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Originally Posted by pornask
LOL, this is so true though :D
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If you want to laugh your ASS off, check this out:
https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/690834-sponsors-feedback-beta-tester-rss-solution-post12584264.html
It's Feed Pushers, something we came up with a few years back. After servicing a very limited client-base with it, we decided to open it up to a larger distribution, and add a bunch of features. Almost half a year after I posted it, I see this:
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=732473
ROFL -- sound familiar? It's SO similar, it even uses the same FORMAT to input entries.
Granted, no "serious" sponsor would use his WordPress plug-in (rofl) to run their program, but still. An obvious complete rip-off.
So, I call him on it, and he comes into MY thread, from six MONTHS ago, and implies my OUR product is similar to HIS! Bah haha.
Ok, but it gets better.
So, I decide to give away the software itself for free, and price it like a service (end-to-end, we do everything .. write the posts, choose the pictures, it's COMPLETELY hands-off for the sponsor). So, he's like "Oh, no, MINE is a service -- I install it!") .. Jace was laughing his ass off as he tried to explain to the guy that installing a PRODUCT doesn't make it a service, but the Russian guy's English wasn't good enough to understand.
So, the Russian thief goes off on this HUGE temper tantrum, bumping old threads, crying about all this crap, making up stuff about Xbiz (where I am a Moderator, and write for the magazine Xbiz World). The best part is no one even replied, but ICQ lit up with people pasting the link and laughing. It was hilarious, because he even went to other BOARDS and shed tears there, TOO! He ended up having his threads closed by another Moderator, which he then bitched about THAT, saying it was somehow an abuse of the other Mod's power. I was thinking I should send him some Kleenex.
So, I was like "Yup, just another Russian!"
In the meantime, a bunch of major programs came to us for the launch, and he got Never-Heard-of-Us-Cash and No-One-Cares-Because-We-Have-One-Affiliate-Bucks as "customers" for his product.
This is my 4,999th post. My 5,000th will be about the "launch" sponsors for Feed Pushers.
In any event, I hope it gave you a chuckle -- it's SO true what they say, hehe.