Posted on 08/06/2012 7:31:35 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Last week’s Chick-fil-A appreciation day must have been painful to watch for David Friend the CEO that runs Carbonite a computer file backup service that was once the king of its industry.
Watching how well a business that is favored by the Right can do must have ground salt into the self- inflicted wound that is still plaguing Carbonite today.
On Saturday March 3, David Friend, the breast beating fool who is the CEO of Carbonite, decided he could not even wait until the following Monday to drop his company’s advertising relationship with Rush Limbaugh.
Bleating about Limbaugh having correctly characterized a young woman who wanted a Catholic university to pay for her contraception devices, Friend cited a desire for a “more civilized public discourse” as the reason for his action.
The truth was that Carbonite and a few other foolish advertisers were convinced to drop Limbaugh by Media Matters a George Soros operation dedicated to destroying conservative talk radio in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular.
Carbonite was played just as the rest of them were played. Now that a full calendar quarter has past, the extent to which Carbonite was played can be more accurately assessed.
While Chick-fil-A was gaining record breaking sales merely because its CEO Dan Cathy has stood for one man to one woman marriage, Carbonite was suffering a substantial decrease in sales.
What is worse is that in its type of business customers make a decision that stands for a year or more. Nothing will bring back the business Carbonite has lost.
“has sent these two traveling in opposite directions. Limbaugh’s numbers are higher than ever and the per share price of Carbonite stock has fallen 15%....
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Zipcar is quite the rip-off, in my opinion.
They are expanding now on to universities, and allowing any driver over 21. That is a huge, HUGE, liability risk.
I wouldn’t get near this company with a 10 foot pole.
And local car rental companies are far cheaper, in almost every circumstance.
Liberals on have what the government buys for them. NPR will never generate the amount of business lost.
It’s going to get worse for Carbonite.
I bet there were maany - like me - with two year contracts that could not be refunded. My subscriptions runs out in January. I won’t be reupping.
David Friend now knows the fate of a ‘Useful Idiot’.
Pretty sure you are the exception to the rule.
Glad you didn’t get one of their normal clunkers.
Saw a 1T portable external HD for 80 bucks at Wally-World yesterday.
Bump
They had repeatedly emailed me with offers to re-up. I don’t know if it stopped ,I just identified Carbonite as spam and no more Carbonite..
This brings a huge smile to my face. As someone who has started several businesses, I would usually never wish ill-will on an entrepreneur.
However, in Carbonite's case I will gladly make an exception...and was happy to tell them so, particularly with buying a brand new PC and a physical backup drive.
Western Digital My Book 2TB Essential USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive, WDBACW0020HBKSN
I am up for renewal in 2weeks.
Already told Carbonite I am dropping them.
I am up for renewal in 2weeks.
Already told Carbonite I am dropping them.
Did you tell them why? That's the icing on the cake.
Did you get a refund? I have about 15 months left on my account and want to switch to Mozy (only because my brother works for the company that created it).
I didn’t even ask, just told them I wasn’t renewing.
I did tell them why.
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