Palgiarism - can someone clarify?

[cherylannej]

Totally agree Jadedragon, that was my concern too...however, as he needs to post the eventually chosen articles on ebay he can be sure we will all be highly vigilant for any funny business!!

[AmyT]

I just wanted to come back to this post because I think it's the same public request I have just submitted to, and I found - by a simple ebay search - that the client has himself plagiarised ALL of his supposed original content - that's obviously why he wanted to have this rewritten! However his plagiarised content is already on ebay for all to see, and he hasn't even amended any of it, so he's not afraid of plagiarism per se! The worry is that if any of our submission still contains even a smattering of 'our client's wording' (which of course we believed was his) simply because it was well-stated originally and needed no improvement.....we'll now find these words never were his after all! So whoever gets their article purchased will have to go back to ebay and do a thorough search against similar listings, to check that there's truly no unintended duplication! I cannot believe any seller would have the nerve to lift, word for word, their sales copy from another seller's site.

Luckily I found out he had plagiarised the whole 'original listing' copy before I made my submission.

I appreciate some insight on this buyer... I had been emailing him a few times and he seemed decent enough. But he's looked at my article a few times and hasn't bought it so I was curious about the whole scenario. I am pretty sure that I don't have any 100% direct quotes save a few two-word phrases and the final disclaimer at the end "the seller assumes all responsibiltiy..."

Hmmm... is it the writer's job to check this against plagerism? Or is it the eBay guy's responsibiltiy?

[cherylannej]

Oh and...I think the same client has in fact written his own testimonials too, on his own website! Strange language similarities and errors noted...hmm.

[AmyT]

Say, Cherylannej, would you recommend that I not post the entire article for preview? I usually do but in this case....

Amy

[Celeste Stewart]

Ed checks all submitted articles for plagiarism. They won't get approved if they are flagged by his super-plagiarism-detecting tools - and you'll hear about it because CC has a zero tolerance policy.

[Celeste Stewart]

I think we need to be careful about speculating that a client has plagiarized content he wants CC writers to rewrite. The customer may have permission to use whatever copy that was; he may have multiple eBay accounts; the content may be inexpensive PLR copy - who knows?

[AmyT]

*sigh* It appears that this customer bought someone else's article... Oh, well. Congrats to whoever it was that got the $20... It's hard to work with public requests -- probably be some time, though, before I start getting private requests.

Thanks for all of your help, all!

Amy