Sunday, October 06, 2013

EZ Sunday


Mr Jinx is enjoying his restful spot on the Dining Room table.
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Doing a bit of venting. I have to say it's been with a bit of a surprise that we were contacted by a company to do a product review. It was something we viewed as an honored and we've only had a handful of opportunities. Well apparently we didn't do it "right". C***Y.com( formerly MRC***Y) we've been told was not happy with the way we 'reviewed' their product or their website. I guess we didn't highlight the company strongly enough and oops we said the name wrong too. Yes MOUSES we did. Well, we are not really into doing product reviews or giveaways or any of that. We are small fries in a big Mac world. So, we told C***Y.com to take their future products elsewhere. It made us feel bad when that is not ever our purpose here. We won't ever be doing business with C***Y.com again. There are too many other places if I need to order online from.
OK off soapbox now...
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Back to your EZ!

36 comments:

  1. Mr. Jinx is soooo handsome! Precious is fanning herself furiously. MOL!

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  2. Mr. Jinx you look quite cool as a cucumber. Given what we've heard from some of the folks online on Facebook, sometimes companies get like that. We are sorry you had to go through that because we thought you had a very nice review. Too bad for them. I think that when you are asked to do a review, you review as you want. And that's that. You could have said they were lousy all around.

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  3. We're adding to our comment that the complaints haven't been specific to this company or any other company, but more of an attitude of reviewers trying to dictate how you write a review--to the point that it's like, um maybe you're trying to do a guest post rather than having me review?

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  4. Wow, that's such a shame that they were mean about it!

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  5. I love your portrait today, Mr. Jinx!

    That is too bad the company had problems with your review. I thought it was pretty good, even if you did use the old name - at least you got the link right. Why should they complain, since you did not even get paid? A couple pouches of food isn't really payment - they are less than a dollar a pouch retail.

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  6. Such a great photo of your, Mr. Jinx.

    RE: the review: Ditto--You ought to be free to write it as you please, IMO.

    I get a lot of these unsolicited emails and they all bug the heck out of me. Companies are mining for email, essentially spamming everyone, and then hooking you in to free advertising. It's a win for them all round, so they don't have a right to complain about it.

    I don't even have my/our email visible anymore and I'm still contained daily.

    All of it gets marked at spam at my end, but it sure doesn't stop it from making its way to my "in" box.

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  7. Contacted. Contacted daily. Duh. It's EARLY, what can I say?

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  8. You're looking handsome, Mr. Jinx! They let you hang out on the dining room table? We aren't supposed to do it, which means that we have to run before the flashy box gets evidence.

    It's a shame that they gave you difficulty over the review. We were actually wondering when that site changed names, because it kind of went under our radar.

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  9. Looking good, Mr. Jinx. Looking REAL good!

    Sorry to hear about that company taking issue with your review. That's so messed up. That's one of the risks they take by reaching out to bloggers to do reviews. After all, it IS a review, right? Besides, we thought your review was pretty darned good.

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  10. OMC! You gave them a positive review, so we don't know what their problem is. Looking very handsome, Mr. Jinx!

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  11. You're looking great, Mr Jinx!

    We're sorry the company chose to be unpleasant about the review you did. We thought you did a lovely review so was actually quite surprised the company didn't think so.

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  12. Great photo, enjoy your Sunday. What a horrid company.

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  13. MR. JINX ET AL
    WE 200% AGREE WITH YOU....WE HAVE BEEN ASKED TO REVIEW A FEW THINGS BUT HAVE DECLINED...MAINLY BECAUSE MOM IS NOT BIG ON SWITCHING MY DIET TO THINGS I AM NOT USED TO EATING.......BUT THAT BEING SAID IF ONE IS ASKED TO REVIEW A PRODUCT ON ONE'S BLOG WHICH IS YOUR BLOG NO ONE HAS ANY SAY SO IN HOW YOU DO IT OR WHAT YOU SAY. BLOGS ARE OUR HAPPY PLACE...
    HUGS MADI YOUR BFFF

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  14. Mr. Jinx, you are looking so good.
    And we think your review was just terrific. We agree with all the comments. I sure wouldn't worry about it. These companies are just getting free advertising and then for them to complain is just nuts.
    Have a great day.

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  15. I love this picture of Mr. Jinx. It's beautiful. I love the light on his face. I was scrolling back through your posts to find your review and saw I missed Boo's birthday. Happy belated birthday to Miss Boo! Anyway, I thought your review looked good, but it makes me wonder then if I'm doing something wrong too. Plus, if you're small fries, we're tater tots. However, we've been contacted a few times and I now wonder if I'm not highlighting the company well enough. Oh well. You have a beautiful blog and you do everything just perfectly if you ask me.

