Comments on: Joel Comm Screwed Up

By: Vista Shutdown Button

Vista Shutdown Button — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:00:22 +0000

What about all the other posts by other people selling it via affiliate sales and pretending its news and there was nothing wrong going on – are they donating their money as well? I didn’t think so.
I am sick of these people writing about a good deal when the post is just an advert and nothing else.

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:16:19 +0000

I agree 100%.
Whilst I think giving money to charity is a good thing, theres no denying this was a move he had to make so I wouldnty say it was noble – he realised his online reputation was hurt badly. He has lost his integrity because of all this.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:08:00 +0000

He f’d up big time, but donating all profits (and that’s a few thousand dollars at the very minimum) to charity for the next two weeks as well as a salesy apology is a very noble move on his part.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:18:34 +0000

Bill, I’d have to agree. To me, the actions you take when you think no one will notice are much more telling than what you do when you’ve been caught.

Joel, assuming we buy your claim that your shopping cart forced you down this deceptive marketing path, you obviously put your wallet before your customers when you chose to go ahead with the launch as it was. You seem to have sorted the shopping cart issue out now so would it have killed you to delay your launch a day or two?

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