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I have actually been involved behind the scenes a little for some time, helping Vlad clean up some of the mess that "whoever" (yet to be proven) created to defame him.
Along those lines, it is extremely important if you can provide Vlad with the full header information of the emails your receive.
They are important clues and evidence.
Yeah I've read about these guys. I guess they missed the common sense part of running a business: "Don't piss people off".
Way to take a stand. I haven't received anything from eperks oh crap I mean ejerks, but I have from countless others. It seems like it is never ending with the opt-outs and they never work.
Jay I would love to know if you hear anything back from the FTC. Have wondered if they actually do anything with the complaints or if it's all bs.
@Shailesh - yup, seems like Business 101.
@Jason - usually I avoid unsubscribe buttons because many report all that does is verify the spammers have a valid email address. But I'm just sick of these things clogging up my in-box. I've gotten FOUR from eJerks alone TODAY.
@Ken - I doubt it will do any good. But it made me feel better. Maybe the FTC could slap a big ol fine on ePerks and funnel the money over to someone in the Dept of Energy who could do something about $4/gal gasoline....
The majority of this post is copy/paste. It took less than 10 minutes to write.
Yes, I could have deleted the emails faster than that.
But that's really neither here nor there.
It's not so much about me getting spam as it is about what ePerks is doing to Vlad. If you are a blogger in any sense, or a fan of the Constitution, it should concern you.
Did you follow any of the links to see what they are trying to pull? If not, you might want to. It's disturbing, and more people need to hear about it. I now know for a fact at least one person reading this has never heard of ePerks. I suspect there are more....
It's also about how not to market, and how to alienate clients and potential clients -- both valuable lessons (I think) for any agents or business people that happen to stop by.
We can all learn something from the study of human behavior. Regardless of if you are here as an agent, a "consumer" or just passing idle time absorbed in the scintillating writing, (I'm *kidding*) take a moment to reflect on what ePerks is doing to themselves. Surely we can all apply some of this to our own lives.
Personally, I find I can often learn as much, if not more from hearing about how not to act. This is a classic case of what not to do....
Second, is that "your" Jayson who is the author of the email.
And lastly, why is it that both real estate consumers and real estate agents fall prey to these scams. Don't be a lead and don't buy a lead.
Just a broker drifting by. I understand your point about how not to do business. I didn't follow the links but I will. It is interesting watching companies that are used to living in a silo learn how to work in a flat world. And to be candid I think our industry has had as much trouble coming out of the silo as any.
Keep up the good work...
Funny... I hope the FTC actually does something... I guess what you need to do is just ignore them??? I must have received about 2 a day for about 2 weeks and then they stopped?
Wow.. You bring up a good point on something. How many of us have gotten all of these e-mails? Seems like a lot of complaints could add up really fast...
@Shannon wrote - "And to be candid I think our industry has had as much trouble coming out of the silo as any." I agree 100%
@Missy - Google works n mysterious ways
@Mark - I've been getting them off and on for months. I'm not holding my breath on the FTC...
@Paul - I'm betting a lot of people get them. Until the mess with Vlad, I just hit the delete key. Simply used it this time to help spread Vlad's story.
@Greg - not a problem. And thank you!
@OC - it can take a long time to build a rep. Not so long to tear one down.
"Execution. Since iHype is a paid blog post platform, it would make sense that they eat their own dog food by implementing paid posts as part of their marketing and launch campaign. There is only one problem with the paid posts implemented by iHype to raise awareness about their company, the bloggers they have paid are are promoting Hype.com NOT iHype.com! That’s right, this post, this post, this post and this post are paid posts where the paid reviewers are reviewing the “Ihype.com” launch on June 2nd, but actually discuss the energy drink called “Hype” that is found at hype.com, ouch."
Thats is pretty amusing.
Hopefully all goes well for Vlad
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For those who need an explanation.
http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html
How do I prevent robots scanning my site?
The quick way to prevent robots visiting your site is put these two lines into the /robots.txt file on your server
I would estimate they did this around October/November and didnt change it.
Now ejerks go fire your webmaster and stop the stupid lawsuit its your webmasters fault not anyone elses.
Mitchell
InteriorLiving.Com
However if ePerks tries to say their website and traffic was greatly diminished by the blog I would beg to differ because the robots.txt entry is doing more damage to their website than any negative post on a blog would.
Makes you wonder if ePerks did the robots.txt file on purpose or if its out of incompetence on the webmasters behalf.
If VLAD wants to end this just send the attorneys this link. - Look at the areas I boxed in Red.
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For those who need an explanation.
http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html
How do I prevent robots scanning my site?
The quick way to prevent robots visiting your site is put these two lines into the /robots.txt file on your server
I would estimate they did this around October/November and didnt change it.
ejerks should fire their webmaster and stop the stupid lawsuit. The robots.txt is doing much more damage to their site than any blog posting saying something negative.
WINNERS:)
Did you bother read the post before calling me and the commenters here MORONS and idiots? It's not "just a fricking email". It's about far more than dealing with spam. ePerks is suing someone on asinine, trumped up charges.
Spam I can deal with. Companies suing individuals for something as ridiculous as this, not so much.
is not suing someone on "trumpt" up charges (you sound like a rapper not a real
estate agent). trumpt up charges when the charge is made up. eperks is suing him
for damages that his blogs caused, that realy happend NOW is it right, NO, is it
ethical being he is a blogger NO but dont say the charges are trumpt up!
I'm fully aware of the definition of "trumped up charges". In my opinion, that's exactly what Behrouzi and ePerks are doing. I think their case is ridiculous and Behrouzi and his lawyers are delusional. I guess the courts will ultimately decide. The court of public opinion has pretty much already reached their verdict.
If you don't like my opinion, or what I have to say, the solution is simple -- don't read it.
No way to know for sure, nor do I really care. I just find it remarkable that virtually all the "support" shown for ePerks across the net always seems to originate from either the East Bay, or far far off-shore.
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