My friend Rob can’t use his U2 tickets. If you want to buy them, leave a comment. First come, first served (though I can’t guarantee that he hasn’t sold them through other means). Here are the details:
2 U2 tickets, great seats
Friday, April 29
Section 110 (there’s a seating chart here)
Row 22, seats 109 and 110
$400 for the pair
DarrenBarefoot.com 
Hi Darren,
Perhaps you are the type of person with some sort of fat ego superiority complex when it comes to thinking that you have all the answers about everything while talking shit about other people and thier businesses and websites. This must make you feel much better about yourself and your existence. You must be really in love with yourself. I kind of get this feeling by the way you have pictures of yourself plastered all over your site. I really didn’t appreciate reading your blog flame on my company and my products. The fact is you know nothing about me nor the amount of success I have achieved with my company and products. Is this how you win new clients? Sounds like a nice way to make some good enemies to me. You must have alot of them. I believe in always treating other the way I would like to be treated. I also believe that what comes around, goes around. Have a nice life asshole.
I guess he doesn’t want the tickets…
now i wanna read the review. got a link D?
Check out anon’s ‘About Us’ page if you want a laugh.
“…Central to that philosophy is our efforts to hold ourselves to the highest possible standards when doing business.”
If the height of their standards means calling Darren an a***ole then what would they call him if their standards were really high…?
Sounds like he’s so far up his own a***ole that he will never find his way out to reality.
Haha, that’s great. I often ask myself why so many small businesses fail (as a small business owner myself), but then I am reminded on a regular basis when incidents such as this come along that not everyone has the same standards relating to – ahem – professionalism. The ability to take criticism and review with grace is a requirement of course. As Anon here believes so strongly in treating others as he wishes to be treated, I wonder how many of his clients he’s told off today?
further more …
“Respect -We treat people with dignity and value their contributions.”
I think Anon’s posting conflicts with these efforts.
So, Anon, will you be paying cash or writing me a cheque? I hope they do “The Electric Company”–that’d be appropriate.
But seriously, if you check out the original entry, I wasn’t even that hard on him. I pointed out a few issues I had with his site. He emailed me, and posted the same comment on half-a-dozen entries. I deleted all but this one.
On the other hand, I mentioned his business, and have sent 100 (given my readership, pretty well-qualified, thank you, MyBlogLog) visitors his way in the past two months.
I’ve posted his reply as an update to my original entry, as that’s where it’s relevant. I’m afraid that may reduce the number and quality of the leads I send him.
And, as I write this, he’s still posting the same comment. I’d like to get his reply to this, so I won’t block him yet. After all, batch deletion of comments takes all of 5 seconds.
Jeez. His Code of Conduct says: “Judgment – We think before we act and consider the consequences of our actions.” I don’t think this guy realizes how many people read Darren’s site, let alone how many news aggregators will distribute it throughout the web.
Also from the Code: “Respect -We treat people with dignity and value their contributions. We maintain fairness in all relationships.” Does this guy really think that’s it’s fair to call Darren an egomaniac or a**hole in response to a couple of comments about capitalization and watermarks?
But here’s the kicker. “We do not retaliate against those who report violations of law or policy.” Just how often do they find themselves in violation of the law? You wouldn’t think a company with a code of conduct would need to add this!
Hi Darren,
Is this how your company Capulet Communications wins new clients? Sounds like a pretty bad way of doing business to me.
You are really stuck on yourself aren’t you?
Ironically, I did get one client that way. I wrote negatively about their product, they called me, and it turns out the issue was with their marketing collateral, not their product. They ultimately hired me to write a whitepaper on their product. But don’t worry, I’m not seeking your business.
But let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. Do you disagree with my comments? Would you care to defend your decision to:
* Incorrectly capitalize
* Brand your site images
* Charge a lot for a battery (compared to Apple) without specifying the battery’s primary benefit
For future reference, the correct response would have been to privately email me, reasonably articulate why you disagreed with me, and ask me to update the entry. I’d have happily posted your comments verbatim. Instead, I’ve posted the comment in which you call me an asshole. Which works out better for your business?
Darren,
Don’t get in a mud fight with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig loves it.
TTFN
Travis
I like U2.
Hi Darren,
I will give you some credit only in that you did succeed in getting my attention. Would you care to defend your decision to talk shit about my website and my products to the whole world in your blog without first giving me the opportunity to explain? Do you think that you were really being fair? I tried to post my reply to your blog where it was most appropriate but apparently you had placed some sort of block on it so nobody could reply to it after that second comment in there. And who are you to tell me what my correct response should have been? I could just as easily tell you that for future reference, the correct response from you would have been to privately email me instead of announcing your entitled although uninformed opinion to the whole world without giving me the opportunity to reply to your posting. To answer your question, yes I do disagree with your comments and although there are very good reasons for everything and I do appreciate your invitation to explain I will choose not defend my decision for doing anything at this time. At this time I think that this is currently best reserved for another topic. If you have something negative to say about someone then don’t you think that you should say it directly to them while giving them the opportunity to respond first before talking shit about them to the whole world behind thier back?
Hmm. Somebody sounds a bit insecure here, and it ain’t Darren… 🙂
Well, Sean, we disagree on that. I think I’ve got the right to speak negatively about any public figure or institution I care to. And, since your website is public, it qualifies. I’m under no obligation to notify businesses or individuals when I write about them. Happily, as you’ve just demonstrated, the Internet does this for me.
The reason you couldn’t comment on the original post is because I’ve implemented an anti-comment spam strategy that closes comments on old postings. If there’s anything you’d care to add to that posting, let me know and I’ll probably post it for you in the main body.
The funniest thing is that I’ve noticed the same things in the past – site branding on images that nobody would want anyway, poorly written intros – and thought to myself “Gee, that’s silly!” So when I read Darren’s post, well, I didn’t even note the name of the company. Now I have noted it, though, and as a result of the owner’s unprofessional behaviour I’ll never, ever shop there…
(but I’d hire Darren in an instant… well, I would if I could afford to hire Darren, and if I had a business, and it was a business that needed marketing…)
I received a phone call from the poster in question who apologized for his behaviour and calling me an asshole.
At his request, I’ve anonymized this page, and modified the original page’s content. That means he sacrifices the visitors I regularly send him and the related Google juice.
People occasionally ask me to modify or remove content from my site. I sometimes do and I sometimes don’t–it’s mostly based on how much I care about a particular post. In this case, I don’t, and besides, I made my point, didn’t I?
And, of course, the Internet never really forgets.
So… how much did the U2 tickets go for??
Well, the tickets didn’t sell through this discussion (surprisingly), but they did sell for the asking price.
But now I need to spend the money on therapy after reading this thread 😉
Darren, just wanted to tell you that the poster’s name still appears in one of the comments in this thread.
Darren, just wanted to tell you that the poster’s name still appears in one of the comments in this thread.