eBay users plagiarizing collectors' content...

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, 'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote:

> I'm sure this has happened to other people here, but it never happened to me
> before, and it ticks me off.  Someone posted an eBay ad for this vintage
> handheld and blatantly copied 680 words of my work into the "more
> information" part of the item's description.  Above that part, they also
> stole extensively (some text and the top photo) from the site
> www.datamath.org, but at least the jerk includes that link... There is no
> credit for my work at all.

You should be flattered.  You've "arrived" :)

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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