We here at Wrestling Past And Present have reported several instances of staff at both Dave Meltzer's WON/F4W and Wrestlinginc openly and blatantly (even providing evidence which shows how 'smart' they're not) stealing stories from PWInsider's "Elite" paid subscription section.
Here's the list of staff members who were busted doing this. Joseph Currier (who was caught two days in a row), Rosanne Raphael and Ian Carey who work for WON/F4W, and Daisy Ruth (who's been caught doing this several times), Max Everett, Samantha Schipman, Julien D'Alessandro, Eric Mutter and Ella jay who are staff at Wrestlinginc.
ALL of these people have been caught stealing some sort of content from the PWInsider "Elite" PAID SUBSCRIBER section, and posted them on the sites they work for, and got paid for it. Basically Meltzer and the powers that be at Wrestlinginc PAID these people for using material they openly stole from that Elite section.
I tried contacting Melzer and Wrestlinginc several times, even called them out on X/Twitter and no answer, comment or reply to these stories we did. Totally ignoring that they in fact paid their staff that posted stories they stole from somewhere else.
Even though I and PWInsider owner Dave Scherer have had our differences (which goes back when we were both involved with Evan Ginzburg's Wrestling Then And Now monthly (by mail only) newsletter back in the 90's, I contacted Scherer to explain to him he he had one serious problem, and actually asked him (and Mike Johnson, whose stories are the ones being stolen) are they really trying to do something about it?
While Mike Johnson never answered back, Dave Scherer, who often claims he "runs PWInsider like a business" did reply. Did he acknowledge there's an problem? Did he explain how bad the situation is and admit that whatever 'security measures' he has in place on his site simply aren't working? Did he even mention how or what measures they ARE taking to try and stop this from continuing?
Nope... Zero, zip and nada thing about his site or the problems with WON/F4W and Wrestlinginc stealing from it on an almost daily basis. Mr. "runs PWInsider like a business" totally deflected (which i kinda knew he was going to do as that's his m.o. when something makes him look bad, he deflects and tries to change the subject) from it and preferred to try and sling insults at me about things in my past that happened, FOURTEEN YEARS AGO.
That's what Mr. 'claims to have a degree in business' did. So when someone who writes for a site wants to get comments on a story, and contacts the person who 'could' and is 'capable' of giving an honest answer and assessment of the situation, Instead? Gives me this.
For someone who claims to run his site 'like a business' you see any professional 'businessman' representation there? Of course not because he really doesn't have that in him. But, TTHHIISSS is the face of PWInsider, and TTHHISSS is how he 'represents the business' he owns.
Nothing like totally ignoring and deflecting from what obviously a blind man can see.
If I ever see him or Mike Johnson whining, crying and bitching about content beibg stolen from them, I'm sure going to call em on it, because the impression I and some others have is, Scherer isn't really trying to do anything. OORR, he just doesn't want to do anything.
We here at WP&P will continue to report the stealing that sites like WON/F4W and Wrestlinginc do, so the more they steal, the more we'll expose them for the lazy fucks they are who can't get their own content like we here at WP&P do every single day. Nice to know they we're seemingly, the ONLY wrestling news site that doesn't have to steal from a paywall like the other so called 'major news sites' have been caught doing.
As for Mr. Scherer, I tried to have an honest serious conversation with him about this and you see what I got instead. Which I guess would him living up to what ism my absolute favorite quote from Scherer himself.
At least Mr. Scherer has doubled down and has insisted on living that quote, eh?
4 comments:
WOW, REALLY? That's how Scherer responded? Damn he really doesn't want to admit his site's flawed as fuck, does he. At least you tried to contact him for comments on the situation. He comes off like an idiot, where did he major in business? No real business owner would act like that in the real world.
Aren't you like twelve years sober or something? The only thing Dave Scherer does is try to slam you on your past? What a pathetic little man. He'd rather try and slam you on your past than address the situation happening to his "business". What an absolute moron.
I didn't post it all, just the parts that mattered most concerning the stealing. We went back and forth a couple of times and it was basically him dodging and deflecting the issue.
Where did he major in business? probably the University of Fantasy Island the way he runs PWInsider 'like a business'.
I am and yes. and yes, he is a moron, a walking breathing definition of a moron which is why I love posting his own quote from Twitter/X where he says "living life as a moron could be a good thing". The man truly lives it, every single day. :).
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