Comments on: When a company you like does something sleazy

By: rob

rob — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:31:11 +0000

@Jonathan – cool. I connected the dotted lines Glad to have you here – and on Twitter!

By: Jonathan Trenn

Jonathan Trenn — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:28:19 +0000

Rob, I’m following you on Twitter. @jptrenn And I first emailed you the night you were battling Amanda Chapel.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:53:16 +0000

@Jonathan – yeah – I’ve heard this scam before – once I “won” a car, but had to be married to claim it. I think if I would have been married they would have told me I needed to be single!

Normally I don’t let a tele-marketer get 10 seconds with me – but when I (thought) I heard the name of a local company I respect, I listened.

Nice scam, I suppose. But I wonder about the kind of people that can do this for a living and then go home and “pretend to raise their children”.

There is only one way to raise kids – by example. I’m pleased you have your focus on your son. That speaks volumes of your character (and I have no clue who you are!).

Rob

By: Jonathan Trenn

Jonathan Trenn — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:36:08 +0000

I’ve received similar phone call/offers. And, I, like you, am a single father. My son is more important to me than anything else, and I’m not aggressively looking. But if I was in the hunt for a significant other, this would be one of the most insulting things in the world. It would serve as a reminder how empty one’s life could be.

I don’t understand how someone could have come up with this boneheaded marketing scheme.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:38:57 +0000

I know I mis-typed the company name in the initial post – I have corrected it. And as I say in my update above, I don’t believe now that GlobeScape is behind this – but they should be concerned about it. I think the caller purposely made me think this was a company I have done business with and trust – so that’s something GlobeScape needs to address.