Copy cat! Copy cat! You copy this and that!
#16
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 23
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good bloggers do nothing." --Edmund Burke
#22
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 3,736
Who copied who on the sub $400 Lima flight? While the total travel time is 20-25 hours each way on this "deal" no HT was given by either. I'm guessing TFD posted it first? Doesn't seem like a coincidence.
The Flight Deal:
http://www.theflightdeal.com/2015/07...ing-all-taxes/
Loyalty Traveler:
http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....comment-832932
The Flight Deal:
http://www.theflightdeal.com/2015/07...ing-all-taxes/
Loyalty Traveler:
http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....comment-832932
#23
Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Park, CO
Programs: Tegridy Elite
Posts: 5,678
Who copied who on the sub $400 Lima flight? While the total travel time is 20-25 hours each way on this "deal" no HT was given by either. I'm guessing TFD posted it first? Doesn't seem like a coincidence.
The Flight Deal:
http://www.theflightdeal.com/2015/07...ing-all-taxes/
Loyalty Traveler:
http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....comment-832932
The Flight Deal:
http://www.theflightdeal.com/2015/07...ing-all-taxes/
Loyalty Traveler:
http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....comment-832932
#24
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: NYC
Programs: Kettle Class
Posts: 796
I follow Ric's blog and TFD pretty religiously and while Ric has been posting flight deals more frequently over the past couple of months, IME the deals he posts rarely overlap with what the TFD find.
I consider this a coincidence and will continue following both. Of course, others are free to make their own interpretation.
I consider this a coincidence and will continue following both. Of course, others are free to make their own interpretation.
Who copied who on the sub $400 Lima flight? While the total travel time is 20-25 hours each way on this "deal" no HT was given by either. I'm guessing TFD posted it first? Doesn't seem like a coincidence.
The Flight Deal:
http://www.theflightdeal.com/2015/07...ing-all-taxes/
Loyalty Traveler:
http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....comment-832932
The Flight Deal:
http://www.theflightdeal.com/2015/07...ing-all-taxes/
Loyalty Traveler:
http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....comment-832932
#26
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Monterey, California
Programs: Affiliated with all, participate in some
Posts: 2,188
Happened across this post today.
I have no problem crediting another site when I find a low fare through another site. I have credited The Flight Deal many times in the past few months since posting about airfare deals.
Finding low fares is not rocket science. A few times a day I go to Google Flights and look for fares.
I am low tech. I don't follow a bunch of blogs looking for flight deals. When I don't have the time to write a long travel post and I want to post something, I simply search Los Angeles and San Francisco on Google Flights for low fares to places.
The Flight Deal will tell you about eight different airports where you can fly to Hong Kong. My focus are deals from California where I live and I generally write about airfare deals from Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Since very good deals are often only around for a few hours, when I find a really low airfare like the Lima deal, I write my post. I do not look to see if it was posted elsewhere.
A good example happened in April when there was the $380 fare from LAX to Jakarta. I found this fare one morning when I woke up and checked Google Flights. After publishing my article, I searched to see if it was mentioned on other blogs and found The Flight Deal had posted it a few hours earlier and mentioned it was available from SJC and SNA too.
http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....-sep-dec-2015/
Then, after reading The Flight Deal, I checked SJC and SNA to verify the low fare to CGK was available from those airports. I added the SJC and SNA airport fare to the end of my post about 30 minutes after I posted the initial blog entry on Loyalty Traveler and mentioned I had seen it on The Flight Deal.
While checking SJC, I saw there was also a $389 fare on Delta from San Jose to Kuala Lumpur.
I live 75 miles from San Jose, California and I immediately booked my $389 ticket to Kuala Lumpur and then blogged about the SJC-KUL deal.
http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....-kuala-lumpur/
My objective is to put out low airfare deals from California and sometimes other airports. I intentionally don't check sites like Airfare Watchdog and The Flight Deal before doing my own searches to avoid simply copying their finds.
When I do find a deal on those sites, I credit them as the source of my find.
Nearly all the airfare deals I post are found directly from Google Flights searches.
I have no problem crediting another site when I find a low fare through another site. I have credited The Flight Deal many times in the past few months since posting about airfare deals.
Finding low fares is not rocket science. A few times a day I go to Google Flights and look for fares.
I am low tech. I don't follow a bunch of blogs looking for flight deals. When I don't have the time to write a long travel post and I want to post something, I simply search Los Angeles and San Francisco on Google Flights for low fares to places.
The Flight Deal will tell you about eight different airports where you can fly to Hong Kong. My focus are deals from California where I live and I generally write about airfare deals from Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Since very good deals are often only around for a few hours, when I find a really low airfare like the Lima deal, I write my post. I do not look to see if it was posted elsewhere.
A good example happened in April when there was the $380 fare from LAX to Jakarta. I found this fare one morning when I woke up and checked Google Flights. After publishing my article, I searched to see if it was mentioned on other blogs and found The Flight Deal had posted it a few hours earlier and mentioned it was available from SJC and SNA too.
http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....-sep-dec-2015/
Then, after reading The Flight Deal, I checked SJC and SNA to verify the low fare to CGK was available from those airports. I added the SJC and SNA airport fare to the end of my post about 30 minutes after I posted the initial blog entry on Loyalty Traveler and mentioned I had seen it on The Flight Deal.
While checking SJC, I saw there was also a $389 fare on Delta from San Jose to Kuala Lumpur.
I live 75 miles from San Jose, California and I immediately booked my $389 ticket to Kuala Lumpur and then blogged about the SJC-KUL deal.
http://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea....-kuala-lumpur/
My objective is to put out low airfare deals from California and sometimes other airports. I intentionally don't check sites like Airfare Watchdog and The Flight Deal before doing my own searches to avoid simply copying their finds.
When I do find a deal on those sites, I credit them as the source of my find.
Nearly all the airfare deals I post are found directly from Google Flights searches.
Last edited by satori; Jul 12, 2015 at 1:09 pm
#27
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Programs: IAMAW Local 368/HAL 2 Star Mariner
Posts: 740
My anger was not in envy, FTG. Several travel blogs lifted photos from my trip reports right here on FlyerTalk, which is unauthorized under the Creative Commons No Commercial use and No Derivative Use (NCCUNDU) license that protects them and ensures my proprietary rights.
As I said before, I sent cease and desist letters to these bloggers ordering them to take them down immediately or face legal action. I now also use reverse image search technology to discover if any other bloggers are trying to steal my photos.
And no, I'm not going to say which blogs stole them but let's just say that they were some of the prominent, clearly - commercial ones that may or may not have been mentioned previously in this topic.
Any blogger who uses MY trip report pictures for their own "opportunity" will be viciously gone after by me. I will not tolerate their theft.
-LPDAL
As I said before, I sent cease and desist letters to these bloggers ordering them to take them down immediately or face legal action. I now also use reverse image search technology to discover if any other bloggers are trying to steal my photos.
And no, I'm not going to say which blogs stole them but let's just say that they were some of the prominent, clearly - commercial ones that may or may not have been mentioned previously in this topic.
Any blogger who uses MY trip report pictures for their own "opportunity" will be viciously gone after by me. I will not tolerate their theft.
-LPDAL
Last edited by LPDAL; Oct 9, 2015 at 12:55 pm
#29
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Programs: IAMAW Local 368/HAL 2 Star Mariner
Posts: 740
What these bloggers do not realize is that my photos are licensed via Creative Commons. They MAY NOT be used for commercial purposes, MAY NOT be derived from for any sort of work, and MAY NOT be used ANYWHERE without my express consent.
-LPDAL