I do love getting the equivalent of "cold calls" by people wanting to buy text links

[Greenguy]

Yes, I still waste my time doing crap like this

1st 2 were recv'd within 20 minutes of each other. The rest pretty much explains itself

Originally Posted by Rocky

Hi,

My name's Rocky and I work for a porn site. I'm interested in text link advertising on analsexfest.com. I've looked over your site and content and love what it has to offer. I'm interested in purchasing a text link on your website for the duration of six months to a year. If this interests you please contact me. My contact info is below.

Thanks in advance and talk soon.

--
Best,
Rocky
Ad Buying Specialist

Originally Posted by Aaron

Hi,

My name's Aaron and I work for a growing porn network. I'm interested in buying text link advertising on http://www.analsexfest.com/. I've looked over your site and content and love what it has to offer. I'm interested in purchasing links for the duration of six months to a year, so if you'd like to talk, please get in touch with me and let me know about any other sites you might be looking to sell on.

Thanks, and I hope to talk to you soon.

--
Aaron
SEO Specialist

Sent to both:

Originally Posted by Greenguy

You guys should really check with each other so that you aren't working on the same site at the same time

I do have to give you some credit for actually going to the site & getting my contact info as opposed to the blind requests I get sent to the email addy on the whois.

So tell me, how'd you find my shitty little site? What would you want to advertise on the text links?

1st one to reply might get my business
Mark - Greenguy

Originally Posted by Rocky

Well, we both work for the same company, but we work for different websites. So we could both essentially buy links from you.

Originally Posted by Greenguy

You're gonna loose me quick if you only address one part of the emails I send.

Maybe Aaron will read & reply to all my questions......

Mark - Greenguy

Originally Posted by Aaron

Right, like she said, we can both buy from you separately, but this feels like its gonna be more trouble than its worth, so ima leave this one to rocky

Originally Posted by Rocky

You're a sassy one, aren't you? Clearly you don't deal with textlink buying very often but I can assure you that I work for a renowned adult company and we own a plethora of quality websites that could have paid you good money to be on your "shitty little site". Have a good day

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Oh stop & try to get over yourself. I've been doing this since 1996 & in that time, I have dealt with many, many "marketing" people sending me blind emails, which are basically the equivalent of cold calling me on the phone. So please, I beg of you, forgive me for actually wanting to know information about this "renowned adult company" that you work for and the "plethora of quality websites" that you buy ads for before I went any further. What was I thinking?! Wanting to know who & what I was potentially dealing with?! I must be crazy!

You know what? I'll even go 1st: My name is Mark Jenkins & I own Greenguy Marketing. I have been running adult websites since 1996 and, if I may too my own horn, I'm pretty damn good at it. I have many domains & a lot of traffic, as well as a lot of decent PR rankings as far as adult sites are concerned. I mention that because I know that PR is one of the major factors that "marketing" people like you base your ad buys on.

One of my shitty little sites (my term, not yours) is Anal Sex Fest. It's a very small side project of mine that gets a whopping 3-400 uniques a day. I assume you know, since I'm sure you did a little homework on the site before you sent out your email, it's a PR3 & had 90 external links in the index page. I'll admit that I probably don't know as much about buying text links as you do, but I do know that based on those 3 things, even with 6 of the 90 links being nofollow, a 91st text link on that page has little or no value.

Now, had you asked me about my main site, I'd have replied differently. You see, that site is a PR5 with 11 external links on the index, with one being nofollow. It's been registered in my name since 1997. It gets a very decent amount of traffic. Over the last 2 weeks, the site has averaged almost 5,500 organic search engine hits per day. Again, not know as much as you do about this sort of thing, I have to assume that a textlink on that page would be BIG! Wanna know the name & URL of the site? Google my nickname

So I tend to act a little snarky when someone emails me asking about buying ads/textlinks on a website that I own. knowing that it has little or no value as far as ads/textlinks are concerned.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go to the corner of my office, curl up in the fetal position, and suck my thumb, thinking about all the "good money" that you "could have" paid me for textlinks on my shitty little website.

Hugs!
Mark - Greenguy

CC: Aaron ;-)

Originally Posted by Rocky

I'm actually very angry that I read that whole reply. None of it helped to justify why you were such a crabby asshole when we were both just trying to do our jobs. In normal situations when we contact someone about their lower quality site, they INFORM us that they do also have better websites for us to look over. I'm not really sure why you choose to go about it the way you do but we aren't dying for your business and would rather not work with someone who is so clearly obnoxious to deal with. You can mock and put my words in quotations but you truly are losing a lot of money. Judging by your gmail photo, you dont really have the right to be so arrogant and your sarcasm needs a little work. Have a great day

Originally Posted by Greenguy

I'm done being annoyed by you until you at least give me some basic info, like a company name & website address.

