Monday, January 10, 2011
Not-So-Social Media Expert on Bonanza.com
Hey Folks,
It's been a while since I have written on this blog. My main blog on Wordpress http://theecochicboutique.wordpress.com takes up most of my time. I wish I was writing this article here to tout how great Bonanza is but, alas I am not. This will be my last post to this blog. The statement above in the title box no longer holds true.
It has come to light that yet another immature member of the Bonanza (formerly Bonanzle) staff has made yet another crude blunder. Bonanza has already lost many many good and reputable sellers for much less than what I am about to share with you here. But, you need to know. I DO NOT recommend that you set up your online selling operation on Bonanza. The management is full of immature, crude and ignorant people.
Here's the latest.
This is how a social media rep responds to a friend request?????
by Russ Kawecki on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 12:59pm.
How would you feel about this? While doing my usual thing on FB I see the person hired to do the social media duties on Bonanza has also posted on a thread I am on. I think cool! A Bonanza employee! I will request friendship. This is the message I am sent by the social media rep:
Jeremiah Arthur Mattocks09 January 2011 at 00:05
Subject: friend request?
Dear Russ Kawecki,
Imagine my surprise upon receiving a friend request from you, as you appear to be an animal; it was my understanding that animals other than Homo sapiens sapiens lacked the cognitive faculties social media requires. Either I have been grossly mistaken, or you are an unusually intelligent canine. A canine lives with me—he eats cat shit from the litter box. With your exceptional intelligence, I wonder, do you eat cat shit from the litter box when the opportunity is presented?
I do hope you’re the type of beast who accepts constructive criticism with grace. Please don’t think me rude for saying so, but we humans usually use Facebook for befriending people we know in person. I can’t remember meeting a genius dog, and I think that’s something I would remember. I understand why you might be seeking friendship outside of your peers, given your anomalous IQ, but I thought you might like to know.
Cheers,
Jeremy – a human
This is the very person hired to be our social media rep. Sweet huh?? Would one not think if they were hired for that type of position that they may have people sending friend requests and to have the god given brains to see if perhaps the requester was a part of the site you work on?
To say I am beyond offended is putting it mildly. If he said this crap to me who else that are buyers and sellers has he responded to in this manner?
Oh and the "Official Response" is weak and unbelievable!
Alex Berg: Hi everyone. I understand the frustration and anger, and I am not making light of this, but I want to try to clear the air on a few things.
Jeremy was using his personal Facebook account and was responding to a request from someone who he ...thought was an old friend and was playing along. I assure you that he would not have responded as such if he thought the communication was in any way Bonanza-related. He sent a very heart-felt apology directly to Sofy once he was made aware of the error.
Let me add my own apology here as well. Sofy, I’m sorry you were spoken to in such a fashion. This is not the manner in which we speak to people in the community. If I thought Jeremy was being malicious in any way towards anyone in the Bonanza community please believe me that swift action would be taken.
Did he make a mistake in assuming it was a friend? Yes. Should he have checked who it was first? Yes. Regrettably, he made an honest, and now very public, mistake. I can assure you he has learned a lot from this.
Thank you for your understanding. I hope you'll all give him, and Bonanza, the benefit of the doubt that this was a mistake and not a reflection of how Bonanza treats community members.
Alex Berg
Here is the link to read for yourself.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/russ-kawecki/this-is-how-a-social-media-rep-responds-to-a-friend-request/180531435300228?notif_t=like
Bye bye Bonanza! As soon as my own site is fully operational or hey maybe I'll "monetize" one of my blogs add a plug n play PayPal cart and say Cya NOW!!!!
THIS was indeed the LAST STRAW for me and several others who are very respected reputable sellers on Bozo. (Bonanza/Bonanzle) Whatever the hell they are calling themselves this year.
It's been a while since I have written on this blog. My main blog on Wordpress http://theecochicboutique.wordpress.com takes up most of my time. I wish I was writing this article here to tout how great Bonanza is but, alas I am not. This will be my last post to this blog. The statement above in the title box no longer holds true.
It has come to light that yet another immature member of the Bonanza (formerly Bonanzle) staff has made yet another crude blunder. Bonanza has already lost many many good and reputable sellers for much less than what I am about to share with you here. But, you need to know. I DO NOT recommend that you set up your online selling operation on Bonanza. The management is full of immature, crude and ignorant people.
Here's the latest.
This is how a social media rep responds to a friend request?????
by Russ Kawecki on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 12:59pm.
How would you feel about this? While doing my usual thing on FB I see the person hired to do the social media duties on Bonanza has also posted on a thread I am on. I think cool! A Bonanza employee! I will request friendship. This is the message I am sent by the social media rep:
Jeremiah Arthur Mattocks09 January 2011 at 00:05
Subject: friend request?
Dear Russ Kawecki,
Imagine my surprise upon receiving a friend request from you, as you appear to be an animal; it was my understanding that animals other than Homo sapiens sapiens lacked the cognitive faculties social media requires. Either I have been grossly mistaken, or you are an unusually intelligent canine. A canine lives with me—he eats cat shit from the litter box. With your exceptional intelligence, I wonder, do you eat cat shit from the litter box when the opportunity is presented?
I do hope you’re the type of beast who accepts constructive criticism with grace. Please don’t think me rude for saying so, but we humans usually use Facebook for befriending people we know in person. I can’t remember meeting a genius dog, and I think that’s something I would remember. I understand why you might be seeking friendship outside of your peers, given your anomalous IQ, but I thought you might like to know.
Cheers,
Jeremy – a human
This is the very person hired to be our social media rep. Sweet huh?? Would one not think if they were hired for that type of position that they may have people sending friend requests and to have the god given brains to see if perhaps the requester was a part of the site you work on?
To say I am beyond offended is putting it mildly. If he said this crap to me who else that are buyers and sellers has he responded to in this manner?
Oh and the "Official Response" is weak and unbelievable!
Alex Berg: Hi everyone. I understand the frustration and anger, and I am not making light of this, but I want to try to clear the air on a few things.
Jeremy was using his personal Facebook account and was responding to a request from someone who he ...thought was an old friend and was playing along. I assure you that he would not have responded as such if he thought the communication was in any way Bonanza-related. He sent a very heart-felt apology directly to Sofy once he was made aware of the error.
Let me add my own apology here as well. Sofy, I’m sorry you were spoken to in such a fashion. This is not the manner in which we speak to people in the community. If I thought Jeremy was being malicious in any way towards anyone in the Bonanza community please believe me that swift action would be taken.
Did he make a mistake in assuming it was a friend? Yes. Should he have checked who it was first? Yes. Regrettably, he made an honest, and now very public, mistake. I can assure you he has learned a lot from this.
Thank you for your understanding. I hope you'll all give him, and Bonanza, the benefit of the doubt that this was a mistake and not a reflection of how Bonanza treats community members.
Alex Berg
Here is the link to read for yourself.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/russ-kawecki/this-is-how-a-social-media-rep-responds-to-a-friend-request/180531435300228?notif_t=like
Bye bye Bonanza! As soon as my own site is fully operational or hey maybe I'll "monetize" one of my blogs add a plug n play PayPal cart and say Cya NOW!!!!
THIS was indeed the LAST STRAW for me and several others who are very respected reputable sellers on Bozo. (Bonanza/Bonanzle) Whatever the hell they are calling themselves this year.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
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