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IM Ethics Pledge

by summerm
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Is there any sort of IM ethics pledge out there, or do i have to start something new?

For all the IMers who are appalled by the cheaters and spammers... appalled by bogus screenshots, fake testimonials, and deceptive copycat sites/emails (like a fake download.com or fake email from Microsoft). For all the IMers who want to avoid doing business with the snakes.

Anyone with me?
#ethics #pledge
  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    I pledge to sell you what ever you will buy for the greatest amount you will pay for it.

    How's that?

    Am I scamming or cheating you?

    Would love to know what you think.
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    • Profile picture of the author summerm
      Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

      I pledge to sell you what ever you will buy for the greatest amount you will pay for it.

      How's that?

      Am I scamming or cheating you?

      Would love to know what you think.
      Are you serious? That's not a scam, that's bread and butter capitalism
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    • Profile picture of the author Houcem Rihane
      Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

      I pledge to sell you what ever you will buy for the greatest amount you will pay for it.

      How's that?

      Am I scamming or cheating you?

      Would love to know what you think.
      This is definitely ok as long as you actually deliver it through the correct channel.

      How does this sound?

      Spammers most of the time sell what the buyer want (blue pills as an obvious example) but reach him through the wrong channel.

      They satisfy ONE person's need and disturb 100 000 others.

      Do whatever you would be comfortable with if you were on the other side. I think this is a good rule of thumb
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    • Profile picture of the author tryinhere
      Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

      I pledge to sell you what ever you will buy for the greatest amount you will pay for it.

      How's that?
      Am I scamming or cheating you?
      Would love to know what you think.
      I would like to know the difference between

      your scamming him or your cheating him ? are not they the same thing ? if so id say it's a deliberate play to confuse your customer. you first have asked him not only to buy your product but in the same line you have asked him to also price / sell it at his maximum expense level.

      you then confuse that with murmurings of confused words with the same meaning, so yes your cheating him and id call that a scam.
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    • Profile picture of the author DogScout
      Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

      I pledge to sell you what ever you will buy for the greatest amount you will pay for it.

      How's that?

      Am I scamming or cheating you?

      Would love to know what you think.
      That's not true. If you had rights to a product that you KNEW didn't work, either because it was crap or purposely designed to fail, (Yes, there are those floating around), I highly suspect you wouldn't even give it away let alone sell it at any price. (Unless I misread your character)
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    There is the Online Council of Business Professionals, otherwise known as i-cop. It's not for marketers per se, but for anyone with an online business that wants to display the i-cop badge and is willing to pledge to their code of ethics.

    Here's the site: Accredited Online Businesses: iCop™ = Online Business Ethics

    I am a member.
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    • Profile picture of the author summerm
      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      There is the Online Council of Business Professionals, otherwise known as i-cop. It's not for marketers per se, but for anyone with an online business that wants to display the i-cop badge and is willing to pledge to their code of ethics.

      Here's the site: Accredited Online Businesses: iCop™ = Online Business Ethics

      I am a member.
      Thanks for sharing the tip! I've never heard of them or noticed their badge anywhere.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheNightOwl
    ROTFLMFAO!

    Sorry.

    Who's gonna police that?

    There's "Honest eOnline" (or something like that) and a few others out there, all of which I take with a rather liberal grain of salt, frankly.

    And that little [BBB] logo... don't make me laugh.
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  • Profile picture of the author drmani
    Originally Posted by summerm View Post

    Is there any sort of IM ethics pledge out there, or do i have to start something new?

    Anyone with me?
    Shel Horowitz has this:

    Business Ethics Pledge

    And I published a 'manifesto' titled 'VALUE FIRST'

    VALUE FIRST - the Manifesto

    All success
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