Otherwise, have a nice life
Mark - Greenguy

Originally Posted by Rocky

Bye :p

[Bill]

lulz brutal! I always ignore those things. never figured the money would be worth it.

[Cleo]

I've tried selling them paid spots but they always change from we want to buy a spot to our program is so fantastic that you should just put up our links.

[Greenguy]

I get a lot of them - maybe 3 or 4 a week. But these 2 caught my eye because they were from the same company & had basically the same wording.

[Tommy]

I have sold that guy rocky more then a few text links, good money, always pays

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Tommy

I have sold that guy rocky more then a few text links, good money, always pays

what does he sell for? That is, what kinds of links does he wnatto insert?

[Greenguy]

Rocky is female

Unless, he's one of those guys that puts a pic of a hot girl up on his Gmail so that sucker webmasters think they're dealing with a sexy blonde.

[Tommy]

I dont wanna say what kind of sites he has on a board but, They are always working on something new, Nothing that you wouldnt link to as a sponsor

I am disappointed he didnt email me

[pc]

I know them, different names tho, Jess, Ray, Joe and Dave. They pay good money.
Very known co.

[Fonz]

I actually almost sold a few links to rocky, but then he/she wanted me to complete a W8-form. Still trying to figure out that form

[HowlingWulf]

I got the same emails, but they were from different names. And yes I'll say it they work for Bang Bros. I gave them 3 links for a year for $100. Maybe I'll do some more.

[JustRobert]

I get these emails almost weekly and I usually just hit the delete button. Figured it was all BS maybe I need to rethink that.

[LeRoy]

My sites must be shit!!

I dont get those emails lol

[Jeremy82]

Unfortunately, these kinds of hermaphrodites don't bother me with these requests.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Rocky -

After doing some investigating & finding out that you do work for a very legit & respected company I'd like to apologize for all of my very sarcastic & inappropriate emails.

In my defense, I do get a lot of these type of emails & 99.44% of them are blind/cold calls. When I saw the very similar emails from Aaron & yourself come in 20 minutes apart, I assumed, incorrectly, that you two were just another couple of annoying marketing people sending out spam & my assholedness took over. So, I stupidly decided to fuck with you & Aaron. It was an unprovoked attack that was extremely unprofessional of me, and for that I am truly sorry.

I'll be the 1st to admit that I have a problem with going off the handle like this, usually at the wrong time and towards the wrong people. Oddly enough, this is not the 1st time I've wound up with egg on my face. Hopefully I've learned my lesson.

I do thank you for taking the time to read this email & hope to see a reply from you in the very near future.

Sincerely,
Mark "Greenguy" Jenkins

PS - Tommy from Tommy's Bookmarks is under the impression that you are male & not female LOL

PSS - Yes, assholedness is a word. I Googled it

[Fonz]

According to ICQ rocky is a 26 year-old female who looks kinda hot in her profile picture

[Greenguy]

I'm not going to post anymore emails, but I will say that Rocky has accepted my apology as well as offered up her own, no doubt for poking fun at my Gmail profile pic:

If nothing, at least I do look like an asshole in that pic

[JAI-LING]

I've started getting those emails. They want to pay by paxum. I think paxum is about to go under. lol.

[pc]

Originally Posted by JAI-LING

I've started getting those emails. They want to pay by paxum. I think paxum is about to go under. lol.

Paypal has those anti-fraud and money laundering rules policy when you exceed over $2500 in they are obligated to gather more information about you, your id scan, proof of address etc.

Paxum not.

JAI-LING, why Paxum is going under? , any inside trading leaks ?

[HowlingWulf]

Originally Posted by JAI-LING

I've started getting those emails. They want to pay by paxum. I think paxum is about to go under. lol.

That's odd they paid me via paypal.
What makes you think Paxum is about to fold?

[JAI-LING]

Hi
I was being more or less sarcastic, slightly.

I have been trying to set up an account with them and their customer service is pretty awful so far. I also follow AK's filelocker thread at the zoo from time to time and discovered they are processing for theft oriented filelockers. Hope that stops.

[JAI-LING]

Originally Posted by HowlingWulf

That's odd they paid me via paypal.
What makes you think Paxum is about to fold?

Yeah, I have been trying to get them to me via paypal but they only can do paxum, they say.