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Penny-Arcade: "Marketers of the Avenger Controller are thieves and liars".

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la flama blanca

Banned
DRock said:
"When keeping it real goes wrong..."

what an asshat.
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D

dofry

That's "Dr." dofry to you.
rakhir said:
Haha, he cut his surname from @OceanMarketting twitter account

Kinda late, Mr Christoforo.
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Shouldn't it be Mr. President?

Edit: on the company's webpage in various places.

What we offer?

Professional approach

We ensure excellent caliber of work that is written in proper English and is consistent stylistically. We complete our projects on a timely and regular basis.
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Drive more viral traffic to your site with informative content.
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2. Integrity and honesty are at the core of our business values. We expect our leaders and people to maintain high ethical standards in everything they do, both in their work for Ocean Marketing and in their personal lives.
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Love this stuff.
 
ShinNL

ShinNL

Member
Spelling and grammar is the least of his problems now :p

I'm pretty sure all the mails are from the same single person running the 'company'. Seems like a 1-man hackjob.

Over 90 1-in-a-million negative posts in this thread already, oh noez, what will Paul do about this!? Nothing I suppose, there are still 999,910 potential customers left... :D

What a dumb ass.
 
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gotee12

Member
Well the dude was right. This is great for publicizing their product. I had never even heard of the Avenger until now.

And thanx to that immature rant, I now know to never purchase one and stop anyone within my realm of influence from purchasing one as well.
 
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Scrow

Still Tagged Accordingly
i kinda feel sorry for someone so utterly clueless and unaware of the shit storm about to hit him
 
J

Juice

Member
Hah, at "@OceanMarketting"

I just can't believe he spelled "marketing" wrong in his twitter handle. What a lazy fucking bastard.
 
T

TheSeks

Blinded by the luminous glory that is David Bowie's physical manifestation.
Y2Kev said:
In what school do they teach people to put spaces between the end of sentences and punctuation? I demand to know .

It doesn't make any sense . SO FRUSTRATING !
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Y R U SO MAD ? ? ? ? . !

Y2Kev said:
I'm constantly surprised by this. Even in my workplace, adults just cannot spell or write. I can't tell if it is disregard for the communication form or the person receiving it, but I can't stand silly spelling mistakes, easy grammatical errors, and the like.
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TL;DCTSC.

;) Computers have made the world better and terrible at the same time.


Dartastic said:
Hey MarkMan, do YOU know the mayor of Boston? :p
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Nah, he knows Kadey
Inside and out
.
 
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Neuromancer

Member
Wow apparently this is not new (again this is a link from the OT thread):

http://www.natesnetwork.com/Poor-customer-service

from Ocean Marketing pchristoforo@gmail.com
to Nathan Stansell <nate@natesnetwork.com>
date Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:44 PM
subject RE: N-Control Shop: New Order #

Buddy your asking for free stuff and I am trying to help you , You have no idea what happened to our ordering system or our old customer service reps that told you they were going to send you a 100% COUPON AND FREE CONTROLLER but never did . So calm yourself down , be respectful and do as I say or ask to get your free controller. I DEAD SERIOUS ! Be a little more humble we can refuse the right to ship out anything to anyone we want , I&#8217;m trying to help you. Small claims court for 49 dollars haha &#8230; that&#8217;s cute . I&#8217;m the President of my company not The Avengers so keep your punk smite ignorant comments to yourself. If I wasn&#8217;t trying to help you I wouldn&#8217;t have emailed you back. Customer service of old is gone were in a new generation now. Sorry for any inconvenience , this will ship tomorrow I&#8217;m putting in the order now .

No need to beg a simple reply to the email with your address would have been sufficient, and according to you your order already shipped how do we know you never received it ?

Anyway Ill make sure its made good and you get The New Avenger learn to be more understanding when you don&#8217;t know whats going on behind the scenes.

Your order will ship tomorrow thanks for your email have a good one.
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I DEAD SERIOUS !
 
K

Keavy_Rain

Member
Shig said:
Walk down an aisle of iPod/iPhone accessories sometime. People happily pay $20 for a thin slab of moulded rubber.
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I paid $400 with two year contract for my iPhone and that thin slab of moulded rubber has saved my iPhone from damage and destruction more times than I care to admit.

Apples to Oranges, friend.
 
Clear

Clear

CliffyB's Cock Holster
That was so bad I'm having a hard time believing it was real!

This guy should get customer service tips from Basil Fawlty! Insane.
 
E

echoshifting

Banned
EphemeralDream said:
Sick and at home but this is giving me a good laugh.

