on 12/11/02 11:01 PM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > >
Hello Dan (I am posting this to the list so to ensure i am not sensorsed and all on the list can see what i have to write i to do not believe in sensorship) I just read your mac musing from 11/11/2002 and first of all i must say i dont agree nor disagree with the subject at hand but from what i saw (mac musing) all the responses were mostly positive, did you get any more negative responses? except those from Mr. bauer and Mr. zehe ? Just curious if we are seeing both sides of the coin or are we being manipulated to see just the side someone wants us to see? But all in all i love your site and i really enjoy the pbook list so keep up the good work(and until the day i find something i disagree with on your site i will still enjoy visiting it on a weekly basis Thank you for letting me have a little piece of your valuable time Thomas -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
