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. > Boycotting MacMall is no problem. After a $200 hosing, I've been doing that for about 15 years.
> >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. > Mac Zone, I will have to send a letter of disapproval. They have been my favorite vendor, for nearly 20 years. Been trying OWC and have favorable transactions to this point. IMHO, OWC does seem to support the Mac community better than the others. RHB > > -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
