Dear Pierce Mattie Public Relations,
If you think that spamming blog comments is how a good PR firm does its business, you could not be more mistaken. Your methods are transparent, tired, and very bad business.
Please stop posing as thrilled customers of your clients' products and making phony comments on this blog - and any others which you may have identified as worthy targets of your fraud.
To our fellow beauty bloggers, you might want to ban the IP address 66.43.111.162 - and anyone calling themselves "BellAmore" - from commenting on your sites.
To Pierce Mattie clients: You are with a company which practices dishonestly and fraudulently with those you wish to purchase your products. How do you feel about that? What should your potential customers think about that?
What idiots. Will IP ban. Thanks for spreading the word. In the past, I've been comments spammed by people I can track down. I tend to call them at 3am to tell them how I feel about their hijacking a site I pay for to sell their crap.
Posted by: Amy Alkon | August 09, 2006 at 05:57 PM
Well, Michael Rogers, VP at Pierce Mattie seems to think that I owe them special consideration in this instance, emailing me: "While I understand your position, could you have at least contacted us
and gotten the real story about this before you lambasted us on your
site?"
The real story is what I posted above. I'm all ears to hear explanations (my recent favourite was blaming bad PR practice on 'interns'), but I don't feel I owe any favours to the people who abuse my blog and my readers.
If I am wrong - and it would be great news for all concerned if I am - then I will gladly take back my criticism and apologise. But my evidence says I'm right, and I've seen nothing from Pierce Mattie to contradict that.
Posted by: Jackie Danicki | August 09, 2006 at 06:11 PM