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There has been so much infighting here the past few days I really hesitate to start another scuffle, but I just can't bring myself to ignore this. There are many domain business people on this forum who make a significant amount of money by promoting their enterprises here. No problem so far....the ability to get the word about our businesses out to the net's largest domain community is one of the main reasons we are here. However, I am apalled at the lack of common business courtesy I have seen in a few rare cases. Are there really adult business people who don't understand how incredibly obnoxious it is to try to directly undercut your host on their own venue?
Last week Greg announced that $39 Snaps would be among the perks offered to his members. Today, one of those members told people he would give them the same thing if they went to his site and became a member. Knock Knock. Is anyone with any business ethics home? Nothing wrong with posting your site address, as most of us do, but to try to blatantly steal customers for a specific product from the venue that is giving you the free advertising platform to begin with is really lame. In many ways it is worse than spam. At least with Spam you are just wasting someone's time and bandwidth. By doing this kind of thing you are actually trying to steal money from your host as well.
Even worse, despite deriving the advertising benefits from DNF, this particular poster has not even taken a membership on the site. Personally, I would not make that kind of a post, even after paying a $50 membership fee, but at least it would be a little less distasteful if you were giving something back. I am talking strictly about business people now, not the casual posters who never want to pay (I've already made my argument there and don't care to revisit it). I would just say, if you are going to go that far over the line to grab business, at least have the decency to support the forum at the same time.
This is where they will launch their "I already paid with my great posts" speech. Maybe someone else will buy that, but I don't. I think I have the 3rd largest number of posts on this board (many of dubious quality to be sure), but I have easily been repaid for my posts via the knowledge learned from other posters. I think that is true of everyone. However, the benefits I have gotten for my various businesses is so far beyond the value of my posts it's ridiculous. That is why I supported paying a fee, at least for business people, long before Greg even started thinking about one. I felt guilty about how lopsided the value equation was in my favor.
In another case, you have a guy, obviously not a serious business person, who has decided to stick the name of a competing forum in his signature here. I guess he thinks he is making some kind of "political" statement. In fact, the only statement being made is "I'm a Guy You Will Never Want to Do Business With". What are people thinking with this kind of idiocy? Anyhow, that's the end of my rant. I've spent too much time on this and similar topics so I'm moving on...however, feel free to discuss among yourselves.
Last week Greg announced that $39 Snaps would be among the perks offered to his members. Today, one of those members told people he would give them the same thing if they went to his site and became a member. Knock Knock. Is anyone with any business ethics home? Nothing wrong with posting your site address, as most of us do, but to try to blatantly steal customers for a specific product from the venue that is giving you the free advertising platform to begin with is really lame. In many ways it is worse than spam. At least with Spam you are just wasting someone's time and bandwidth. By doing this kind of thing you are actually trying to steal money from your host as well.
Even worse, despite deriving the advertising benefits from DNF, this particular poster has not even taken a membership on the site. Personally, I would not make that kind of a post, even after paying a $50 membership fee, but at least it would be a little less distasteful if you were giving something back. I am talking strictly about business people now, not the casual posters who never want to pay (I've already made my argument there and don't care to revisit it). I would just say, if you are going to go that far over the line to grab business, at least have the decency to support the forum at the same time.
This is where they will launch their "I already paid with my great posts" speech. Maybe someone else will buy that, but I don't. I think I have the 3rd largest number of posts on this board (many of dubious quality to be sure), but I have easily been repaid for my posts via the knowledge learned from other posters. I think that is true of everyone. However, the benefits I have gotten for my various businesses is so far beyond the value of my posts it's ridiculous. That is why I supported paying a fee, at least for business people, long before Greg even started thinking about one. I felt guilty about how lopsided the value equation was in my favor.
In another case, you have a guy, obviously not a serious business person, who has decided to stick the name of a competing forum in his signature here. I guess he thinks he is making some kind of "political" statement. In fact, the only statement being made is "I'm a Guy You Will Never Want to Do Business With". What are people thinking with this kind of idiocy? Anyhow, that's the end of my rant. I've spent too much time on this and similar topics so I'm moving on...however, feel free to discuss among yourselves.
