AquaCon and intellectual property theft

[Anonymous]

THey have gorgonians lsited as "Great Beginner Corals". :roll:

You can find this kind of thing on lots of websites that sell livestock; it's to be expected, and I don't find it ethically wrong. It's just ignorance.

What aquacon is doing with Len/NKT/joe q. aquarist's pics is completely different, and very wrong. It's theft, and attempt to hide the theft. The 5th day thing confirms it. It also looks like they photoshopped NKT's wrasse pic, I could be wrong.

 

[DustinDorton]

Some of the pictures that I took with my previous employer are on there. They kindly left the watermark right on them since it said AC anyways.

 

[cdeakle]

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[hillbilly]

Well, it is "Aquacon"!

 

[Anonymous]

Regarding John's post:
http://reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=496612#496612

It is from a company called Softah Marine Center in Saudi Arabia. Either AquaCon got it from them, or the Softah got it from AquaCon.

 

[bckane]

I been to this store before, Its down the street from my house. a friend of mine said this place have great deal. After reading up about 3 months on what tank I wanted and the equipment I needed I took a visit to the store. I told the salesman what I'm looking for and what I wanted to setup (reef tank) here told me for want I wanted to do I couldn't do it because I was a beginner...........He ask me if I was getting my information from website forums, I said yes...he said never listed to what they have to say...I said who are you to judge me,and what I do.... Anyhow I bought a HOB filter he cut me a deal........Found the same filter at petco for 10 bucks cheaper, so I returned the filter the next day, (Unopened) they told me no returns.....This box was never opened...........ended up having to take store credit............I would never buy from people like this ever,even dont care what kind of deals they have. I havent told my friend about the photo's yet
Just my 2 cents
BTW the outletstore is called Marine Life USA
http://www.aquacon.com/directions.html

 

[Anonymous]

Are you sure there is a "f" in their store's name :?

 

[ricky1414]

Are you sure there is a "f" in their store's name :?

 

[bckane]

Are you sure there is a "f" in their store's name :?

:lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Doesn't look like any of the photos are mine. The one I question is the yellow guinea fowl puffer. But their version is so f'ed up, it definitely resembles the puffer I used to have, and I have put up some shots of him.

 

[investigator1]

What do you guys think of my new web business logo?

 

[Anonymous]

kinda grainy. Send teh RDO logo to aquacon, and have them redo it for you. They seem to have more practice.

B

 

[Anonymous]

What do you guys think of my new web business logo?

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Peace,

Chip

 

[Anonymous]

What do you guys think of my new web business logo?

hahaha!

 

[cdeakle]

How are things shaping up?

 

[Len]

Aquacon has finally contacted me as of late last week and I am working with them to resolve the issue for everyone. Hopefully they continue to cooperate.

 

[Anonymous]

Aquacon has finally contacted me as of late last week and I am working with them to resolve the issue for everyone. Hopefully they continue to cooperate.

I hope so Len, send them a link to this thread with how many "views" it has had and let them see how many potential customers they have lost.

Good luck

 

[Anonymous]

How about getting Aquacon to sign up as one of the major sponsors of RDO ?

 

[Len]

I see ethics doesn't count for ya on Mondays

If you guys see anything that shouldn't be there, let me know and it'll be taken off immediately. They are currently taking many good faith measures so I am glady working with them to fix the problem. From what I've been told, their management has changed recently (within the last two years) and many of these problems were inherited from the previous owner.

 

[cdeakle]

Sounds like things are shaping up for the better. Only time will tell though, they could just try to do enough to keep you quiet or maybe they are actually trying to do the right thing.

Please keep us updated sir Len....