[MacDV] Re: Marbella Technologies New Major Discounter of New Macs

[Matthew Guemple]

Indeed. I work in publishing, and I think for the most part no one 
actually looks much at the ad, just whether they are ugly or not and 
whether or not they will actually pay their bill.

On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 11:05 AM, Charles Martin wrote:

>> From: JM <juanm at mac.com>
>>
>> my question about this company is how is it that MacAddict accepted an
>> ad from them?
>
> Imagine Publishing probably did not bother to investigate them prior 
> to accepting their payment for the ad, that's all. I'm sure once it's 
> brought to their attention they will take steps to ensure that doesn't 
> happen again.
>
> It would be nice to think that the publishing companies would watch 
> out for "obvious rip-off" ads but because the Mac community attracts 
> very few such scam artists (relative to other communities) perhaps 
> they just missed the warning signs. Most publishers, otoh, are pretty 
> good about taking corrective steps once it's been shown that an 
> advertiser is shady.
>
> _Chas_
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