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I can appreciate their ability to think outside the box, but when you are using your competitor's resources to promote your company you might be crossing a line
by acangiano 14y ago
I can appreciate their ability to think outside the box, but when you are using your competitor's resources to promote your company you might be crossing a line. It's a subjective line of course, but I personally find it unprofessional and makes me suspicious about the methods used by such a company to obtain those 500,000 views in a weekend. I'm not anti-marketing, on the contrary I'm very much pro marketing. But what they did is not far from the offline equivalent of spamming your competitor email list.
- ezl 14y agoi wouldn't claim that it's not crossing a line of some sort (professional vs non-professional). i tend to like aggressive moves by startups. i also thought wepay freezing cash i huge ice blocks and dumping it at a paypal meet was pretty clever. sometimes startups do unprofessional things. they're certainly not always justifiable, and things would become a shitshow really fast if everyone did them all the time, but i can't help but smile when i see occasional transgressions when the person who is hurt is Goliath.
- wisty 14y agoI guess people were kinder to wepay because the hive-mind was pissed-off at ebay at the time (and still kind of is).