Dan Knight wrote: > I'm sure you're all aware of the campaign by Rick Bauer to destroy Low > End Mac by telling our advertisers what a terrible site we are for > allowing our writers to share some opinions Mr. Bauer disagreed with. > > <http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/02/1030.html> > > The fruits of his campaign: Other World Computing and Crucial Memory were > among many sites receiving emails from Mr. Bauer, Russ Arcuri, and > possibly others. Both sites contacted us, learned that we were moving > such content elsewhere, and continue to support Low End Mac with ads > and/or affiliate fees. > > Mac Zone, Mac Mall, and Verizon DSL have removed us from their affiliate > programs without ever contacting us (or if they did, their emails either > didn't survive our spam filtering or were not sent as plain text email). > I removed all links to Mac Zone about a week ago and all links to Mac > Mall tonight. > > I don't have details of our dealings with Mac Zone, but my records show > that over the past year we have generated 16,000 visits, 100 purchases, > and nearly $60,000 in sales volume. I am disappointed that they would > give this up without saying a thing to us. > > I recommend that if you value Low End Mac, you take your business to > dealers who support our site -- OWC, Crucial Memory, Small Dog > Electronics, PowerMax, Club Mac, and MacResQ among them -- and not > support businesses such as Mac Mall, Mac Zone, and Verizon DSL that have > pulled their support from Low End Mac. > > If you do choose to boycott any of these businesses, you might want to > tell them why. What goes around comes around. >
I am going to say that I am with LEM all the way. I've never purchased nothing from Mac Mall, Mac Zone, or Verizon DSL (yeah they called the other day and insisted on their new free month offer) my sister told them about 15 times "I AM NOT INTERESTED" but the guy kept talking and talking. One week before, I told them "yeah the first month is free then you'll try to hook me up for a year's contract and if after the 30 days trial I forget to call to stop the service you'll start charging me" I once had Real One trial and I forgot to cancel, A week later I did and they refused to give me my money back cause they WERE providing the service "if you didn't use it it was your problem". I am tired of that bull. BTW I do order from MacResQ and trust them very much. Thought you had dropped them since I don't see their link on the lists messages anymore, but I am glad you haven't. BTW I did mention LEM as I placed my latest order :) Liliana -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
