(Engineer) A fine line between spamming & supporting?

Having read a few threads + posts, that seem more like adverts and fake responses.

This takes the cake : receiving a PM here on PC for me to visit their website.

My response was less than amicable. [Edit1: I got angry about it publicly - not a good thing]

Enginer.us PHEV should simply pay for banner ads here on PC, and on PC there should be a forum dedicated to the advertisers buying banner space specifically on this site (not syndicated banners).

Like that we could post there on their wares, and have them respond, etc, build trust.

Reputation is everything on the web. This spam I received, I see as either:

a) a desperate company
b) a greedy company

Copy of PM received:

From: chenyj
Please visit www.enginer.us for affordable complete PHEV conversion kit for under $2000

Jack
​

PERHAPS it is not too late for them to clear things up publicly.
AS IN FULL DISCLOSURE.

EDIT2: Jack ended up getting banned, which pretty much everyone agrees was too strong a measure, so he cannot "clear things up". This makes for a very one-sided argument. Myself included, asked Danny to allow him back.

EDIT3: Surely some reasons so many "new" people arrived on PC just to talk about this PHEV system, it's low price and a $500 price reduction in exchange for being "beta" (though beta term was never used) testers or "test pilots".

It's easy to take this one step further, that Jack asked them to be vocal about it on the Internet. However, this is pure conjecture on my part, and this view is shared by others on PC.

Advice for the new Enginer PHEV owners - quit bitching - be happy for your purchase and DOCUMENT everything online here on PC, and support will grow naturally.

Some have been doing that and have received THANKS which is the best reputation system, better than the total number of posts.

 

Ya I forwarded to Danny. It sure was weird. :mod:

1. I never posted in their threads on PC
2. I get a PM from a user with barely 10 posts on PC
3. The user is clearly affiliated with Enginer, not someone from PC that had it done and PM'ed me about it
4. It was just before lunch

The point of this thread though, is that not just Enginer but any other company wanting to promote their Prius-friendly product / company.

I turned ON banners & ads for this site in my Firefox. Never saw or heard about Enginer until some of their threads popped up, with all of a sudden people posting (relatively new people) that they had it done.

It just seems like marketing gone wrong. I would have done things different, by reaching out to all the Mods of Prius websites first.
Banners, reviews, then the inevetable "I got mine done" thread.

Oh well, Point #4 probably contributed to the overzealous part some people have already told me.

If I'm the one out of whack, I'll have Danny remove this thread.

 

:mod: When it's too good to be true ... :mod:

Nice to know I'm not that crazy

 

Re: (Enginer) A fine line between spamming & supporting?

Oh boy, I am getting a big kick (as in fun) out of this.
:rofl:

Check out Joanna's reply and my reply to the reply.

Someone else, mentions how I *wrongly* posted the exact same post in two different threads about Enginer.us. That could be against posting guidelines. Possibly?

Depending on how the next round goes :fencing:, it might just inspire me to create a new forum game in FHOPancakes.

Wow, a bunch of new users coming to the 'defense'.

 

Perhaps uses 230 amps, and requires wires of gage 2 - a 100 pound extension cord...

Joking aside, just another sign that something isn't right when the site has not been proof-read. Jeez, now we're helping them.

Had they asked I would have volunteered, and even translated into French for them.

 

He he. It's the point of forums to be verbose.
If you want a clean thread, you have to moderate it, like the politic thread.
Plus, more drama is fun.

 

FWIW, Danny The Mod (tm) used his Magic Eraser to make the banter go away, not related to those threads.

This thread remains though, and let it serve well for others on both sides.

Thus the drama remains here on FHOP where it belongs.

Now off to invent Eight Words...