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eingedi

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Word on eddyflower.com?
« on: August 05, 2010, 09:32:33 AM »
I've been having intermittent problems accessing eddyflower for the last week or two, and now it's just a 404. Anyone know what's up with the site?


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Re: Word on eddyflower.com?
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2010, 10:03:00 AM »
Maybe he finally got what he deserved?

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Re: Word on eddyflower.com?
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2010, 01:55:44 PM »
Saw this on the Arkie site.

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from posts on other msg boards I have seen, it is true

Eddy Flower is aware that it has been hacked and is working on a solution.

Bottom line, Do not use eddy flower unless you want to send emails to all your address book entries

Another good reason not to use eddyflower.com

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Re: Word on eddyflower.com?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2010, 06:28:22 PM »
Another good reason not to use eddyflower.com

Just curious, did eddyflower.com kick your dog or something?

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Re: Word on eddyflower.com?
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2010, 08:57:33 PM »
Womack had a nice long post on it and I cant find it.

Here is a thread with something about it.

http://memphiswhitewater.com/forum/index.php/topic,2973.0.html

He also stole all the content for his website from other sources, and from what I remember it was word for word.  Did not even try to hide it.
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Re: Word on eddyflower.com?
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2010, 11:51:58 AM »
me and Sam had to threaten a law suit over copyright infringement when he stole some of our photos for promotional material without permission... he made us prove they were our photos and he had only done a half @$$ job editing the photos to try to make them unrecognizable ... barely editing off the stickers from my boat... but you could still see the outlines.

He stole code directly from AW and formats directly from TVF for the vertical challenge and didn't even edit the material (if you're going to plagiarize at least put in the effort to change a few words) when he first got started... then spammed up the boards with all HIS hard work and HIS great site, none of which was original work.

THEN he went to TVF's sponsors and told them that HE was "that vertical feet competition" to weasel support away from TVF...  he actually posed as TVF without saying he was TVF exactly, literally stealing sponsorship through misrepresentation.

the list goes on and I will NEVER support eddyflower.com for these reasons and for a long history of issues....  when he stole and promoted our photo he rendered it un-sellable to magazines because they had all seen it and all want exclusives.... we lost money due to eddyflower...

bottom line - eddyflower has a lot of well deserved enemies and sounds like they got a tiny taste of what they deserve.

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Re: Word on eddyflower.com?
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2010, 01:38:27 PM »
All right, I gotcha. I've only ever gone to the site to look at boat info. I don't know anything else about that site.

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Re: Word on eddyflower.com?
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2010, 06:48:09 PM »
yikes! I had no knowledge of any of that, either. I just found it a really useful and quick place to research and compare boats.
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Re: Word on eddyflower.com?
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2010, 08:25:43 PM »
You should go to playak to get your boat info since that is where all the info that eddyflower put on his site came from.
http://playak.com/
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Re: Word on eddyflower.com?
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2010, 05:27:04 PM »
not to mention that I asked him a number of times to not post on memphiswhitewater.com unless he was going to actually participate in discussions and trip. The I did not appreciate spamming us.

I got to remind him of that a number of times and often got very snippy remarks back or single posts that said "hey i am posting other than a spam message so I can spam you"

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Re: Word on eddyflower.com?
« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2010, 10:02:02 AM »
Isn't an eddy flower a poser anyway?