Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Shopping.com: A bunch of liars

Deceptive advertising really ticks me off. You've got enough misinformation to sort through without some "marketing genius" trying to mislead you when you want to buy something.

Boohoo Search Marketing apparently does a much poorer job than Google of protecting it's advertisers' interests. Case in point: This new ad from the liars at shopping.com:

1 800 Bakery at Shopping.com
Find, Compare and Buy 1 800 Bakery. Choose from Thousands of stores.
www.shopping.com

I won't dignify the rats at lying.com with a link. You shouldn't dignify them with your business, because, as I've said many times, if someone's going to lie to you, how can you trust anything they say?

Here's an honest statement:

We are not affiliated in any way, shape, or form, with the liars who run shopping.com. You will not find our products there, only lies.

That should get the point across. The filthy lying liars at lying.com need to stop buying ads on our company name and misleading our customers. Boohoo Search Marketing ought to do a better job of preventing this. I've rewritten our ad in Boohoo, and I'm fully expecting a rejection for "trademark violation," at which point a lovely conversation will begin with them about why one company is allowed to break the rules and another isn't.

You can rest assured that I'll post every word.

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