{"id":7078,"date":"2013-10-10T08:16:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=7078"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:58:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:58:02","slug":"like-a-bad-rash-craig-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/like-a-bad-rash-craig-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Bad Rash, Craig Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have been following along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/the-sordid-tale-of-phenocal-synetgy-llc-and-some-guy-named-craig-schwartz\/\">our story of Craig Schwartz<\/a> (representing Synetgy LLC) and his ham-handed attempts to have our review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/phenocal-fat-burner-review.html\">Phenocal<\/a> pulled from the site will be interested to know that Craig was back blustering to our web host again, sending this note yesterday (Oct 9, 2013)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The page http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/phenocal-fat-burner-review.html is made live again. Please remove the material in question at earliest.\u00a0To avoid confusion. <em>[sic]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What &#8220;confusion&#8221; do you speak of, Craig?<\/p>\n<p>The only person who seems to be confused about this is YOU.<\/p>\n<p>But just for fun, let&#8217;s go back to your initial complaint, sent on September 5, where you wrote our hosting company alleging&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I do have very well understanding of online business. The website is trying to promote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnthefat.com\/index_aff.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.burnthefat.com\/index_aff.html<\/a> by using Phenocal&#8217;s online brand reputation.\u00a0Please review the whole website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com<\/a> once and remove the material in question at earliest to avoid further legal action and penalties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Consider&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom Venuto&#8217;s &#8220;Burn the Fat&#8221; is not a competing product. It&#8217;s a book &#8211; not a bottle of pills.<\/li>\n<li>It is represented by a small,\u00a0generic 125 x 125 ad that sits way down in the sidebar on the left on <em>all<\/em> the reviews on this site&#8230; it is not unique to the Phenocal review.<\/li>\n<li>The ad itself does not link to Tom Venuto&#8217;s sales page, but <strong>to our review of the product<\/strong>. If we really were trying to use Phenocal&#8217;s &#8220;online brand reputation&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2007\/11\/27\/Internet_Weight-Loss_Hucksters__Swiped_Rival_s_Photos,_Couple_Says.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what online reputation<\/a>?) , wouldn&#8217;t we link directly to the sales site? Wouldn&#8217;t we preface it with something along the lines of, &#8220;You don&#8217;t need Phenocal to lose fat and get the body of your dreams. Click here for information on Tom Venuto&#8217;s popular &#8220;Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle&#8221; program&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>It is not against the copyright or trademark law to feature advertising or featured products on pages that contain editorial content.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s hard to take Craig&#8217;s &#8220;legal eagle&#8221; approach too seriously when he communicates in garbled sentences, like: &#8220;I do have very well understanding of online business.&#8221; Very professional!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this notwithstanding, we decided to throw Craig a bone. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, Elissa tweaked the UltimateFatBurner.com style sheet, so the offending &#8220;ad&#8221; no longer appears on any Phenocal-related pages, including this one (these pages are cached, so it may take a couple of hours before the ads stop appearing on all pages).<\/p>\n<p>Will that make him happy? Or will there be something else to complain about?<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more details!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have been following along with our story of Craig Schwartz (representing Synetgy LLC) and his ham-handed attempts to have our review of Phenocal pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9331,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions\/9331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}