Peter Schiff:- Beware BLACK MONDAY!

[Guest]

Re: Peter Schiff:- Beware BLACK MONDAY!

Try posting a link with itulip.com in it to any other sites that do have a forum, such as Daily Reckoning. These sites consider iTulip to be competition.

Why should iTulip, Inc. spend money to create awareness for sites that won't allow references to itulip.com to be published on their web sites? Doesn't sound like good business practice.

analogy: The gorgeous home coming queen who forbids her boyfriend from talking to homely girls. It doesn't reflect well on her, either. If you've got the stuff, be confident about it. Good ideas are good ideas.

[Rajiv]

Re: Peter Schiff:- Beware BLACK MONDAY!

"News" forum posts show up on our landing page. We reserve the right to re-categorize "News" posts to other forums as we deem appropriate.

EJ,

That is what I thought the reasons were. However, as there appears to be a list of sites that censor out links to itulip -- it would be useful (to me at least) to know -- so as to be judicious in what I put on the news posts. I presume that much of the income of itulip comes from the landing page -- so therefore what gets reported on the landing page is extremely important for Itulip.

[Guest]

Re: Peter Schiff:- Beware BLACK MONDAY!

I haven't got any beef with Fred redirecting posts from the News page to the "Rant and Rave" pages, except I will note that those editorial guidelines are most definitely exercised arbitrarily. Actually, I don't even have a beef with them being exercised arbitrarily.

I do think however, if the editorial decisions for moving posts to rant and rave are indeed arbitrary, and as far as I can tell from past examination, there is clearly no strict guideline being observed, these editorial interventions should not be gussied up with explanations such as "this or that post is not strictly speaking news and was moved for that reason".

This rationale frankly seems "wobbly" given all the non-news anomalies posted to the news pages over the past year. Fred should really not call me out on this as I'll gladly collect and present to you all a wide assortment of posts to the news threads that patently have had nothing strictly to do with "news" in the past year. Whatever guideline exists is manifestly arbitrary.

As for iTulip not being appreciative of posters including links to sites that boycott links to iTulip on their own websites, this to me is entirely understandable. iTulip has zero obligation to be "noble" about this. You guys are winning the reputation contest anyway. A few of us (I for instance am a Europac client and can make my views known there) can speak up in those communities to express our view that their boycotting iTulip links is a "low rent" practice that won't win them much fresh admiration.

On that account, and I think the practice is total weak-kneed bunk, I'd be perfectly happy to light a firecracker under Peter Schiff's chair. He does tend to be a bit wrapped up in himself though so I can't guarantee this will break into his perennial self-absorption.

Oh and one last thought. I think Jim Nickerson, who is posting prolifically all over the place here in the last few days, while blathering in a stream of consciousness form about which I can understand little, might consider taking a nice couple of days off on sabbatical, in order to come back refreshed and full of new ideas!

EJ, I have developed the sense you really are a class-individual, despite whatever wealth you don't have. Don't sweat the competition. Cream rises to the top. We are our own worst enemies. This whole issue would have been best had it never been an issue, and it should be put to rest, and people should get back to just plain old worrying about themselves, how to make the most of greed, and let the rest of the world sort it out for themselves.