I am a concerned consumer. I purchased a product, and then I found it being plagerised on eHow. I contacted the manufacturer of the product, and I contacted eHow. The manufacturer of the item told me the eHow article was not endorsed by them. I contacted eHow and never received a response.
Here's the story:
An Author on eHow.com has violated eHow's Rules and has copied a Trademarked and Patented item from the Internet. This is not allowed on eHow.com, so I sent eHow an email and asked them to remove the violated and plagiarised content. I never heard back from eHow.com so I am filing a complaint.
EHow, you should NOT allow your authors to plagerise content from other websites!
The Author's pen name is "veryirie's." The name of the article is "How to Warm a Cold Hand." I contacted the author, and she was rude and ignored a request to remove the plagerised information.
Veryirie's wrote an eHow article copying information from the inventor and manufacturer "IGMproducts.com." The product is available only through authorized resellers on eBay, Etsy, Amazon and through the manufacturer, IGMproducts. The instructions and pictures clearly illustrate plagiarism.
The eHow article is dated January 22. The item plagiarized was a patented product at the time the article was published on eHow. The item is also trademarked and can be confirmed through the USA Trademark Office.
Internet plagiarism is being approved & allowed by eHow. This is wrong. If a person takes ideas from another person or website, then that person or website should be listed as the source of the article's content. Or, prior permission to use the information should be received by eHow before publishing another person's content and ideas.
More should be done to investigate the plagiarism being allowed on eHow.com. It makes me think the website is a scam, and the authors are nothing more than plagiarists with too much time on their hands!
In all fairness to the manufacturer and the consumers who have purchased this item, I recommend the eHow article be removed or the manufacturer be named as a source of information.
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