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Bob
writes in .....
as our
regular readers know we have
spelled Bob's name backwards so
that nobody will know whom we are
talking about ..... and though
this is not Bob's entire letter
below because the original
contains irrelevant stuff, we
have included the part unedited
that is relevant.
Bob
writes .....
FED
UP WITH GIVEAWAY EVENTS
It
seems there's at least one new
giveaway event launching every
single day and most of them have
more contributors than
members!
That's not the way it's supposed
to be but that's what is
happening
with giveaway events these
days...too many people sign up
as
contributors and then don't
promote the event to their email
lists, so only a few members sign
up to get the gifts.
It's as if their primary goal is
to leach subscribers off the
few
contributors who actually do
promote the event, while keeping
their subscribers all to
themselves.
And this attitude has become so
prevalent that many giveaway
event hosts have adopted a new
"rule," which is to downgrade
contributors who don't get any
referrals to regular member
status and remove their gift,
even if the contributor paid for
the upgrade.
Not long ago, if you paid to
upgrade your contributor account,
you
wouldn't be downgraded for having
no referrals.
One of the reasons for offering a
paid upgrade was to give
"newbies," who may only have a
small list or no list, a chance
to build one, but it became
abused by more seasoned
contributors as a way to get more
exposure and keep from getting
tossed out for not
having any referrals.
And, don't even get me started on
all the duplicate resale
rights
products people contribute as
gifts or the "buy or die"
approach
many contributors have towards
their subscribers!
and she goes on which we would
have published except for the
fact it has identifiable
information within
.....
and for the
most part she is absolutely
right.
We
wrote about this years ago
ourselves and now feature it
on our tech support site - that
10% float the other 90% - and
believe it or not these non
promoters believe they are
actually entitled to
something.
Here is a
letter from another Bob that we
received yesterday word for word
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WHY
has my account been
downgraded?????
Looking at your FAQ, it states
that I have not promoted this
event to my "LIST"!!!!!!!
I have joined this giveaway as I
am just NEW and DON'T have a
LIST!!!
THAT IS WHY I JOINED THE GIVEAWAY
TO BUILD A LIST!!!!!
Please respond to that!
And if you do not change my
status to being in the Giveaway,
then DELETE me off your list AND
no further correspondence to be
sent either.
Thank you.
Bob
Well everyone
whom knows us knows what happened
with this rude Bob and his wrong
answer.
He is now
permanently blacklisted in our
lists, our events, and after we
load the newest version of our
Dedicated Server Firewall on
Saturday he will not be able to
even look at any of our web site
nor participate in any of our
events ever again.
The name of
the Giveaway Game as the first
Bob not so directly pointed out
is that Giveaways are all about
reciprocal list
building.
Therefore
Bob that does not have a list,
you should have upgraded because
in our events to date we still DO
NOT boot upgraded accounts giving
the new folks a chance to build
their lists which is the same
chance we were given years
ago.....
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