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Please do!

Oh and you could always do what they did on ukbf about that marketing company where they kept repeating the name of the company in every post so that when you googled their name page 1 was about full of ukbf posts of this mega thread about how this company were behaving.

Handy having your own forum innit?!!

Sorry but if that was coca cola's logo and his logo it would perhaps make more sense to him how much he is infringing. He clearly does not understand infringing a trademark means he is confusing the customer. They are very alike enough to confuse, which is one main reason it was noticed in the first place! He must think that for a logo to infringe trademark it must have to be an exact or almost exact replica.

He's given you his reply so now ball's in your court. Make sure you have a screengrab of th info he has copied; use
Wayback as proof of your page being indexed before his with said content, and chuck that to his hosting provider. That's what I did and they accepted it and informed me they had given the other guy X days to remove it or else they would suspend>cancel his hosting account.

I have had a dialogue via PM with the OP about the site. I think so far as I can tell from what little I know about it, it's a hosted template site perhaps provided by the distributors of the product which is why it then goes through to the other site. I guess this is so that the purchases and commissions for the OP can be tracked maybe? Can't say without knowing more about what exactly the score is with this website as the OP didn't expand.

So it would help if the OP could explain why do they have to leave your website and go to this other site to order the products? Are you tied to this process? Does that mean you can't have your own ecommerce store and take orders direct?

It is annoying and even maddening when folk copy your site and flattering it is, but that doesn't really make you feel better.

What's probably happened here is someone has seen your website and gone to a developer and told them they 'want a site like this' and they've just copied it per say.

I cant see your original home page as my diverts straight to the SY page but im assuming it's a like-for-like version?

Anyway that fact it is trading in the UK even though operated form the UK should mean (I think) that your trademark is protected but do you have the money to take it to court and fight it anyway?

I would send them a cease and desist for starters and take it from there. Also contact their hosts and demand they get them to remove it. That's what I did and it worked. I also found they didn't comply with Nominet on the domain reg and reported them there too. I did this after the guy ignored my direct request so give them at least one chance to comply.

PS Im seeing this info for the domain whois:

Technical Contact:
Customer Registrations
United Communications Limited (
Source: source.domaintools.com)
+44.08456432011
Fax: +44.02089298096
c/o United Communications Limited
PO Box 937
Hemel Hempstead, HP1

Name Servers:
ns1.ventura.unitedhosting.co.uk
ns2.ventura.unitedhosting.co.uk

Looks British to me so you're in with a chance. Get on to Trading Standards as well maybe?

I would agree with Steve about those sites he listed.

You would go crazy trying to please everyone's personal design taste but what I try to tell customers is that only the target market should be considered here, not everyone giving their 2 cents. Those 30 people should be your customers or potential customers (if possible) and not just anyone. However and I guess it's only natural, a customer will still want to go with something that ultimately, they like. Only time will tell if it works for you.

However when producing a website for review, i'd also suggest giving an overview in your own words, of your business, what you offer, what makes you different, and what you want to achieve with the website, and who your target market is ie (ie socio economics, demographics, style, trends, etc) only then can anyone truly know if your website is on track to reach out to that target market.

Has a designer done the mocks for you or have you done them?

This was the response I got:

Out of Yahoo quota for today. Total 50,000 queries executed already.


Copyright 2007


so not perfect.

I prefer No. 3 and would do something with the menu around the blue/green colour. Maybe not the menu in full colour but white background and coloured font so it blends.

I think the horizontal menu being in the same colour scheme as the logo is too much. I dont like the colour at all as I don't think it's akin/appropriate to IT in any way either. Colour psychology is a play on colours with what the mind perceives by association.

I dont like the border around it. It boxes it in thus makes the box content look crammed in, and you wouldnt normally use a full stop at the end of the text in. In comparison, totally lacks impact for me. I thinik ifyou are paying to brand up scooters and all your other marketing materials i'd think carefully on this. Have you paid someone to design this for you?