Fighting Over a Blog Logo?
I just woke up and I did what I normally do. Check my emails, update my websites and read my morning dosage of blog updates. Apparently for today, there’s a drama over two bloggers, namely Tyler Cruz and the Cow.
It started when Tyler Cruz posted on his blog about his new logo and, which is according to the cow, misleading his readers with the price. I love the new logo design, but paying $500? Not cool.
Tyler Cruz dot Com seems to have found the same logo/mascot designer as we used for our header, Sosfactory dot Com, but it looks like he’s trying to pull a cheap trick to con his readers!
He’s claiming that that mascot of his was “just” $500 and that anyone that wants a “cheap” mascot like that too, needs to contact him. What a load of cow-crap! Those logo’s run for a couple of hundred dollars less! Not only does it look like he is trying to con his readers by making them pay more and pocket the difference, he’s also is not supporting the awesome Sosfactory guys that did his logo design this way. Not cool Tyler.
Personally, I’d take the cows side because I hate it when somebody sells me an expensive product which I could have gotten with a cheaper price. 
What do you think?
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Have you bought a MillionEuroWiki page? I hope not…
expensive product sold by the Cow and worth nothing…
No, I haven’t. And I don’t plan to. I don’t understand what’s with all the hype about it. Well, actually, that’s what it’s all about - Hype.
But you have to hand it to the cow, he’s a very good marketer.
(This has nothing to do with my views posted on both Tyler’s and Cow’s sites about the mascot at all - I sided with neither both before or after the argument: I played merely played devil’s advocate against Cow and then in light of Tyler’s admission, liked neither his profiteering nor Cow’s pre-judging.)
But - unbiasedly - Cow is NOT a good marketer: he simply sees a good idea and copies it nearly pixel for pixel, word for word, concept for concept. In any other industry that is copyright violation - imagine if there was a drink called Pepsa with the same blue and red logo, typeface and taste as Pepsi. They’d be sued to hell. Cow is just lucky he works in the only industry where normal copyright law doesn’t properly apply yet.
He has never had a good original idea and only markets copied ideas in the exact same way as the entrepreneurs he copied.
Andy, you drive a very good argument. I agree that the Cow does indeed copy ideas but he does improve on it and adds he’s own style. I also agree that the Cow is indeed lucky, very lucky to have hit an instantaneous fame because of his parody blog of the beef himself, John Chow. When I said the cow was a good marketer, I was referring to his back door gift to Chow’s daughter which got a front page from Chow and loads of exposure.
Anyway, I admire the Cow’s humorous style and hope the best for his MEW project. But you won’t see my buying from it though.
I think that these “money bloggers” are calling each others scams out merely to gain credibility and trust from readers…. so they can turn round and SCAM THEM THEMSELVES.
It was a dick move and I’m glad someone aired him out for it.