Miscellaneous Ramblings – 9/30/2007

Why are you giving the cheat con artist .... free publicity. A link from your post is worth thousands of hits ..... I only dream of it :(

I guess The Prize Blog loves you so much

Nate, I currently run a Warrior Special Offer where you can get MGP for $17 :
http://MarketingGraphicsPro.com/wso2/
:smile:

It's legit, as I'm the original creator of the product. :wink:

[John, if you think my comment is not appropriate, just delete it.]

Didier

Nate, I currently run a Warrior Special Offer where you can get MGP for $17 :
http://MarketingGraphicsPro.com/wso2/
:smile:

[John, if you think my comment is not appropriate, just delete it.]

Didier

Anyways... after all of this. Where do I really go to buy the product? Can I get it LEGALLY for $17? It looks good (unless someone jumps in here and warns me not to buy it.) I'd appreciate any response, thanks.

It is apparent that Anthony did this purposefully, but what is the real benefit he will reap from this? Fame? Traffic? Or what?

1- The whole article at
http://bloggingdosh.com/2007/10/01/dealdotcom-is-a...
has just been deleted !

2- What is "not clear" is the following :

- marketinggraphicspro.us (Anthony Feint domain name - see Whois data above) has this text at the top :
"From : The Desks of Didier Faucher and Jack Sinclair"

- Jack Sinclair purchased a reseller license from me. I have his name in my customers list.

- Jack Sinclair runs marketingraphicspro.com (1 G - my site, the official site of the product is marketinggraphicspro.com).

- I don't have Anthony Feint in my customers list.

- marketinggraphics.us (Anthony Feint site) has the following text at the very bottom :
"Privacy Policy". This text is linked to... http://www.marketingraphicspro.com/privacy_stateme...
which is Jack Sinclair domain name !!!

If Anthony modified the link when you read this, here's the Google cache page :
http://209.85.135.104/search?hl=fr&q=cache%3Am...

So for me there are 2 explanations :

* Anthony Feint & Jack Sinclair are "friends", and Jack gave away for free the product, the reseller material, and a reseller license to Anthony, which is not allowed.

* Anthony Feint purchased a Personal License from an authorized reseller, and ROBBED the reseller sales site from Jack Sinclair.
In this case this is absolutely scandalous ! Especially when you consider Anthony :
- Still sell my product.
- Called DealDotCom a rip off and made the buzz about that !

I can't see another hypothesis.
Maybe I'm wrong. Please correct my mistake if I make one...

Didier

I just posted the Whois data on Anthony Feint blog at
http://bloggingdosh.com/2007/10/01/dealdotcom-is-a...

and Anthony Feint DELETED them !!!

Who's the bad apple ? DealDotCom or Anthony Feint bloggingdosh.com ???

Tell us, Anthony...

Didier

[Well... in fact my "previous comment" was not posted... :???: ]

Anyway, what is important here is Anthony Feint (bloggingdosh.com) tell the world DDC is a scam BUT he registered marketinggraphicspro.us HIMSELF !

WHO is the scam, Anthony ???

Didier

[John, I made a little mistake on my previous comment. Please correct it. Thanks.]

marketinggraphicspro.us :
Administrative Contact:
Media, Flask info@flimble.com
MyEzy Web Services
1 May Maxwell Crescent
Gilmore
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2905
Australia

flimble.com :
Administrative Contact:
Anthony Feint (anthony_rulz64@hotmail.com)
+61.0438227803
Fax: +61.0000000000
1 May Maxwell
Canberra, 2905
AU

bloggingdosh.com :
Administrative Contact:
Enterprises, A.Feint anthony_rulz64@hotmail.com
MyEzy Web Services
1 May Maxwell Crescent
Gilmore
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2905
Australia

well, about an hour ago I paid $7.00 from the website mentioned above. Haven't received the download link yet, but think that I got a pretty good deal. I will blog about it when I get it.

I wonder how much Chow is making on these DealDotCom Deals???

Man, stealing your avatar is a low blow. Evil, to say the least.

