- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 1 and 9 users
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
So many people these days try to circumvent the themeforest purchase verification methods and steal support …
GPL and “free internet” is one thing.
Cheating about having purchased themes and then contacting authors for theme support is just criminal.
- Italy
- Exclusive Author
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Referred between 1 and 9 users
+1
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Item was Featured
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- Referred between 200 and 499 users
- Exclusive Author
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Author had a Free File of the Month
Actually it happend for me maybe 5 times during last two years, so maybe they are so good at it, or maybe I’m not carefull enough 
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
They usually ask
I would buy your theme if you tell me how to …I have noticed another trend, people buy theme only if they need support: http://imm.io/pgVV
Anyway, in my country if some game, movie or software is available on some sharing site then lawyers ask sharing site for IP logs and they send a bill (about 1000 euro) to each person who downloaded pirated good. If you won’t pay then you will be issued.
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Germany
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Interviewed on the Envato Notes blog
- Item was Featured
KarmaThemes said
So many people these days try to circumvent the themeforest purchase verification methods and steal support …GPL and “free internet” is one thing.
Cheating about having purchased themes and then contacting authors for theme support is just criminal.
How exactly? I mean I always ask users to confirm their purchase by sending me an email via my profile page’s form.
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Item was Featured
- Sold between 250 000 and 1 000 000 dollars
- United States
I thought sending an email from my profile is a guaranteed way to get verification. Well, even if it’s not 100%, i’m sure it’s good enough in general.
That said, I personally don’t really care if someone gets a theme from me for free… it’s gonna happen no matter what, and there’s nothing I can do about it. Just as long as not even 1 second of my time is taken up with support.
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Austria
- Item was Featured
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Exclusive Author
- Referred between 100 and 199 users
Don’t worry, there is another trend going on: Building botnets by utilizing [irony] very professional, competent and obviously very successful [/irony] web-designers, aka ‘honey-potted’ WordPress themes.
Some people need to get hacked, banned by their hosting provider and fired from their web-design projects, in order to realize that sharing sites do not exist for the sake of charity. In the end the question remains, was it worth those lousy 35 dollars?
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