Comments on: Quechup with a Side of Spam http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/ Fri, 25 May 2012 12:36:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Curious297 http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63849 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:52:48 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/05/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63849 Did a google search and found so many bad comments about this site. I also joined but didn’t let them check my address book but what I see is I they wont even let a standard member reply to a premium member so what are the premium members paying for? I also got a lot of emails from the same person and when I tried to read my emails I got this Automated reply:

” Free membership entitles you to read unlimited ‘quick messages’ and 1 normal message a day (GMT time). To read and send unlimited messages please upgrade to premium membership.”

I mean, c’on, 1 message per day!!

People who pay for membership can only talk with other members even though you have paid for the service. Now you know why the “non premium” members you write to cannot answer or reply. Premium members should be able to contact anyone on the site regardless of membership level.

I am canceling my membership, I hate sites that try to bring the community together when they only looking for a quick buck!

]]> By: Logo designer http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63848 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:57:07 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/05/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63848 I had a bunch of invite e-mails this autumn from people whom I could never suspect to invite me to such network.
So, now the mystery is solved.
I wonder did they thought about consequences and community reaction to this dirty trick?

]]> By: Shelli’s Sentiments http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63847 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:17:41 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/05/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63847 [...] Quechup With A Side of Spam DC Metro Moms Blog [...]

]]> By: Matthew Cornell http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63846 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:35:51 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/05/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63846 I’ve had a handful of these, but I did something that turned out to be smart. When the first one came, I emailed the person who supposedly sent it and asked what the site was, what it’s good for, and how it relates to competing ones (e.g., LinkedIn). He wrote back right away – “Don’t do it! It’s insidious SPAM and caught me.”

In addition, from a networking perspective, it was a great excuse to maintain a little human contact. So two plusses!

]]> By: Gary Valan http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63845 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:00:09 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/05/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63845 All your points are well made but when a respected blogger sends out an invite its hard not to sign up, especially if one has spent a very long day working virtually non-stop. I assumed he had done his homework. In any case here’s my somewhat long note via the Quechup mail system ( I apologize in advance to the other readers of this site for boring them). Also I just found a couple of direct emails of the president and a VP from the Mashable site and I plan to spam them”

“Guys

I was invited by a blogging acquaintance to join your site.

Sadly I did without doing proper due diligence and the iDate owners, marketing geniuses and your software designers, a bunch of bottom feeders-let me be polite and not express my feelings, have serious screwed me over either intentionally or inadvertently. First of all I assumed it was some sort of a social networking site and Quechup turned out to be another spam engine. The fact that I was asked a bunch of personal details should have set off alarm bells but having worked non-stop for 18+ hours I signed on.

I signed up as a heterosexual and most heteros typically would like to meet a WOMAN, unless you play for both teams, which I don’t. So why the heck would you all send it to my entire freaking gmail email list where I have all my professional/business colleagues. And you did not seek my permission either.

This is absolutely unacceptable and if you do not remove my name from your membership rolls and DELETE ALL MY contacts I will inform (whether or not they pay any attention to my email) all the major web 2.0 software review sites including Techcrunch, Gigaom and other even more nastier review sites – its your call. I will do this by Friday Sept 7th unless you do as I ask and send me mail to confirm that you have deleted my name and my gmail contacts from your database.

Gary Valan”

PS: In case if more of you want to spam these idiots: According to their website, http://www.idatecorp.com, their CEO is Mark Finch and can be contacted at mark@idatecorp.com. Glen Finch is the Vice President and can be contacted at glen@idatecorp.com. I’ll add some joy to their lives in a couple of minutes…

]]> By: Labnotes » Rounded Corners - 142 (If you can't beat them ...) http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63844 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:57:31 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/05/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63844 [...] the senders: Don’t sweat it. Not your fault Quechup decided to misappropriate your address [...]

]]> By: Brendan http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63843 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:22:01 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/05/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63843 I think Quechup is directed to idiots. Anyone also received mails from other members? I did, but I”m 100% sure that they’re fake.

]]> By: cwl http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63842 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:00:01 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/05/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63842 Ummm, am I the only one who thinks that Quechup is just one big scheme to harvest email addresses for the purposes of spamming the world?

]]> By: Karen (Pediascribe) http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63841 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:57:40 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/05/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63841 I was caught by the whole Quechup thing this weekend. Thinking “how could I be so stupid and get caught by this,” I created a dummy yahoo email address and went through the sign up again to figure out what I missed.

Here’s a key line that was in the disclaimer (I copied it for future reference) :

Complete your
account details below & we’ll check your contacts for
matches on Quechup so you can choose who to invite to
your Friends Network and invite non Quechup members to
join you.

Do you see that part there……”SO YOU CAN CHOOSE WHO TO INVITE…..”

I had no choice. They invited everyone!
It’s dirty and underhanded what they did this weekend. The lesson I learned was before I join anything I should Google Blog Search it.

]]> By: the head lemur http://gigaom.com/collaboration/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63840 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:17:01 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/05/quechup-with-a-side-of-spam/#comment-63840 Quechup The Clap of FaceBook
http://www.ravinglunacy.org/index.php/2007/09/05/quechup-the-clap-of-facebook/

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