Blog Blaster Scam, revisited

Back in May I posted an article about a so-called "blog-blaster". The blaster in question was nothing more than a lot of hog-wash, nonsense and hooyie dreamed up by an individual wanting to part unsuspecting individuals from their money. She put up a site with a lot of facts about blogs in general and then twisted them around in clever ways to market a lie.

Of course, she was upset. Now, being the fair person that I am, I offered to write an honest retraction if she could give me one tiny shred of evidence that her claims had merit. None (facts) where ever forthcoming, although I did get a lot of email and attitude from her. Lol. Be that as it may, I only wrote the one article and then have watched the site being promoted via emails, some blogs, and via ffa and classified ad posts. I banned it at my traffic sites, so haven't seen it there much.

Now, the owner made an Anonymous appearance here at my blog, which is rather interesting. But, what really caught my attention was a post at ANOTHER BLOG regarding this scam and scammer so I could not resist making this follow up post to my orginal article:

OH that is RIDICULOUS! You are probably a competitor of them.
# posted by Anonymous : 10:56 PM

Hello Marayann, I mean anonymous...Anyone who knows anything about blogs knows your program is a scam! It is not possible to post to blogs automatically, it must be down manually by the publisher!

# posted by Kristen Pearce : 7:38 AM

Well, well, and well again. Here we are a few weeks later and THIS is what one of the now ex-customers of this so-called blog-blaster wrote on his own blog, The Dawg Blog at http://thedawgblog.com/:....Quick update on the blog submitter mess I got into. Getting a refund on the money I spent for referrals. Took a while, but good old credit card company is a joy to work with and will get my refund sometime in the next week. Now to wait for paypal to finish their part so I can get the money back I spent for getting the submitter. If you want to do business with that person with the blog submitter, that is up to you. Personally, I would never spend a dime with that person again. She cheated me, she lied to me, and I know she is doing the same to others and will continue doing so. So, if you buy something on the net, keep your reciepts, etc and if you need a refund, go back to the site you paid with (paypal, credit card site, clickbank) and ask for a refund. That said, I bought a product 2 weeks ago that was not what I thought it was. Withing 10 minutes of purchasing, I requested a refund. To date, 6 emails sent to the person, only reply I got was 'I need the reciept' which of course, not only had I sent him copies before, but I sent it again. No refund to date. So back to paypal and start the refund procedure all over again. It does help to keep copies of all emails you may send to the seller asking for a refund, plus copies of any replies you get from the seller...(Joe is the author of this post.)

Oh,and I am NOT a competitor. I know that claims of having a blog-blaster are, well, a lie. (As I already explained in the article.) Cherie

# posted by XtreamNet.org : 1:18 AM
Notice how some people have to remain anonymous? I am thinking that this is because they really know the truth when they see it and they also know that all others realize it as well. They are too cowardly to use their names for fear of reprisal. Yes, that anonymous person who claims the truth is ridiculous is none other than Maryanne Meyers, the owner of that scam she calls Blog Blaster. What's wrong Maryanne-nothing intelligent to say in defense of your scam to the people who you are ripping off? I rest my case...

I did some further investigation into this whole blog scheme and did find out this: there are some new blog scripts out now that allow for anonymous posts. There are one, possibly two blog sites that use this script accounting for perhaps a few hundred blogs all total. They are calling themselves marketing blogs. Here is the thing though regarding these scripts: the individual blog owner can TURN OFF THE anonymous post feature. And, guess what? They do! #1 reason: those annoying posts that have NOTHING what-so-ever to do with their blog!

Bloggers usually start one for a very specific reason. They might be a Country Music Fan, they might be in the Safety Equipment Business...gosh, I have seen a great looking blog recently done specifically for the new Star-Wars movie opening. David D. has a blog mainly promoting his movie with Robin Williams. This blog happens to be for marketing venues. We discuss marketing sites, venues, techniques and etc. The last thing I want is some anonymous bozo from some anonymous place on this planet (or not) posting some article about viagra or sex-orgies or something.

No one in their right mind wants that happening on their blog, so people end up turning off the anonymous post feature. This goes back to my orginal point about blogs: blogs are NOT safe lists. You want a safe list, you go get one. You want to use a safe list, you go join one. In the meantime, use your blog to post whatever YOU want but forget about blasting to "hundreds of thousands of blogs across the planet."

It just ain't gonna happen.
- Cherie