My ad was cloned - an rare happy ending

[Rick Bassett]

This has probably happened to many of us, my advertising text for a property was cloned nearly word-for-word by a local investor in one of his ads for a rental property.   

Usually, we can't do anything about it except rattle a saber as recourse is too costly.

But in this case, the offending party happened to be a college professor from a local university, and plagiarism in publishing is a very big (and possibly careering ending) deal. After pointing that out to him and implying that I would report him to his university the text copy was gone in minutes.....

[Theresa Harris]

If someone copied the text of the ad and used it for their own rental, I wouldn't care.  If they took my ad and tried to start a scam by pretending the property was theirs, that is another story.