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01-11-10, 10:46 PM | |
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Wow! One incident reflects poorly upon both Collage and Lalo's people, but two confirms that someone with an interest in promoting Lalo's DVDs is deliberately seeking out reviews to post on vendor sites and that Collage has a poor system for checking to see if reviews are coming from legitimate sources.
For those who missed it, here's the other thread on a review cut from VF and pasted onto Collage's reviews.
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01-12-10, 06:27 AM | |
Join Date: May 2004
Location: East Bay, CA
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Since the person who plagiarized those reviews on Collage obviously reads VF, I hope they are reading these recent VF posts and can see the damage they are causing Lalofit.
Perhaps because I'm an academic, I am really troubled by this copying of other peoples' work without permission. I have been on the fence (and ready to spring) about ordering Lalofit2, but I'm off for now until this gets sorted out. |
01-12-10, 06:32 AM | |
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Location: Virginia
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I think that's why it bothered me so much as well. I too, am an academic, and I understand the importance of acknowledging other people's thoughts and work. Perhaps someone should write to Lalo and let him know what's going on. He should at least have a chance to respond, given that this has the potential to negatively affect his future sales.
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01-12-10, 08:51 AM | ||
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On a side note, yesterday at Amazon I was looking at Mimi Solaire's Yin Yoga DVD, and noticed that in the item description, a review was given and credited as "Video Fitness Reviews"- the same review that appears here (a very good one!) by JustSandra. I was wondering if she or WWWendy had given permission for that to appear, or is permission even necessary? As long as the source is given, is Internet content considered to be public property and can be lifted and used in that way? |
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01-12-10, 10:11 AM | |
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, CA
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I have complained both here and on Collage's forum. There's no accountability for reviews at Collage. You don't need to register, you can submit reviews multiple times.
Gaylene mentioned you can no longer place reviews for Strike Zone. I was able to pull up the review form with no problem, although the last review posted was July, 2009. So not sure if new reviews are being posted or not. One that gets me is the number of reviews (raving) of Jari's Extremely Ripped. Most were posted on the day that the DVD was released. I asked on the "Ask Collage" forum, just how that could have happened. It was other forum members that suggested people got their DVDs from other sources earlier than Collage's release date. Collage never did answer my question. I don't believe for a minute that all those reviews were from unbiased consumers. I've suggested they impose a way of limiting an IP address to one review of any single DVD. I suspect that's not going to happen. This thing with Lalofit I believe is a fan or staff member of Lalo's. I think not only should Collage be advised, but Lalo as well. I don't think he, personally, is responsible and should know.
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01-12-10, 10:59 AM | |
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Is this (copying of VF reviews) happening with any other DVDs besides Lalo's? If not, then I doubt anyone at Collage is doing it, unless they have a thousand surplus Lalo DVDs to unload quickly.
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