Hello, this situations really not happening to me on a regular basis (and that's good) so I don't really know what auction to do even if we have the source file. And look at this: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1478173 At this thread the user (that stole a design in another contest too), advertising the same site, demon_fox, the OP request a logo for. Are those guys work together in the industry of stealing designers logos? We can use some help from the mods, or someone who have some knowledge with this kind of things.
You should kindly ask the site´s hoster to take the site offline until you´ve been fully paid. An Internic search produces this result: http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=buytwitters.com&type=domain Just shoot an email stating your case with a link to this thread.
If he didn't pay you. Contact the site owner and tell them that the logo they are using are yours and they have no right to use it since it was not paid. You show them this thread for evidence. herenow thanks for the information it will help also.
oh this is great, no he didn't pay me or even contacted me for the logo and I just discovered just now that he is using my logo too, I'll do the appropriated actions and won't let him continue using my logo, I'll keep you updated, thanks guys....
Look guys...it doesn't take a genius to figure this out. Protect your work. There is a reason why designers use a watermark. People on this forum don't care about you, but about themselves. There are very few people you can trust. From this you should learn one thing only... never display the logo without a watermark... and do not ever send .psd files to the client before they have agreed that you have won. Then send your paypal email address to them... in the end if someone gives you a bullshit line like they have been scammed before... then all you do is say, 'sorry that doesn't work for me since I wilingly entered your contest and my logo is up for display so you can make up your own mind. If you don't want it, then thank you and good bye.' Do not be misled by thinking someone will pay you afterwards. Do I feel pity towards this... no. Anyone can take these logos you submit in this thread and then just cut it to size and use it. The watermark is at the bottom and there is nothing preventing someone from taking it and using it. By having a watermark it will make it harder for someone to use it. They would have to edit out the watermark and that would dissuade most people from doing it.
Hi guys, just wanted to share that a guy name marcolav who is now the new owner of buytwitters.com was willing to clear the name of buytwitters.com and has contacted me and informed me that he was sincerely willing to compensate my logo, I didn't ask for more other than the supposedly price for this contest, payment has been received, thanks marcolav, hope demon fox was permanently banned. this thread is now closed. cheers!