Of Relevance

…among other problems.

QVC has sued a blogger, Donn Edwards for posting what it considers to be defamatory posts around the ethics of their business practice. In short, QVC lures people to presentations with the promise of a prize (car, holiday, whatever). When you go to pick up your prize, you have to sit through a presentation, and are then sold some sort of timeshare.

It’s scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to ethics, and it sucks.

QVC is suing for over R450,000 because they claim that as a result of reading Edwards’ blog, the following happened:

• 59 people refused to attend the presentation. Since QVC has a conversion rate of 15% at R6,000 (each) profit, this works out to a loss of R 54,000.00

• 15 members refused to pay their management fees, amounting to a further R52,500 loss.

So, let’s see…..

One lonesome blog, that is mostly focused on writing about computer security, and whose audience is probably least likely to be talked into a QVC sale anyway, has cost QVC R106,000 pure profit.

So what do they do? They go and sue the blogger. And what do the rest of us do? We write and comment about it. More blogs write. Newspapers pick up the story. It gets bigger…and bigger…and BIGGER.

Oops.

Also, keep in mind that the QVC loss came despite the fact that Edwards removed his posts. How will these losses escalate for posts that are not removed? And are indexed by Google? For ever. And, umm, ….ever.

It’s actually kind of funny.

These incredible photos arrived in my inbox this morning. Don’t know who to attribute them to, but …WOW!!

I received this in my email box recently. Stinks of some sort of scam, but I cannot prove it. Some warning signs are:

1. Even if I wanted to help out, South Africa isn’t on the PayPal list either
2. The email from which this was sent is not the email to which they want you to reply
3. And the contact page of the company has been hacked!

Good day!

I m Cathryn Sneed from BelsysGroup, located in Republic of Belarus, Minsk.

Over the 10 years Belsys specializes in truck transportations across the countries of Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, and CIS through its owned and operated truck transportation units. Since 1993 the company is the member of the National Association of International Road Carriers.

We have a lot of payments every day and some clients want to pay via Paypal for our services.

We visited Paypal site and didn’t find Belarus in country list of registration form!

You can check it here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_registration-run

This way we can’t work with Paypal directly and need to recruit exterior co-workers.

BelsysGroup is pleased to offer you a position of Paypal Manager in our company. It’s a part-time job and we need fast reliable partner, who can help to solve this little problem with Paypal payments. You can do this job without leaving your main job. There are no any fees involved!

REQUIREMENTS:

+ Only English speaking employees!
+ Premier or Business PayPal account!
+ Ability to be on the connection during the working day (phone, email)!
+ Ability to make operations so fast, as we require!
+ Precisely follow all our instructions!
+ Western Union, Moneygram office in your city and must have little experience of work with this systems and Wire Transfers system also.
+ Possibility to visit a bank or cashing location any day of the week if needed.

More priority to candidates who have a Paypal CARD with high withdrawal limit!

SALARY

The Employee will be paid on a Commission basis, daily on the day when working operations be carried out, into Paypal or bank account nominated by the Employee. We’ll pay 5% from total value of every transactions. All additional charges (like WU, MG and other comission payments) will be paid by the Employer. You can earn up to 2000 EUR per month.

If you are interested in this offer, please, contact me for more information.
Please, send your offers and questions to e-mail: ****@gmail.com

With best regards,

Cathryn Sneed
http://www.transgroup.by