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FORNITS GETS $$$ TO ADVERTISE FOR WWASPS AND OTHER TEEN TORT
Anonymous:
--- Quote --- A vote for GW is a vote for America's Führer.
--Anonymous (it's best that way...)
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Since I'm not sure I follow this, I?ll give you an example of how I think the ads could benefit the industry. (It's tedious and perhaps simplistic for someone with your technical acumen, but I'm your typical layperson surfer and have to think in those terms.)
1. Parent X hears about WWASPS from a friend.
2. Parent does a Google search on WWASPS.
3. Parent notices first positive hit wwasps.org and browses there.
4. Parent skips over or willfully ignores those hits that are negative towards WWASPS.
5. Parent goes to page 2 of hits.
6. Parent scrolls down.
7. Parent, at this point, is already sick of searching for more info on WWASPS.
8. Parent scrolls down page 2 to fornits.com.
(This is a parent suffering from confirmation bias. Perhaps friend of parent X has convinced him or her of the helpfulness of WWASPS or has managed to debunk the debunkers. In any case, our parent X is not looking for negative info on WWASPS.)
9. On page 2, our parent sees only on the fornits.com hit "You might also want to note that WWASPS does not pay educational consultants to refer to them, so they have plenty of reason to say negative things. ... and then proceeds to click on the page.
10. Parent doesn't care about the forum, but is drawn to the ad banner at the top.
11. The ad banner facilitates parent X's search with links that he or she was originally unaware of.
12. Parent finds a facility that interests him or her.
13. Parent leaves fornits.com and is ready to put his or her child into a facility found on fornits.com.
A lot of folks are rapid, ADD surfers like our parent X. Remember also that people often ignore negative info about products or services. You might think that parent X should be able to see all the bad publicity jumping out at him or her. But many desperate parents don?t want to hear about it. Think about the warning signs that our own parents ignored.
Of course, this could all be redundant if what you say about the advertisers comes true.
Anonymous:
I was FINALLY able to click through to an actual WWASP ad. I couldn't even tell it was a WWASP one until I did a WHOIS.
http://troubled-teenagers.org/index.php ... nt+academy
the info:
Registrant:
Registered through:
Jake Peart
Teens In Crisis
171 S. Main
Hurricane, UT 84737
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Domain Name: TROUBLED-TEENAGERS.ORG
Created on: 29-Jun-2002 19:49:12 UTC
Expires on: 29-Jun-2006 19:54:33 UTC
Last Updated on: 31-Oct-2005 05:54:29 UTC
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Jake Peart
Teens In Crisis
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171 S. Main St.
Hurricane, UT 84737
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ya know aftre seeing some of these ads.. i cant believe parents fall for this bullshit. who are these people anyways? employees or independent contractors.. wonder if they let just anybody bring in the business and collect a fee. this shit is all over the web. its interesting wwasp is trying to hide who they are now, they werent doing that a few years ago. picking a name like WWASP was very appropriate.
im thinking about calling them and playing along like I have a kid who's just a normal teenager and obviously shouldnt be sent away and see what they say. BTW what are the rules on recording calls so we can upload em to the web and get a good laugh.. always wondered. people upload prank calls all the time it seems. :smokin:
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-01-04 14:41:00, Anonymous wrote:
Of course, this could all be redundant if what you say about the advertisers comes true.
"
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already has.
Anonymous:
Well, "teen boot camps" is gone, but a few others remain. I guess I need a hit.
Troll Control:
--- Quote ---On 2006-01-04 14:41:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I was FINALLY able to click through to an actual WWASP ad. I couldn't even tell it was a WWASP one until I did a WHOIS.
http://troubled-teenagers.org/index.php ... nt+academy
the info:
Registrant:
Registered through:
Jake Peart
Teens In Crisis
171 S. Main
Hurricane, UT 84737
US eNom, Inc.
Domain Name: TROUBLED-TEENAGERS.ORG
Created on: 29-Jun-2002 19:49:12 UTC
Expires on: 29-Jun-2006 19:54:33 UTC
Last Updated on: 31-Oct-2005 05:54:29 UTC
Administrative Contact:
Technical Contact:
Jake Peart
Teens In Crisis
support@2helpteens.com
171 S. Main St.
Hurricane, UT 84737
US
+1.8002503966
---
ya know aftre seeing some of these ads.. i cant believe parents fall for this bullshit. who are these people anyways? employees or independent contractors.. wonder if they let just anybody bring in the business and collect a fee. this shit is all over the web. its interesting wwasp is trying to hide who they are now, they werent doing that a few years ago. picking a name like WWASP was very appropriate.
im thinking about calling them and playing along like I have a kid who's just a normal teenager and obviously shouldnt be sent away and see what they say. BTW what are the rules on recording calls so we can upload em to the web and get a good laugh.. always wondered. people upload prank calls all the time it seems. :smokin: "
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as long as one party knows it's being taped it's perfectly legal. a third party taping calls of two other parties is illegal.
you should do it. it would make for good evidence of fraud for a court case, 'cause you know they will reccommend treatment.
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