Quote Originally Posted by Lee View Post
Jacob,

This has nothing to do with any 'beef' with Cybersocket, GWW was also nominated for an award so, its not a case of sour grapes like someone else suggested.

The fact of the matter is, if it wasnt for these 'awards' nobody would know who Cybersocket was and, nobody would be talking about them.. Period.

Yes you have promoted them on the boards, for a start, you created this thread, also, as i recall, last year your sig had something along the lines of 'cybersocket winner' plastered in it and, i beleive you were even considering mentioning them on some banners you were going to get created.

What this comes down to is this, Cybersocket are running a business, they are trying to make money and, if they didnt have these awards ceremonies, they couldnt charge their sponsors for the parties how much they charge them and, i guarantee the amount they get in sponsorship is nowhere near what they pay for the parties.. Trust me on this... We actually returned funds to the sponsors of our GWB events because our sponsorships pulled in more money than we could physically spend in 3 hours.

Anyone who thinks that Cybersocket, Xbiz, ANV, or any other type of 'awards' organizer is doing it because they want people to feel good about their accomplishments quite frankly, are crazy. These companies have awards for one reason, to grow their business, either in traffic, branding or financially.

Regards,

Lee
What they are doing is called marketing and advertising. Just like you do! If we weren't here you couldn't charge $850 dollars for a one month ad. You do the same thing, so what! Tv commercials do the same thing! It's a business! How many thousands a month do you rack up from advertisers?

Regarding me promoting them, that's bullshit. I started this post as a congratulations to those that won, not to promote CyberSocket other then they are the one and only doing the awards at the moment.

I have the signature as advertisement that we won! Just like any other company that wins an award. Not for CyberSocket.

Are you sure you aren't upset with CyberSocket from the post Morgan Sommer wrote on TGB recently about you?

I don't remember last years nominations that were posted on GWW going through all of this.

You sure you don't have a beef with CyberSocket? Only thing that makes any sense out of your reaction to all of this.