Jake's violation, come to find out, was not technically his doing. From our discussion, Jake hired someone to write a PHP beginner's guide. Apparently that writer was a little less than honest and rewrote "I Hate PHP" and sold it to Jake as 100% original work. So, Jake got the shaft.

I would have really appreciated him contacting his buyers about that issue, at the very least.

Yes, Jake's eBook is originally the PLR version of "I Hate PHP", offered as a WSO.

He and I have spoken about it after I found out about it on Earn1KaDay.

Jake's violation, come to find out, was not technically his doing. From our discussion, Jake hired someone to write a PHP beginner's guide. Apparently that writer was a little less than honest and rewrote "I Hate PHP" and sold it to Jake as 100% original work. So, Jake got the shaft. Unfortunately, since the title was very new and not around the net yet, Copyscape would have most likely yielded nothing.

Like I said, Jake and I have since discussed this, and we are on good terms

Congratulations on the house, and I very much enjoy your work!

I was googling for my name as I do once in awhile and came across this post so thought I should reply even though it's nearly a month old.

I rarely ever release WSO's and when I do they are typically guides or reports that I outsource to have written for my list, or to serve as PLR. This was the case with Dave's book, and once it was brought to my attention, I yanked the salespage, offered him compensation and spoke with the WSO moderator to clarify the situation. While the person who re-wrote it had every right to do so, with a PLR license, I wouldn't have featured it on the WF if I knew it was a previously released WSO, but I didn't.

I am an honest player, and am fully aware of the WF rules, and up until that incident, I had always followed them (I thought I was at that time as well, but obviously not). Those who really know me would never doubt I would never release someone else's previous WSO to make a few bucks, but I hadn't read Dave's book and I wasn't aware that the guide I paid for from someone else was originally written by him. In fact, I put part of it through Copyscape as I usually do and nothing came up.. like Dave said, it was a pretty good re-write.

Anyway, thought I'd drop in and respond.

Congrats on your new house, btw.. well earned, well deserved.

Jake

If that's the case then Jake Riley CLEARLY violated Warrior Forum rules that you must be the originator and not a resale rights or private label buyer. What a jerk.

Very interesting post here. If this is regarding the Beginning PHP ebook (The timeframe sure looks right), it isn't even Jake's work. It's mine. I offered it as PLR on the Warrior Forum back in July / August of 2007. It's a good alteration though, it took me about 5 pages to realize that it was the guide I wrote.
-Dave

Where's your next post?

aargh!

I have previously done a bit in Resale Rights, but would agree with you that price dumping is one of the biggest threats to online income.

However, I would advise people to BUY a resale rights product under the special circumstance that you might have a similar product and the master resale allows for inclusion as a bonus. Much can be said about bonuses. Many of them are boring, but sometimes something truly excellent does come up and you end up buying the product to get the bonus....

Anyway, I am truly reshaping and restructuring and Resale Rights won't be a part of what will be sold when the new webshop appears at my site. Affiliate marketing pays more and brings less hassle both in setting up etc.

Keep up the good work. Looking forward to your next article as you have far more than the 10 comments you promised would kick you back to your dashboard.

Carpe Diem.

you release a product, say javascript on PHP.

you sell MRR (not private label rights.) after sales start slowing down.

people register the product (even though they ahve purchased it from someone else.)

you release an upgrade - from version 1.0 to 2.0

these people pay YOU the upgrade fee!

esentailly, by thinking it from a marketing angle, you can turn a product into many more future buyers and listbuilders and name recognition, even if you are no longer making money off your product from each sale. (or offer a lite version, say just chapters 1-5, as a MRR- then hit them with the upgrade offer after 3 days of registering or something... or put an automatic upgrade offer into the program that poops up after x days.)

let me know what you think of my post!

Paydex