Re: UKNM: Banner ads served by Scoot

[Duncan Clubb]

A while ago I went through the immense pain that is the Scoot sales pitch.

Apart from being very unhappy with the concept that I could pay to have my

company come up top in any post code I wanted (not necessarily the one we are

in), which devalues the whole directory idea, I decided to check on the details

that were currently held for us.  Imagine my surprise when our address came up

as one that we had moved out of nearly 3 years previously - so I said to the

*salesman* that it was a bit rich asking me to pay whatever it was when our

entry was so out of date.  Their response? 'Oh, we get our address database from

Dun & Bradstreet - you should get in touch with them - it's nothing to do with

us'.  Oh really - your main asset, your directory listings, are nothing to do

with you and you don't care enough to ensure that the information you serve is

correct.  I think my response was similar to 'go forth and multiply', and my

opinion has not since changed.


Aye

duncan


Kevin Rice wrote:


> Dear all,

>

> In Febuary 1998 we registered for a preferential listing in Scoot`s online

> directory. Our website advertises our internet training courses and so we

> were entered into Scoot's "Computer Training" directory. The contract was

> for one year, but our listing was not very effective, in terms of lead

> generation, and so we did not renew our subscription in Feb 99.

>

> Today we looked to see if we were still listed amongst the rank and file of

> non-paying organisations. We were, and out of interest we clicked on the

> link that Scoot provided to our website. We were then very surprised to see

> that an additional frame had been added to the top of our site and within

> this frame was an advert for Waitrose!


[Sam says: original post chopped for brevity]

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