This thread is for disclosing take-down requests from merchants and related discussions. We at OzBargain often receive requests from merchants to remove pages and deals on this website. Sometimes the requests can be reasonable but sometimes not. The moderators will use this thread to post requests from merchants + our actions.
For merchants / store representatives:
Zinus Mattress Sale from $88 King Single + Delivery ($0 to Most Metros) @ Zinus via Marketplace
Marketplace provider does not want to be associated or named in posts by Zinus Marketing. Takedown request jointly issued by Zinus and marketplace provider.
Zinus and marketplace provider were fully informed of, and they agreed to the consequence of us accepting a takedown notice. Post removed and Zinus Marketplace store is permanently banned.
Yes, but that was Zinus direct, this post was a Bunnings Marketplace post (by Zinus), so the complaint must be from Bunnings, the "Marketplace provider".
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:…
Maybe check my link again…
Property Development Experience with Caifu Property
Received Letter of Demand from lawyers representing Caifu Property yesterday afternoon.
Page unpublished, as
Received a registered mail from Avocate au Barreau de Paris representing MOMENT, stating that
a user of the Portal has violated these terms of use by publishing the URL for access to the Portal on your site
They claimed that page is unlawful, and requested it to be removed.
We have changed the URL of the deal to link directly to the Nice airport's website.
Just curious as to how were a bunch of French lawyers able to locate this post on an Au bargain site??
Just a bunch of keywords?
They were probably tracking the URL to see who is directing to the portal and large hits from ozbargain haha
tracking the URL to see who is directing to the portal
See, this is the kind of big brain stuff that I know nothing about.
@Gervais fanboy: ozb tracks it too
November 2024 Transparency Report
Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)
@Gervais fanboy: and here it is!
Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)
Whirlpool(whirlpool.net.au) - 62,186
Reddit(reddit.com) 67,765
Facebook(facebook.com) - 62,293
Oursteps(oursteps.com.au) - 19,534
Instagram(instagram.com) - 12,214
Twitter/X has become unusable due to API limitations.
@Gervais fanboy: You can find this information out via your browser too.
More Tools > Developer Tools > Network > Click on the file (usually at the very top) > Under Request Headers, look for Referer: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/
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Alltrails+ 1 Year Subscription $17.99 (Was $35.99) @ Alltrails
Request
Alltrails sent us a DMCA claiming "copyright infringement". Also received an IP Rights Infringement Notice from Alltrails via Red Points claiming "the following content is infringing upon their valid intellectual property rights". However so far only an URL is provided — no exact violation is mentioned.
Action
I've sent back an email requesting for more information, and will update here if there's any followup. Meanwhile, I am replacing the Alltrails store image with our default "Removed due to copyright issues" image just in case.