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  • #32
    salamanca22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭salamanca22


    Trent Houseboat wrote: »
    I don't think most people complaining care about GearBest, the care about the change in attitude from boards.ie and to how some people who merely mentioned GearBest in the past were treated so harshly.

    This exactly.

    I am all for boards making money but when ethics are thrown out the window like this then I have to think to myself what has boards become.


  • #33
    Frynge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    Will the gear best reps end up going the way of the reps with the food pyramid.


  • #34
    Trent Houseboat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Trent Houseboat


    That safe food thread is a classic. People in marketing trying to discuss nutrition with people who knew about nutrition.
    From what I remember the powers that be just expunged all the criticism into a separate (but equal) thread and surprisingly nobody in the spin-off thread won the prize.


  • #35
    upandcumming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭upandcumming


    gordongekko wrote: »
    Wow !!!!!! over reaction alert
    Dav wrote: »
    There are barely words to express how vile and despicable I think someone like you is, so don't ever come back.

    Is that an overreaction?


  • #36
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,220 ✭✭✭maximoose


    However Gearbest were at one point nefariously using members here to screw other people on this very forum. Loads of people got banned (some harshly) and a hard line was taken.

    I vaguely remember shill threads and spammers being called out, but this all sounds mad. What exactly happened?


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  • #37
    sunny2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭sunny2004


    At the end of the day Boards.ie is a business, and its a FREE service, but some of its actions seem to be handled oddly.
    I have no issue with GearBest as I never came across any of the posts that caused the problem but like many I was fully aware of the issues. I do think the PR part of boards.ie is in need of a rethink.

    THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS THIS WILL ALL BLOW OVER HA~HA


  • #38
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    upandcumming wrote: »
    Is that an overreaction?

    Yes


  • #39
    justsomebloke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,406 ✭✭✭✭justsomebloke


    Given the venom with which he delivered his orginial post I'm surprised Dav isn't the one explaining why they have been let back in.

    But this just shows how money talks on the site now. Also have the user who were banned given notice of how much they will have to pay to be allowed back on the site?


  • #40
    brightkane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭brightkane


    The irony of it all....

    Users banned for promoting products from the site and being Shills.

    Site and people branded the lowest of the low.

    Site sees the amount of interest and sales in ireland as a result of people promoting the product on bargain alerts.

    Site contacts boards to get a sub forum.

    Boards says show me the money, you lowest of the low for sending your shills here....


  • #41
    justsomebloke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,406 ✭✭✭✭justsomebloke


    brightkane wrote: »
    The irony of it all....

    Users banned for promoting products from the site and being Shills.

    Site and people branded the lowest of the low.

    Site sees the amount of interest and sales in ireland as a result of people promoting the product on bargain alerts.

    Site contacts boards to get a sub forum.

    Boards says show me the money, you lowest of the low for sending your shills here....

    I'd say it was more to get rid of the bad press from the net then missing out on sales. So I'd say they are locked into a period of which they have to remain on then site after which point they will disappear


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  • #42
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭flutered


    sunny2004 wrote: »
    At the end of the day Boards.ie is a business, and its a FREE service, but some of its actions seem to be handled oddly.
    I have no issue with GearBest as I never came across any of the posts that caused the problem but like many I was fully aware of the issues. I do think the PR part of boards.ie is in need of a rethink.

    THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS THIS WILL ALL BLOW OVER HA~HA
    kinda like the trousering party, bring in something the publick dont like, the hope it will blow over with the help of their socks on social media, it was bad enough when adverts went pay as you go, it seems boards can change its name to prossies


  • #43
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    This reminds me of the old days of certain nightclubs where bouncers would come down like a ton of bricks on anyone they caught dealing..unless they were getting a cut of the takings.


  • #44
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,859 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    sunny2004 wrote: »
    At the end of the day Boards.ie is a business, and its a FREE service, but some of its actions seem to be handled oddly.
    I have no issue with GearBest as I never came across any of the posts that caused the problem but like many I was fully aware of the issues. I do think the PR part of boards.ie is in need of a rethink.

    THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS THIS WILL ALL BLOW OVER HA~HA

    If you are not paying for the product, you are the product, boards.ie make money from posters using the forum


  • #45
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    sunny2004 wrote: »
    At the end of the day Boards.ie is a business, and its a FREE service,


    As a wise man once said..if a product is free its because YOU are the product :D


  • #46
    Jamie Greasy Shuffleboard
    Posts: 8,317 ✭✭✭ Jamie Greasy Shuffleboard


    Just to point out as well that Gearbest are horrendous to deal with. I was forced to use them recently for a custom torch groupbuy on another website. I ordered torches in separate orders and paid extra for tracking numbers for each. Both items were "sent out", disappeared for a month with the tracking info non-existant and then were suddenly sent out again (they were returned for some reason) by NL post.

