Herman Melville said: “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

Annoyed.

Very, very, very annoyed.

I just found out that another fashion review blog has ripped off my advertising scheme! >:(

From the style of my advertisements for my advertising services, to the template and format of the advertising arrangement blog entry, to the EXACT PHRASES I used (SOMETIMES EVEN EXACT SENTENCES, WORD FOR WORD), right down to the FAQs that I thought carefully about and considered the scenarios for (which had never appeared on other local review blogs before), and the RATES! Except the reviewer lowered it very precisely by a few cents for some categories, and increased it by a few ringgit for others.

I mean, I don't care if other review blogs are putting up advertising spaces as well, it's none of my business - but to so BLATANTLY COPY my posted arrangement, that's absolute bull - it reeks of unoriginality and a pathetic lack of creativity!

The only difference between our advertising arrangements now is that her terms & conditions are stricter - no refunds allowed under any circumstances, and a whole LOT more advertising spaces on the blog. If all the ad spaces are taken up on *that* blog, there would be over 20 ads. Quite a lot, which means less attention for the advertisers - but a lot more cash for the reviewer, too!

Urgh. I am disgusted at the reviewer. Her review blog is so much more established than mine, having been built a long, long time ago. And her readership is, of course, much, much bigger as well. So why do this? Why rip off the effort of an infant review blog?

Annoyed.

Very, very, very annoyed.

Oh well. I know I'll get over it quickly enough, because it isn't a big deal.
Just wanted to blog it here to remind myself of reality.