SHOPTTOROPBUSH.COM SITE SPONSORED BY BARNES & NOBLE, AMAZON.COM, OFFICE DEPOT and others

http://www.shoptodropbush.com ^ | Oct 20, 2003 | EDINVA

[EDINVA]

Earlier I saw a post about a group that was raising money from companies which would donate to their cause. shoptodropbush.com. Their stated goal is to raise funds for the DNC, the eventual Democrat candidate for POTUS, and "movingon.org"

Amazingly, among its sponsors listed were Amazon.con, Barnes & Noble, Office Depot, and somewhat ironically the Worldwide Cigar Club. Amazon includes Target and Toys R Us. Unlike the site's sponsors who are of the ilk to continuously condemn our 'greedy corporate culture,' I admire corporate community outreach, but don't appreciate donations of this sort by companies that get a LOT of my money.

Thought FReepers would have an interest

[Chad Fairbanks]

Pssst! Do a search - this was hashed over all morning, and it turns out the guy running the site is misusing the advertiser link programs, and the companies are not happy about it... ;0)

[mhking]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004357/posts

[eddie willers]

turns out the guy running the site is misusing the advertiser link programs, and the companies are not happy about it...

Yeah...but Dell Computers is still linked. They had better drop it soon.

[boycott]

Damn, I was going to Office Depot later this week. I called Office Depot earlier today to see if they had some equipment I've been needing. I bet I can find it elsewhere.

[NeoCaveman]

SHOPTTOROPBUSH.COM SITE SPONSORED BY BARNES & NOBLE, AMAZON.COM, OFFICE DEPOT and others TROP BUSH? How does one do this?

Just funnin ya

[mhking]

As I mentioned on the original thread, this goon is using affiliate marketing companies to grab links to companies across the board. Until the affiliate marketing firms are notified that this moron is violating their terms of service by insisting that the affiliated retailers are "donating" to his bogus cause, he will continue to grab links from other companies as individual companies pull his plug.

Case in point - he has now added Target to his list of retailers. He will continue to add companies in this fashion until his source (the affiliate firms) are contacted and pull any association with him.

[EDINVA]

yeah, I don't spell to gud

[Eldorado431]

Thank You,, Excellent information.

[JSteff]

So is Barnes and Noble.

[xm177e2]

Michael Dell is a strong supporter of gun rights. People have lied about his company before, I would wait a while to see if this is true.

[concerned about politics]

So is Barnes and Noble.

We homeschool, and have an account there for our books. I'll call in my outrage first thing in the moring. It's 11:44 PM here now. They're closed.

I'll pass it around to the NY State homeschool group, which is conservative, of course.

[Let's Roll]

They are all still listed on his page.

B&N, Amazon, Office Depot, Dell

Jeff Bezos at Amazon is definitely a FOB.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

They redid the site earlier today and office depot was
not on it.

They are now back on it.

I don't know what to make of this.

[ChemistCat]

Sounds like someone using the internet as a way to get revenge on companies they don't like and aPresident they don't like, at the same time.

Come on folks, don't fall for this. There is no way these companies would really do that.

[kancel]

Anyone with a website can sign up to be an affiliate. Anyone one of us with websites that allow advertising (somtimes the free webspace from through an ISP disallows this) could do the exact same thing and donate it to Bush or the RNC etc...

This does not mean any of these companies are anti-Bush (nor would their dropping his affiliation mean they are Pro-Bush so much as they are PR-smart.)

The best way to fight this would be to open up competeing sites donating to your individual causes (or for your own profit.) Anyone who has the time, knowledge (basic HTML) an webspace can do it. I have often wondered why JimRob doesn't sign up for a few to help fundraise (though sometimes we might be his obstacle.)

Any of you who run pages (or know the person who does) for your homeschool groups, scout troops, schools or whatever can sign up for these affiliate programs. Usually the only restricitons are on porn sites, or sites that "hate" or encourage illegal activity. And obviously individuals can have sites.

Just don't shop through this guys links (and in fact if you did click a link you need to find a site you would like to support and click a link from them as some stores use cookies to give credit for up to 30 days.)Whenever you online shop either go through a site you DO want to support or go directly to the site itself.

[smoothsailing]

Bogus.

The anti crowd pull their hair out in their attempts to divide us.

See them for what they are.

That will hasten their demise.

[sc2_ct]

It was started by a DUer who used the following information to register the domain name:

Michael Sanger
6600 Potomac Avenue
B-1
Alexandria, VA 22307

If anyone wants to email him and talk some sense into the poor boy, you can do so at msanger@aol.com, michael@shoptodropbush.com or anybodybutbush@vortexhost.com. Alternately, you can give him a call at (703)768-8541.

He runs another site as well:

http://www.anybodybutbush.info/

He gloats about it, and indicates that he actually intended to donate it to DU itself, not the DNC in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=562811

[Texaggie79]

I work at office depot :-(

[Texaggie79]

Any webmaster knows that you can get links for many many sites that you get paid for hits off of. It is quite easy to get them and there is no real investigation into who you are to get them.

Look at it this way, you have a website, you want people to come, you will pay others to get people to come, so you pay them pennies a hit and give out free ad links to whoever wants them....