On 11/4/10 1:13 PM, Fred Posner wrote: > On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Jai Rangi wrote: > >> Vitelity is too expensive. That's why we have been very busy in porting >> number from Vitelity to didforsale.com > Wow. You work for didforsale.com... if you're going to post something like > that, you should make it clear. Otherwise, it kind of just makes you assholic.
Now, see... since I know Jay is the owner of didforsale.com, I understood 'we' to be didforsale.com in that above sentence. To me, that read: "Didforsale.com has been very busy porting numbers from Vitelity [because of Vitelity's charges]." Now, whether that's true or not, I'd consider such a statement neither deceptive nor 'assholic.' It's like saying car X handles better than car Y and is cheaper, too. Or "Coke tastes better than Pepsi." Pretty standard comparitive marketing. Should Jai have come out and said "I represent didforsale.com" somewhere in his posting? Perhaps. Should he have signed it as the corporate owner? Maybe. But he's been around here long enough that maybe he didn't think it was necessary to mention it. I, for one, almost never mention the company I run in these emails, and I VERY rarely sign my emails with my corporate identity. To me, it feels too much like using the list as a marketing tool instead of an exchange of business-related information. I'm sure I'm missing out a little on some marketing, but this list is such that, were I to say the wrong thing, I'd be sure to be 'shredded' right and left, and THAT'S certainly never good marketing. ;) Oh... and by the way... my company? Totally awesome. And much better than all the others. Just thought I'd throw that out there. ;) N. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
