Originally Posted by spazlabz

Here is my SC story, I think everyone who has been around a long time has one...

A company I was working for had bought advertising on GFY and over at the Pond back when it was still pretty active and the butcher approached me on ICQ to advertise over on that forum. He stated he was the top wm forum on line with more activity that GFY and the pond combined. I could check Alexa and see the stats for his traffic....

We respectfully declined and he offered us a fantastic deal, you see one of his other advertisers had pulled their advertising or did not pay him... Not sure which but one of those, and he could offer us a great deal if we jumped on it like right now.

Again we respectfully declined and I thought that was the end of it.... Little did I know.

A few weeks later an affiliate of the program I was working for and a very good friend of mine were chatting and the topic of advertising on boards came up. He knew we were advertising on a couple of boards and I mentioned the other boards we had looked at as well. Then he tells me that the butcher had told him he should not promote our company because we were broke LOL he said the company could not afford a dollar for advertising etc etc....right, we were advertising on two of the biggest boards at the time but we could not afford ads on SC

Forever altered the way I viewed the guy and any business he does. Over the years I have been asked about SC and always recommend avoiding that forum. If you like it and you find it useful then by all means continue to visit there. You just won't see my nick darkening their doorstep and if someone does post there as spazlabz it is not me.