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Originally Posted by gigabugbee
3) In regards to XBiz / Gigacash, they need to decide if they are in the business of selling advertising space or selling competing adult products & services... trying to juggle both, creates a clear conflict of interest. (QUOTE)
UMMM GigaCash is an AFFILIATE PROGRAM, XBiz is a PU-BLI-CA-TION and NEWS SOURCE. Both companies are run seperately. Competing products and services???? You are kidding right, conflict of interest? NOT AT ALL.....Take a look at our advertisers why would we have the top ten AFFILIATE programs advertising with XBiz if I VP of GIGACASH an AFFILIATE PROGRAM was worried about competing products and services.
It is too bad about this thread I called and tried to speak with you privately about your product Joe and our concerns regarding the exposure to XBiz and then you take it to the boards???
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In all fairness Stephen, we had a positive phone conversation about this matter the day after our first ad banner appeared in your XBiz newsletter (4/8/05).
You found a couple of posts in the Greenguy message board that talked about XBiz/EroticUsenet/2257, and you wanted to clarify a few points.
We talked for an extended period of time, and at your request, we sent you a statement that detailed the relationship between Usenet, our service and 2257.
After reviewing that information, you said there was "no problem", and that you'd post a reply in the Greenguy discussion thread. You also suggested that XBiz might write an editorial piece to help educate the adult industry about Usenet and the services that we provide.
That was the last time we spoke. You never made a reply post to the Greenguy discussion thread, the editorial coverage never materialized, and you also failed to respond to several phone & email messages that we left for you. Additionally, we left several messages with our XBiz account rep (Kristen) that went unanswered.
As a result, we elected to post some information into this discussion thread to help address some of the misconceptions about Usenet and our service.
In regards to my other comment... I was simply saying that as a publisher it would seem to be a conflict of interest to operate an affiliate program (Gigacash) that's linked to a variety of commercial content sites that you own. As an example, when you run a WHOIS on several of the sites listed at
http://gigacash.com/sites.html those domains are registered under Webstar Marketing, which appears on the advertising invoices that we've received from XBiz...
shelovesbigballs.com
coedchicks.com
mombang.com
etc.
In the end, all we wanted to do was address some of these issues in a responsible manner, but you elected to close off communications and essentially left us out there to hang. Not sure what we were expected to do in that situation.