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The funny part, as TC mentions, is that PayPal pulled a similar guerrilla marketing stunt in its early days by paying people to wear PayPal t-shirts at an eBay
by bobf 16y ago
The funny part, as TC mentions, is that PayPal pulled a similar guerrilla marketing stunt in its early days by paying people to wear PayPal t-shirts at an eBay conference. Could we say... revenge is a dish best served cold?
- seltzered 16y ago> Could we say... revenge is a dish best served cold? ...and resolved by acquisitions? Paypal is owned by eBay if I recall correctly, and one of WePay's investors is Max Levchin, former CTO of PayPal
- jswinghammer 16y agoThis wouldn't be revenge unless eBay did which of course wouldn't make any sense. This more of a "taste of your medicine" sort of situation.
- bobf 16y agoThat's very true, but "taste of your own medicine" and frozen/cold didn't have a funny punch line. However, it could be considered revenge by proxy -- WePay assisting with consumers' revenge against PayPal for freezing accounts.
- mlinsey 16y agoI think you mean PayPal pulled a similar guerilla marketing stunt, unless the people wearing the t-shirts were trained monkeys. ;)
- hugh3 16y agoIf you want to be nitpicky, gorillas aren't monkeys. edit: Really, people? You modded me up to 17 for making a nitpick about simian taxonomy?
- superjared 16y agoYou forget your place, sir.
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- JoeCortopassi 16y ago"Really, people? You modded me up to 17 for making a nitpick about simian taxonomy?" If it makes you feel better, I gave you a point just for that comment...
- shabda 16y agoOok, ook.
- shabda 16y ago[Edit: Erm its a reference to the librarian of unseen university from Terry Prattchet, an Urang-utan which attack people who mistake him for a monkey.]
- kragen 16y agoYes. If you look at my recent comment history, you'll see that, by far, the most effective strategy I've found for getting comments with lots of upvotes is to find a factual error in somebody else's comment and correct it in a clear and unambiguous fashion; and within that constraint, the shorter the better. You'll see that I got a comment consisting entirely of "[citation needed]" voted up to 7. Long comments have essentially no chance of being voted up significantly. Other things that have very little chance: speculations about the implications of something, wild and surprising analogies, speculation on others' motives, advocacy of norms. This is really unfortunate, because those are the comments I most value reading. I really get no value, beyond a little humor, from reading that gorillas aren't monkeys, since I already know that.
- mlinsey 16y agoDepends on who you are. If you look at my comment history, you'll find several very long comments with many, many upvotes. On the other hand, when I tried to do the "quick one line correction" thing in this thread, it didn't turn out too well! (though at least it was a nice setup for hugh3)
- bobf 16y agoYou mean guerrilla (thanks, edited the original).
- RobertL 16y agoI checked out their site and services. Not all that impressive. Some useful but very basic stuff. Not seeing where they can even be classified as competition to PayPal.
- jscore 16y agoMore like an unprovoked incident. eBay and PayPal were involved in a serious war back then.
- trickjarrett 16y agoWePay wants to be in a serious war with Paypal.