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Funny because I always thought...

Posted By: Bluto Samartino
Sunday, 8 January 2006, at 6:33 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Why even bother? What good could it do for you? (Jason)

Don Alm owned SowPub. Go figure. NOt sure where I picked up that idea.

> Dien (sowpubs owner) says that he is not in on it with Don. The only thing
> I know is he says that he deletes posts becasue of the No attack policy. I
> have asked him why he allows Don to post his obvious blatant ads and his
> was that it is because he also supplies info that is useful to the board
> in such posts. My posts are acctually not deleteted, instead they are
> never seen as I am on administrative watch, where he can decide if my
> stuff is worthy of being seen. Not certain if the things I have found
> would be PROOF in any court in the land, but would certainly make people
> think twice before trusting Don 100%. Not certain if it is ethical of Don
> direct people to a board to gain the trust of potential purchasers of his
> Biz opps, when He knows full well that any thing written negatively will
> be zapped. Does this mean that Dien is in his back pocket, NO! It does
> however show that Don has found a person willing, for whatever reason, to
> zap negative posts about him thus allowing him to use the board as HIS
> testimonial page. I don't really think Dien is being paid money from Don
> for this service, but it is the only board that Don hangs out at. People
> hang on the edge of their seats waiting for the next story Written by Don.
> I am not certain why, maybe it gives the people that WANT to be in
> business for themselves hope. Don is a great story teller and I do find
> his interesting and as Dien has pointed out to me, I have gained from a
> post of his. He posted about business cards a few times and it got my
> brain thinking..... I developed a market for these cards, and have turned
> a buck or 2 from it. I read through the fluff of how he has 2 (I think)
> people out every day making $800/day. here is the link

> http://www.sowpub.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/read/24921

> I know he was full of it becasue just a short time earlier (about a month)
> he was asking on the board for a source of these cards.here is that link

> http://www.sowpub.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/read/24220

> If he had been doing this for a while, wouldn't he already have a source.
> So did learn anything from Don about the business cards, I guess he
> mentioned business cards and those 2 words got me thinking about a better
> market for them.
> There is not guilty not guilty verdict in either of the above links, just
> Don being Don. I too love his "stories" they are quite
> entertaining, just not stories of a person who has "been der done
> dat"
> Thanks,
> Jason

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