Attention all offliners !!

by speedylikesKJ

Posted: 14 years ago 7 replies

OFFLINE MARKETING

OK here i guys i maybe offend some of you and i am very sorry for that but what happened with me is something which could happen to any of you, if you are getting your clients through groupon. i know many people are selling their WSOs about groupon marketing and i maybe offend them but what happened with me was a lesson for you all so i would like to share it ,with all my warrior crowd , READ here full story Lesson Learned Offline Marketing | KJ Rocker

NOTE: MODS i have already published it on my blog so i am giving link to my blog if you think its violation of WF policy please remove thread

#attention #oflfiners

imageworx

14 years ago

Thanks for the Heads up. I have thought about putting info on my site about Groupon and the disadvantages of running a campaign unprepared, but will take a closer look now on a work around to I can avoid this....

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speedylikesKJ

14 years ago

Originally Posted by imageworx

Best off luck with your future campaign and play safe use groupon but don`t violate trademarks , even in content of your emails , they were pissed off on me because of emails and some other PLR content

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mrcool2012

14 years ago

Yeah groupon take a lot of money from sellers. Did you see the bakeries in the UK that went broke because they sold cakes on groupon and lost money. Bit stupid really they should have done the sums earlier!!

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speedylikesKJ

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mrcool2012

my email content which i sent to businesses using groupon was something similar to your post and Groupon got pissed off

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shockwave 14 years ago

I'm no lawyer but I play one one T.V.....(just kidding).

Of course the laws in each country are different, but here in the U.S., we do have a little thing called free speech, so you may have a defense if you went to court. However, you're going to have to make sure you know what you're doing.

Anyway, here's something I found that seems to make sense of all this. Based on the info below, it looks like the bottom line is they know they will win if you are the "little guy". Just by sending you a threatening letter, they know they will force you to shut up. Otherwise, you may have to take a chance and roll the dice in court.

Check out this explanation ----------------

What it is
The basic idea of defamation law is simple. It is an attempt to balance the private right to protect one's reputation with the public right to freedom of speech. Defamation law allows people to sue those who say or publish false and malicious comments.

There are two types of defamation.

* Oral defamation -- called slander -- for example comments or stories told at a meeting or party.

* Published defamation -- called libel -- for example a newspaper article or television broadcast. Pictures as well as words can be libellous.

Anything that injures a person's reputation can be defamatory. If a comment brings a person into contempt, disrepute or ridicule, it is likely to be defamatory.

* You tell your friends that the boss is unfair. That's slander of the boss.

* You write a letter to the newspaper saying a politician is corrupt. That's libel of the politician, even if it's not published.

* You say on television that a building was badly designed. That's libel due to the imputation that the architect is professionally incompetent, even if you didn't mention any names.

* You sell a book that contains defamatory material. That's spreading of a defamation.
The fact is, nearly everyone makes defamatory statements almost every day. Only very rarely does someone use the law of defamation against such statements.

Defences

When threatened with a defamation suit, most people focus on whether or not something is defamatory. But there is another, more useful way to look at it. The important question is whether you have a right to say it. If you do, you have a legal defence.

If someone sues you because you made a defamatory statement, you can defend your speech or writing on various grounds. There are three main types of defence:

* what you said was true;
* you had a duty to provide information;
* you were expressing an opinion.
For example:
* You can defend yourself on the grounds that what you said is true.
* If you have a duty to make a statement, you may be protected under the defence of "qualified privilege." For example, if you are a teacher and make a comment about a student to the student's parents -- for example, that the student has been naughty -- a defamation action can only succeed if they can prove you were malicious. You are not protected if you comment about the student in the media.
* If you are expressing an opinion, for example on a film or restaurant, then you may be protected by the defence of "comment" or "fair comment," if the facts in your statement were reasonably accurate.

What can happen

* You can be threatened with a defamation suit. You might receive a letter saying that unless you retract a statement, you will be sued. There are numerous threats of defamation. Most of them are just bluffs; nothing happens. Even so, often a threat is enough to deter someone from speaking out, or enough to make them publish a retraction.
* Proceedings for defamation may be commenced against you. This is the first step in beginning a defamation action. Statements of claim, writs or summons shouldn't be ignored. If you receive one, you should seek legal advice.
* The defamation case can go to court, with a hearing before a judge or jury. However, the majority of cases are abandoned or settled. Settlements sometimes include a published apology, sometimes no apology, sometimes a payment, sometimes no payment. Only a small fraction of cases goes to court.
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Rus Sells

14 years ago

So, you are saying that some ones WSO' contained content that was construed by Groupon as copyright infringement. I'm not surprised one bit this stuff was in some one's wso. Consider reporting this wso seller for selling materials that encourage the infringement of other people copyrights.

So has the party making the claim agreed to drop the legal fees?