The Facebook group/page is worth a look too. A company that launched in 2010 with supposedly 125 dedicated staffers, yet he is using what looks like a private email for contact info.
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=138390182857837
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And from there it's a skip and a jump to his personal profile, which isn't private at all. Given the brewing shitstorm one would think he'd have the sense to secure the pictures of his infant child and personal info of his fiancee. This is a social media expert?? Christ, I almost feel bad for the guy, and I definitely feel bad for his future bride. This is gonna get nasty.

Apparently he studied culinary arts, perhaps that would be a more suitable career path.

Y2Kev said:
In what school do they teach people to put spaces between the end of sentences and punctuation? I demand to know .

It doesn't make any sense . SO FRUSTRATING !
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This one, I guess.
 
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tuffy

Member
Rarely have I seen such an impressive mixture of unprofessionalism, puerile posturing and poor grammar from a customer relations person.
 
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Neuromancer

Member
More from that link

from Ocean Marketing pchristoforo@gmail.com
to Nathan Stansell <nate@natesnetwork.com>
date Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:21 PM
subject RE: N-Control Shop: New Order #

Im shipping this because your owed a unit , That’s it , I could care less about court . Anyway I won’t stoop to your level I run a few companies . I just knew of your issue as of lately since the transition. Were now doing most business through Amazon easy to track and has a lot of order and recognition. Your controller order was already placed as soon as In finished writing that email. Post this where ever you want your one little person out of Millions we don’t mind the attention negative or positive its attention press and media for free stir it up. Customer service is outstanding and I’m taking care of everything now in a timely manner , karma is a well you know the saying. So do what you think you need to your New Avenger is going in the mail tomorrow morning. Thanks for the email and any controversy and attention you can stir up , enjoy your new Avenger the new ones are really nice. Have a great day

Thank You,

info@avengercontroller.com

800-492-5455

N-Control
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L

Lonestar

I joined for Erin Brockovich discussion
Just another one of those "moments on the internet."

We've added "Mayor of Boston" to the Meme List

Pennywise the Clown adds to the flavor as well.
 
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hitoshi

Member
ZealousD said:
When IGN calls you unprofessional, you know you've hit rock bottom.
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/thread

I think we should do everything in order to have Christopho meet GAF's Japanese expert. Their ideas would be amazing! He already knows everything about this guy's work ethic:

Honor and shame are huge parts of it. It’s not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole.
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dofry

That's "Dr." dofry to you.
Lonestar said:
Just another one of those "moments on the internet."

We've added "Mayor of Boston" to the Meme List

Pennywise the Clown adds to the flavor as well.
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Make a Mayor of Boston/ Thomas M. Menino twitter account and post on that twitter feed.
Maybe Tthomas M. Menino would be better suited.
 
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Sickboy007

Member
Yeah people should just try to destroy his career, not his private life.

In other news, the avenger is currently being amazon-bombed.
 
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Swig_

Member
How do people like this even get work?

He has to send emails to clients at least some times, right? Why would anyone hire someone who types on a 3rd grade level? Hell, look at his tweets for the companies he works for... why would anyone give this guy work, aside from cleaning toilets?
 
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industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
ScientificNinja said:
Dear Arrogant Marketing Guy: Sometimes, no matter how right you think you are, it's just not worth having the last word.
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I run the company I work for's social networking marketing (large software company) and even though I put up with some frustrating complaints/comments from users, I remember that I've got a have that whole "this is not me, this is my company" wall between me and them.

This guy took a sledgehammer to his.
 
J

Jockel

Member
The insanely high amount of your/you're and they're/their mistakes makes me sick. Atrocious grammar. I'm not even a native speaker and can't stand reading this.
 
M

Monroeski

Unconfirmed Member
I like how he mentioned getting Kevin Kelly to pull strings at G4 in the emails but didn't know that Kelly doesn't even work at G4 anymore (as of a tweet 1 hour ago). Not that Kelly wouldn't still have contacts at the network, but if you're going to namedrop like that you should at least know where the guy is employed.
Juice said:
Hah, at "@OceanMarketting"

I just can't believe he spelled "marketing" wrong in his twitter handle. What a lazy fucking bastard.
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There is actually an @OceanMarketing, so I'm assuming he misspelled his because the original was taken and wasn't smart enough to come up with a decent option (like adding an underscore between words, which was NOT taken).
 
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Ezalc

Member
Kod1ak said:
How do people like this even get work?

He has to send emails to clients at least some times, right? Why would anyone hire someone who types on a 3rd grade level? Hell, look at his tweets for the companies he works for... why would anyone give this guy work, aside from cleaning toilets?
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This was mentioned before but the only way I could see him getting this job is if he's either in charge of the whole thing and was the one that started the company or that he has a close relative in a high position who gave him the job and is obviously regretting it right about now.
 
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