If you are looking for a DDC widget that runs without wordpress or php you might have a look at this:

http://trafficbandit.blogspot.com/2007/09/dealdotc...

I hope you like it,
trafficbandit

You may want to get your facts together before you jump in the bandwagon.

1. This was not the deal of the day for two days.. only Sunday. The product is a resell product that the license says must only sell for no less then $17. Half way through the day we contacted the creator of the product and he gave us permission to sell it for $7 less.

2. The person selling for only $7 does not have permission or a license to do so. This is from the product owner himself...

No I never gave the permission to anybody to sell
for less than $17. Never. Some asked me, and I said
no. The only exception is DDC.

I spent a lot of time tracking resellers who sold the
product for less, and convinced all who didn't play
by the rules to sell for at least $17.

For your information, MGP.us was selling the product
for $17 until ??? maybe yesterday (after they see the
DDC deal ?)

3. The deal the day prior was actually a niche research product.

4. We never said we are always the best deal. Just like woot.com, there very well may be places that sell for less but I guarantee 90% of the time that will not be the case.

I'm the creator of Marketing Graphics Pro. I have sold reseller licenses for this product. I asked resellers not to sell for less than $17 (I sell the product myself for $37). What can I do and what can DealDotCom do if some resellers decide to sell it for less ? Nothing !
Didier

What a rip off, the website is selling for only $7. Thank goodness I didnt buy it at $10.

If anyone would like to read my personal blog post about this you can find it HERE.
Thanks everybody!

avatar is removed..hehe

the prize is pretty tempting but it is in US.....flight will be more expensive compare to the prize won

Aaron cook is dirty but very smart trick!!! This can be called "evil"!!! :evil:

Thanks so much for the kind mention John! I'm just glad I came across it and was able to let you know it was being used in such a manner. :smile:

Hopefully they'll be "smart" and stop using your photo immediately. Like I said, it's not only a form of copyright infringement - it's also just plain LAME!

Shine on,
Aaron

Thanks for the link back to the contest! This promotion will even be better this week, with even better chances of winning!

copyright images and contents should never be used without the permission of the other party..its ethics. :wink:

I think the guy erased it already...

LOL at the $7 price of the dealdotcom item for the day. Anyway, its cool to see the prize blog apologize for his stunt. Plus getting the exposure and publicity for his blog. :mrgreen:

I noticed the avatar issue about a week ago on my blog. I even had two John Chow avatars in my MyBlogLog widget for awhile (thanks for stopping by) and thought you must have noticed it then because he was there a while before you.

Anyway, at least he apologized for it and admitted he was wrong. Other, less decent, people would have made a big fuss about it and tried to justify themselves.

I don't know the guy, but get off your high horse John.

The guy was creatively marketing himself, I'm sure he meant no harm by it. I'm sure a private e-mail to him letting him know it's NOT okay and he would've removed it straight away.

If somebody used my image, I'd be flattered. Try not taking life so seriously.

now thats a slick move by the prize blog. lol. dirty, but slick.

The same package that DealDotCom is offering can be purchased at www.marketinggraphicspro.us for $7. Ha! The entire concept is such a rip off and I thought they were meant to be giving you a good deal!!!

Wow how can you not expect to be caught when doing something like that? I wonder if he's using the old train of thought that any publicity is good publicity. Considering so much in blogs depends on good will and community I'm not sure that really applies in the blogging realm.

Well, at least prize blog got mentioned once. They are probably gonna get some traffic from it, and improve their technorati ranking.

Just signed up today to your feeds, and first thank you for this informative blog.
The graphics package looks as a bargain and is a must for every webmaster

Great job, Aaron ! :grin:

Hey, I wanted to apologize to anybody who was "deceived." My intention really was not to impersonate John Chow, but I can easily see how that's how it looks. I did it randomly and I just want to say how sorry I am, not just to John, but all the bloggers who were insulted by that pretty dumb thing I did. Hope you can understand, thanks.

Brian Aldrich