misdirecting to this issue?  just an idea.
I'm all about seeing the whole picture and being happy, healthy, and as sane as possible.

cheers!  ALEA

I think I might get a talking to from the mods for that, but it would be funny. To me, anyway.

Even after posting this and what became a long, dramatic thread on another site, I still have not received a reply from Khloe. She's (kind of) communicated with me second hand through another lady, but as far as personally contacting me? Nada.

She (apparently) accused her web designer of the plagiarism, and he accused her, stating that all the text was emailed to him and he just did the design/graphics. He says after I made my post his FTP access to her site was removed, so regardless of who was originally to blame, the ball is in Khloe's court now (or whoever currently does her site updates for her).

SOME of the copyrighted material has been changed. It's not much, and it's still obviously copied directly from my site, but it's a step in the right direction. I've given up hope of ever getting a reply from Khloe, and this has become more of a headache than I'd expected, so I'm done pursuing this for now.

Hopefully this has at least let some people know that she's capable of shady behavior, and maybe that will save them some trouble of their own.

Thank you to everyone for your support. Keep calm and carry on.

After all this, I don't think khloe will be posting here for a while.