Let me begin by saying that this isn’t in any respect what I had deliberate to weblog about at the moment. However y’all, I’m in a temper. I’m livid. I’m simply so extremely annoyed.
Yesterday, I shared with y’all about how I recognized a shipping container scam on Facebook Marketplace. I noticed crimson flags straight away, so I didn’t truly come near letting them separate me from my cash, however I’m positive others have! And the considered that makes me indignant.
We’ve all come throughout scams on-line. If we haven’t been scammed ourselves, we undoubtedly know somebody who has. My mother not too long ago purchased some large, full, beautiful fake ferns from a Fb advert, or so she thought. What she truly obtained was a tiny pretend fern with about 5-7 leaves that have been about 10 inches lengthy. It was a far cry from the large, full fern within the commercial that most likely spanned at the least three toes.
It’s to the purpose that I gained’t belief any advert anymore except it’s from a enterprise I’m accustomed to. I get loads of advertisements from Hole, Loft, Ann Taylor, Previous Navy, Aerosoles, Anthropologie, and different well-known shops. I belief these. I buy from these. I get pleasure from seeing their advertisements as a result of I can sustain with their gross sales. However I’m to the purpose that I don’t belief any retailer I don’t already know. And that’s actually unhappy. That’s an enormous drawback to the reputable small companies which are attempting to get their services on the market to the lots. However the truth is that the scammers are ruining it for them.
How on the planet does Meta not have extra management over this? I imply, they’re one of many greatest information assortment firms on the planet. They acquire a lot information on us that they know us (and our purchasing habits) higher than we all know ourselves. So if they’ve us so dialed in, how do they not have these rip-off firms dialed in? I simply don’t get it. And it appears to be getting worse and worse by the day.
So I used to be completely annoyed this morning, having already handled that rip-off transport container firm two days in the past, once I acquired a message from a reader who informed me about an organization utilizing my images. This isn’t new. Firms have been stealing my images for over a decade to make use of for his or her commercials. I’m fairly positive each blogger on the market has needed to cope with this.
My first publicity to this was again in 2010 when a Texas inside designer stole images of a room I embellished for the Waco Symphony Showhouse years in the past and used my footage to promote her enterprise. I wrote about it here. And it has occurred many instances since then. I’ve had contractors, builders, and handymen steal my images and use them to promote their companies. It astounds me how a few of these folks really feel so free to steal footage of another person’s work after which declare it as their very own work and use it to promote their companies.
So when this commenter stated an organization was utilizing my footage, that’s what I anticipated. (Had I learn her remark extra rigorously, I’d have realized this was very totally different.) However this had nothing to do with my home or a room I had designed or embellished. No, the images this firm was utilizing have been OF MY FACE. That they had actually stolen earlier than and after footage OF MY FACE to make use of to promote their (most likely rip-off) pores and skin tightening product.
That is the web site. The corporate title is tiny, nevertheless it’s referred to as Meterperion…
They’re promoting this eye tightener cream, though the girl within the Fb advert video makes use of it throughout her face…
I’ve by no means used this firm’s product, and I had by no means even heard of it till at the moment. However that didn’t cease them from stealing my footage and making this pretend earlier than and after to push their rip-off product.
To start with, what a silly comparability! In that first image, I don’t have on any make-up in any respect. Within the second image, I’ve on make-up, my hair is finished, and the lighting is vastly totally different. However in addition they retouched that second image! I’ve been utilizing castor oil on my face (though I believe that image was taken earlier than I began, or proper after I began), and whereas castor oil has helped my pores and skin tremendously, and I can see an enormous distinction within the high quality traces and wrinkles on my face, it most actually didn’t flip my face into porcelain, which is what it seems to be like of their ridiculous retouched photograph above.
That is the photograph they stole. I nonetheless have wrinkles. I haven’t seen that individual above of their “after” photograph in about 25 years.
I imply, I’m so unbelievably indignant on the sheer stage of dishonesty and scams. Possibly we’d all be higher off returning to a “purchase native” mentality. You by no means know what you’re going to get on-line, nevertheless it appears to me like at the least 50% of the commercials out there are whole scams.
And FYI, I’m not utilizing plain castor oil. I do love castor oil, however my bonus sister Cathi despatched me some tallow and castor oil cream that she makes and requested me to attempt it out. That stuff is AMAZING!!! I had tried tallow earlier than (the Kushi model), and whereas I did prefer it rather a lot, it was by no means a type of merchandise that I believed, “Oh my gosh! That is wonderful!!” In reality, I had cancelled my subscription as a result of I most well-liked my plain castor oil.
However once I began utilizing Cathi’s tallow and castor oil balm, my pores and skin LOVED it! It makes my pores and skin really feel so silky clean and moisturized. In order that’s what I take advantage of at night time now. I nonetheless get the advantages of the castor oil with the added moisturizing advantages of tallow. Her stuff is so good that I’ve informed her I can by no means be with out it now. She’s only a one-person operation, however you can get some here. She makes small batches at a time, so if she’s bought out, you may test again later.
Anyway, the ethical of the story right here is that, in my humble opinion, the web is now crammed principally with scammers attempting to separate you out of your cash. Follow tried and true companies, or companies recommended to you by folks you now and belief. As a result of when you get exterior of these companies, it’s just like the Wild West on the market.
Additionally, be at liberty to go flood the comment section of this company’s advertisements with your honest opinion of them stealing footage from me to promote their rip-off product. I left two feedback, however they deleted them. And in the event that they stole my footage, I’d think about that the remainder of the “earlier than and after” footage on that product itemizing are stolen as properly. And I’m positive the so-called “opinions” are pretend additionally.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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