Comments on: What’s Your Online Reputation Worth?

By: Reminder: Darin Carter is a Scammer - Blog Contests, Link Contests, Any Contests

Reminder: Darin Carter is a Scammer - Blog Contests, Link Contests, Any Contests — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:24:14 +0000

[...] of emails, messing around, and a myriad of excuses, am still yet to receive it. About the same time John Cow got in touch with me and said that he hadn’t received the Playstation 3 he supposedly [...]

By: Neotrepreneur

Neotrepreneur — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:39:13 +0000

6 months for a USB? Now thats a looong time.

By: Domain Name Tips

Domain Name Tips — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:59:16 +0000

to be fair, cow, you also have backed out, or changed the rules, of your own contest “mid season” in the past as well. You felt your reasons were valid enough but in my opinion should have still “manned up” and taken care of that current period.

(I apologize if you did do that or if my understanding of the situation was wrong).

It does suck when a prize that is promised isn’t given out. Coming from someone that enters things often and really looks forward to the chance to win something, it sucks to get excited and then be disappointed when nothing happens. It’s also really disheartening to learn of bogus, staged and sneaky “contest” that blogs sometimes come up with.

(this wasn’t directed at the cow, just brought up the frustration from the past)

By: Contest Beat

Contest Beat — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:26:17 +0000

Can I ask who took offense to the mugshot and why? I can’t think of an image for appropriate for this person.

By: Betshopboy.net » The Week In Review (02/12 - 08/12)

Betshopboy.net » The Week In Review (02/12 - 08/12) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:14:00 +0000

[...] not the first) winner who had won and is still waiting for their prizes. The cow felt tricked and questioned Darin’s credibility and reputation. I’ve also took part in Darin’s last contest to win an iPhoneand this must be the only time I [...]

By: James

James — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:43:26 +0000

Online Reputation means a lot in blogosphere, but surely his reputation won’t be a problem with only a few complaining from a few bloggers.

By: Some College Girl

Some College Girl — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:16:50 +0000

Why would you hold a contest and not follow through?? As a new blogger this is personally something that I would worry about first is having the “goods” before dishing them out. If he doesn’t have the prizes, he should say so, and at least have offered to pay the price worth of the prizes to winners… shame

By: Angel

Angel — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:57:12 +0000

Who took offense?

By: Allyn Paul

Allyn Paul — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:49:54 +0000

I have a used PS2 I will sell him for $40 plus shipping. LOL

By: JoeTech.com

JoeTech.com — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:42:52 +0000

@PinoyTech: The best advice I think I could give for anyone’s first contest (other than the obvious “don’t scam”) is that you should check out other contests, plan, and then run your plan by someone who’s done it to make sure you’ve thought about everything. My first contest turned out to be a horrible failure because I did some pretty dumb stuff in the beginning like making it really uninviting to enter, etc. So just fine tune all the details ahead of time and get someone who’s done it to tell you it’s ready before launching.

By: James B.

James B. — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:19:31 +0000

It’s worth the world.

By: Gilberticus

Gilberticus — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:17:35 +0000

Jeeez. What can you expect from a turd who uses his 2 year old son as a gimmick to draw traffic….. The dumb assed catch phrase appears to be “whatever that means”. What a tard.

By: Thor Schrock

Thor Schrock — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:45:09 +0000

The fastest way to kill your rep is to offer something and not deliver. TThis is a great example because before this post I had no idea who this guy was. Now I will never take anything he says seriously again. Thanks for the heads up Cow Man!

By: PinoyTech

PinoyTech — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:42:42 +0000

@shy_guy - I agree. That’s the reason I have been putting off creating a contest. With the dental operations I am going through, I doubt that I’d be creating contests anytime soon.

By: JoeTech.com

JoeTech.com — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:36:18 +0000

For my first contest, I didn’t have a budget, but wanted to promise something cool, so I gave away my own Motorola Q phone. It wasn’t new, but it was a nice prize and I disclosed that it was used. Since then, I’ve been giving away money. Just yesterday, I drew a winner for my MyBlogLog contest and I paid the $100 prize within a few hours. There’s no reason to delay when it comes to contest prizes. Especially now, when there’s scammers and con artists putting everyone on the defense. Have your prizes ready to go.

By: shy guy

shy guy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:12:07 +0000

For reminder.. Never do contest if you can’t give it….

By: Javo

Javo — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:51:47 +0000

damn who can with this guy!

By: Angel

Angel — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:59:28 +0000

What a joker. He gave that dude his own USB stick. Well, his life problems didn’t stop him jetting off to expos, partying with bloggers, posing in free shirts, setting up a radio show, etc. etc. It’s a scam and it’s BS. And he censors comments about this too.

By: NSpeaks

NSpeaks — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:45:36 +0000

BTW John, the blog’s name is Contest beat and not Contest blogger!

By: betshopboy

betshopboy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:41:40 +0000

He had NOT followed through his promise of contest prizes to you and others, yet you still gave him so many linkbacks and free publicity?

Oh gosh, what signals are we sending out these days?