adamo
 

so adamo ads sends me a message to vote for them at ynot for 2x 10 euro bonus after you send screenshot, i did this and send the screenshot, after a few days if trying to contact them i hear the are backing out of the deal, wow they tricked me good.

Bastards ...

Now that you posted on GFY you'll get your bonus ...lol

buying awards, awesome.

ynot ban them.

It is not the first time.

wow so lame of them

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Haven't decided yet if its more funny or sad...:upsidedow

Who says you cant buy votes

I think the sad thing is them not wanting to pay ?20

I had a really interesting chat with Jay from YNOT about two weeks ago, mainly him asking if we care about awards or ask our clients to vote for us and my answer was very simple: NO.

Adamo are not the first company who have offered compensation for voting for them, they will not be the last company to do so either. It is why awards are not very meaningful these days.

Being nominated is almost better than winning, at least when you are nominated it means some people thought enough about you as a company to put your name down and you didn't have to beg/pay/scam votes just to get your name in a newsletter and a $50 trophy to put in your office.

Well said.

I had a similar conversation with him.

I think the awards can be meaningful, companies and people that put together great marketing programs to support their nomination runs and such. The problem is so much of it is a popularity contest and things like buying votes makes the whole process dubious at best.

+1 to this comment! :2 cents:

At this stage it isn't even a popularity contest tho, not when people are offering traffic coupons, higher payouts or other things for their votes. If it were a straight popularity contest then the award would hold more weight and mean something because genuinely the winner is the best.

Also, a very well known company has used fiverr and other crowd sourcing style products to win awards before, I laughed very hard when I heard about it.

wow wow seems a lot of such stories gonna be relieved in future couple of weeks)

Thats suck very bad

I won a GFY award once (albeit never actually received it). I made exactly $0 extra over the course of the next year from it :)

And we still don't know what you do here...

What is it you are good at again?

:thumbsup