    Just to re-iterate my third and fourth orders of all time with them disappeared for a month. For the fourth order I knew it had gone missing after my experiences with the third. I contacted them two weeks beforehand and told them to refund me when it came back to them and not to send it out again. What did they do? The ****w1ts sent it out again to me.

    They're bloody idiots. If you have a problem you can't get a person on live chat. You have to use some god-awful support forum that requires you to re-login every refresh and complete a captcha as well.


  • #47
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,305 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Yeah, I don't like this at all..

    .. just give them a Talk To forum like all other businesses - what gives them a right to have a forum in the community driven (and always has been) Bargain Alerts.

    Spamming their own forum with deals.. and the place will be a ghost town anyways.

    While I buy off Gearbest occasionally, this decision just goes strangely against the norm for Boards.ie and I can't see a good outcome.

    In summary - leave Bargain Alerts to the users!


  • #48
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    sunny2004 wrote: »
    At the end of the day Boards.ie is a business, and its a FREE service, but some of its actions seem to be handled oddly.
    I have no issue with GearBest as I never came across any of the posts that caused the problem but like many I was fully aware of the issues. I do think the PR part of boards.ie is in need of a rethink.

    THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS THIS WILL ALL BLOW OVER HA~HA

    The thing is, if boards stopped being free, and charged I wouldn't hesitate to pay it.


  • #49
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,804 ✭✭✭degsie


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    The thing is, if boards stopped being free, and charged I wouldn't hesitate to pay it.

    Marketing folk must love you :p


  • #50
    UsedToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭UsedToWait


    I wonder how long before Boards starts expunging negative comments about Gearbest from the archive, and banning negative feedback for these low-down shills our wonderful Sponsors


  • #51
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    degsie wrote: »
    Marketing folk must love you :p

    Haha, Why ?


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  • #52
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,473 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    The thing is, if boards stopped being free, and charged I wouldn't hesitate to pay it.

    You know you can pay if you want right? If everyone did then there might be less advertising.
    If it was obligatory to pay the place would die in a matter of days though.


  • #53
    UsedToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭UsedToWait


    This move is symptomatic of what has been apparent for quite a while now..

    While Boards claims to listen to the members and take feedback on board, whoever is at the helm doesn't value this feedback at all.

    Head Office's 'vision' - be it the category reorganisation, the horrific new design, or the u-turn on Gearbest will be driven through regardless.


  • #54
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,252 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    The thing is, if boards stopped being free, and charged I wouldn't hesitate to pay it.


    I already pay :D


  • #55
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    UsedToWait wrote: »
    I wonder how long before Boards starts expunging negative comments about Gearbest from the archive, and banning negative feedback for these low-down shills our wonderful Sponsors

    They already have started to delete negative comments with Dav's rant being removed. I take it that going down the line that negative comments will be "administered" as well. TBH this course of action doesn't surprise me at all. It is a complete and utter U-Turn and really calls into question the base ethics of the management of this site. Whilst it is a "free site" the only reason it does exist is because of us the users and content generators which make up this community. This decision really shows the management of the site as having little or no actual respect for the user base.

    If this is a sponsored forum I agree with all the others that have said that the rightful place for them is in the Talk to forums and not with a sub forum off bargain alerts. Does this mean that in future we will have sponsored political parties forums off the politics forum, that Beer manufacturers will get one off the Beer & Wine & Spirits forum. This action really calls to question the very integrity of Boards.ie as an independent user led community. This kind of flip flopping added with ham fisted attempts at "groovy" user interfaces will kill this site rapidly.


  • #56
    d31b0y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭d31b0y


    The amount of vitriol aimed at users shilling for gearbest only for boards.ie to turn around and get into bed with the company really speaks volumes in my opinion.


  • #57
    Corholio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    Of all the companies I imagined Boards getting into bed with, Gearbest couldn't have been any further down the list. One of those things that you read and you're not sure if it's April 1st.

    Disappointing considering what went on before and pretty inexplicable to be honest.


  • #58
    UsedToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭UsedToWait


    I look forward to Dav's autobiography when he eventually retires from Boards..
    I get the feeling he has been shafted here by someone with pound signs in their eyes..


  • #59
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,073 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    UsedToWait wrote: »
    I look forward to Dav's autobiography when he eventually retires from Boards..
    I get the feeling he has been shafted here by someone with pound signs in their eyes..



    Swimming in depth. Probably sell their grannies at this stage.


  • #60
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,473 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    kneemos wrote: »
    Swimming in depth. Probably sell their grannies at this stage.

    That is deep man ;)


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  • #61
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,252 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    That is deep man ;)
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kneemos viewpost.gif
    Swimming in depth. Probably sell their grannies at this stage.

    That is deep man wink.png
    Indeed...typical of the average boards user :D.. I cant comment on those below average through:rolleyes:


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