Same article sold twice for full rights?!

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geniuswaitress
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Same article sold twice for full rights?!

Post by geniuswaitress »

This looks like a bad glitch.

I sent an e-mail to the site, but I wanted to post here in case someone checks the forums before the messages.

"Four Ways to Please Your Lover" appears to have sold AGAIN for full rights (sold a couple of days ago). The second buyer is the one who requested it via public request. The first buy doesn't seem to have been part of the scam batch.

It shows twice under "My Sales," with full rights listed both times.

Who gets the article?

I have a second similar piece ready to go (four tips). If someone has to give up the article, perhaps we could substitute (via private request)?

Happy to have the sales, but YIKES.
BarryDavidson
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Re: Same article sold twice for full rights?!

Post by BarryDavidson »

Perhaps when they put it back in the system with full rights available, it doesn't delete the entry for the fraudulent buy. That's the only guess I can think of before my first two pots of coffee. With the large numbers of the last two attempted fraudulent buys, support would be hard-pressed to delete every single entry without entering every account and deleting the entries by hand.
geniuswaitress
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Re: Same article sold twice for full rights?!

Post by geniuswaitress »

Yep, but this wasn't part of the fraudulent buy, as far as I can tell. This sale occurred after that, and was a pretty isolated sale (I don't think the user bought other stuff, or not much of it that I could see.)

It's possible that there was another more recent scammer, but we weren't alerted about it. This time, I guess I have to hope for it to have been fake.

I'm just hoping to hear something soon. The longer this goes without action, the higher the potential for the articles to be posted to websites, which makes it worse.
BarryDavidson
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Re: Same article sold twice for full rights?!

Post by BarryDavidson »

Did CC leave the place which shows the actual money you've made so far this month in place? It used to be in "Your Account," but I haven't explored much lately.
geniuswaitress
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Re: Same article sold twice for full rights?!

Post by geniuswaitress »

Nope. But I've received emails about selling it both times, once on the 7th and once on the 10th. There's a number 2 in my column that shows number of times sold, which shouldn't even be possible with full rights.

The second buyer has posted the content as of today.

I still haven't heard anything back from CC.
geniuswaitress
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Re: Same article sold twice for full rights?!

Post by geniuswaitress »

Bumping this.

I should probably stop worrying about this, but I can't. If it is indeed a site glitch, it could have even more disastrous repercussions.
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