Monthly Archives: June 2008

Site owners beware: Gr-Ads.com/Grassroots Advertising are a CON !

Posted by Wendy on June 23, 2008 21 comments

Yep, these people contact you and ask to place an ad, or ads, on your site/blog. They offer you amounts of money that seem too good to be true…and they are. For example: they offer you $100 to place one or two really crappy ads for, say, a fishing trip in Alaska or hotel deals…the ads are very poorly worded and the bad grammar gives the game away.

Then they ask for your PayPal details – Do Not Give Them!

Here’s what others are saying about Gr-Ads.com around the online world, just follow these links:

Advertising company Gr-Ads-Something Smells Fishy

Several of the employees are currently leaving comments on this site posing as ‘satisfied customers’…here are some examples…they are all fake artists!

The below one is from ‘ShanNing’…if you can believe it…

“My friend got the email from Gr Ads too, he told me that he has been got the money via PayPal.

I searched about Gr, it is a company that buy/sell inner text link on blogs, but normal, it cost about 25 US dollars per links.

You have a great blog, because your links worth more than 25 US dollars. I hope someone buy my blog’s links too”

Note the bad english…more…this one is from ‘Michelle’…these people are desperate!

“Hi, I got ads from them before. For a small blogger like me, that’s a huge amount. So I have no complaint. Btw, those photos of the ladies are real.  I think they are studio photos, photoshop. Everyone will look pretty after being photoshop. I know one of the employees personally (a very good friend of mine) and Gr-ads is not a scam. ”

And from ‘Marina’…

“I was approached by the same company a few months back and was quite happy with the set-up and to be frank, it may not be for everyone but it worked for me at the time!”

Yeah right…these people are trying to save their backsides…

http://hektik.org/forums/main-page/3877-tom-petty-will-my-party.html

This is Christina Taylor from the same place trying the same shit..

http://groups.google.com/group/kuali-rice/browse_thread/thread/20c342d3a0aca6db

Their site uses fake photographs – their employees are not the girls in the pictures and they also have very poor PR skills and very bad spelling.

If you get an email from Kristen, Christina or whoever from Gr-ads.com or Grassroots Advertising  then here is my advice…ignore them – delete them!!

They are after your email address for spam purposes.

They operate from Albany, New York – thank god for my feedjit who told me this…I will have their ISP soon and will share it.

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When ‘Ni hea’ means ‘NON’ !

Posted by Wendy on June 22, 2008 No comments

When the Irish voted against the Lisbon Treaty just recently they mean’t it. And the British too would love to have their chance to do the same. But those leaders of an increasingly fascist Europe – France and Germany – are doing their best to ignore this.

Sarkozy wants a ‘Oui’ from Ireland, and every other EU nation, and is prepared to use bully tactics to achieve his aims.

The Irish Govt are bending to pressure from Brussels and are expected to ask their free thinking citizens to vote again – and this time they want a ‘sea’ – a ‘yes’.  But I don’t like it’s chances.

The Irish used their democratic process – one of the few left who use their opportunity to tell Brussels where to get off – and it should be accepted that the people have spoken. The French have their own liberal view with regards to EU laws and directives; they follow the one’s that suit France and ignore the rest which other EU nations have to tolerate.

Sorry France, sorry Sarkozy – the Irish are a different kettle of fish. They have said ‘No’ and they mean it. You can force as many referendums on them as you like – the answer will still always be the same.

So deal with it.

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Lazy parents or is it the nurserie’s fault?

Posted by Wendy on June 22, 2008 2 comments

I was reading this past week about something quite disturbing regarding a growing number of children in the United Kingdom; schools are seeing children – some as old as ten – who are still wearing diapers, or nappies.

This sounds freaky to me as a mother. Teachers are claiming that this is prevalent in children who have spent their baby/toddler years in fulltime nursery care – Mum is too busy to toilet train her child so leaves it to those in charge at the nursery. Those in charge at the nursery are also too busy to efficiently handle this important stage in a child’s development and so the problem develops – and stays. The companies who produce the adult diaper are now seeing a new market for their product; school kids – just how these kids cope at school worries me. What about sport, swimming – changeroom situations…?

Sadly, maybe, a sign of our times.

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