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  16. Well, we'd better look at Mr Jinx anyway =^.^=
    Purrs

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  17. Venting IS ALLOWED. Mom went back and re-read your review. Other than the MR. part, it was a great review. Beside, about elembenty-million kitties got this stuff to try. Mom says that she's sure she's read at least that many reviews and that every cat blogger in the world knows about this stuff. So a little "faux paw" with the MR. thing probably went totally unnoticed by efurrybuddy. We all knew who you meant.

    Mom's been contacted to review a few things and has done a couple, but our blog has always been about us and the writing. Follow your heart and write and post what you want when you want, Debra. Purrs and hugs, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo

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  18. Mr Jinx you are looking mighty Handsome!!! We agree with the other comments totally!!! Anyway we don't get C****.com over here!!!

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  19. I totally agree, you are looking mighty fine Mr. Jinx.

    Now, we shall vent. With 7 of us we spend lots of money for food online, mostly at that place. We took a wee bit of a break from your blog to pop over and tell them to stick it in the litter box. We'll buy elsewhere too.

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  20. Mr Jinx, I am happy you posted this. Your review was just fine! Good for you to let us all know what lurks out there. If they did it to you, they will do it to someone else. Silly people have no business contacting the internet cats if they have little of no cat tracks on their heart. Phooey to them! (To my surprise, this rant came from Fisher herself.)

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  21. I went back and read your review, and like everyone else cannot see what their problem is. I thought it a good and honest review. They emailed me some time ago about doing a review and I replied back that we are in the UK. They still send me emails to review their products!
    Mr Jinx is looking very relaxed on the dining table.

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  22. Mr. Jinx is a very handsome kitty. And that company sounds awful!

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  23. That is a bummer but Mr. Jinx is very handsome indeed.

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  24. We hope you are enjoying your easy Sunday, Mr. Jinx.

    And we're sorry you had such a bad experience with C****.com. Like others, we have done reviews for them and purchase from them regularly. We've never had a problem. But, we don't think they should dictate how you review an item. So you got the name wrong...that's not that big of a deal...sheesh.

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  25. I totally agree with the way you handled Mr. C****!

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  26. Handsome as always, Mr Jinx!

    I'm sorry you had problems with your review. I've found them easy to work with, and I never worried about how much I've highlighted them in the reviews. I try to make it into a little story. Because of Oui Oui's fussiness, I've never been able to give a product a 4 out of 4 and they've taken it in stride.

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  27. You look wonderful, Mr. Jinx! Very nice and dignified pose!

    We get emails from different companies but we have never done a review--I pretty much hate all treats, ha ha meow! We've just never been interested in all that and now you've given us yet another reason! We say Pfft to them!

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  28. We still think of Chewy as Mr.Chewy too. It's hard to get in the habit when a company changes its name so close to the original. Your review was very good and don't understand their problem.

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  29. Stopping by from Brian's blog because a) I don't know you kitties and b) I'm nosy I guess... I think your review looked just fine. If they didn't like it, they could have just not sent you anymore review offers? Anyways nice to meet you.

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  30. Yikes. I thought your review was great. Not sure what their problem was. When someone asks you to do an honest review, how can they tell you how you should do your review?! - that just smells fishy. poo poo on them.

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  31. Love the lighting on Mr. Jinx.

    I'm p.o.ed at that company because they've NEVER sent me anything to review. They contacted me once time but I said I didn't like those treats so I wanted to pass. I've never bought from them and never will. The FTC disclaimer says that the words are your own and the words should be your own. If they want to write the review, I think the FTC would have a problem with that. That being said, I'm trying to get more reviews but have now changed my mind.

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  32. We missed this and bless Brian for speaking his mind and you! Frankly I'm shocked that they'd do a poor PR move for something they weren't even paying you for! The pet blogging community is a close one and they will regret it. We used to be customers but not in a while.
    Sending purrs..

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  33. We heard about you from Brian's blog. Sorry to hear a company treated you so badly xxxx

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  34. Just passed by from Brian's Home, and I think that it's horrible how that company treated you! They have lost my respect!

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  35. Jinx! Mes must come over and visits! Yous makes mes all fluttery!!!
    And is a review!
    1. To look over, study, or examine again.

    2. To consider retrospectively; look back on.

    3. To examine with an eye to criticism or correction: reviewed the research findings.

    4. To write or give a critical report on (a new work or performance, for example).
    Too bad they did not understand what a review actually is!
    Wes is behind yous 100%!
    Kisses
    Nellie

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