Friday, June 4, 2010
Ignorance Can Hurt
I absolutely cannot stand the family of inbreds that make up the Westboro Baptist Church. Their blatant disrespect and gross translation of the Bible, make me not only angry but sick. This family purposefully goes to funerals of fallen soldiers and picketts. They shout ugly and untrue things about the deseased such as "God Hates Fags" and "He's [the soldier] Going To Hell". Families are not able to grieve in peace while this family continues to do these horrificly unmoral things. Where is our government on this? Why have they not been labeled a cult? Why are the police protecting them and enabling them to intrude on private burials?
I am happy to say that my city of Bakersfield refused this family protection! They wanted to come pickett a funeral here in my city, and the police told them under no uncertain terms that if they came here, they came without protection. Police would not stand beside them. This made my heart leap and I again felt proud of my little town. Typically known as red necks and small town people, I am happy to be counted among them as they were the only one's brave enough to say "NO, we will not allow you to abuse the right of free speech. NO, we will not stand by while you intrude upon these grieving families and shout your hateful comments. NO, we will not protect you from what you rightly deserve...a good swift kick in the ass!"
No one likes war, and no one wants their family members to go off to some far off land and die. Nobody wants that. But the ugly truth is there will always be a war, and there will always be a need for brave people to suit up and protect our country. They fight for our rights and freedoms. They fight and die so that people like this cult family can do as they please. But what about Morality? Who fights for that? Our government needs to step in and stop this family from doing these horrific things to grieving families. It is our job to fight for those who fight and die for us!
Monday, May 31, 2010
ShoeDazzle Lies
I thought my first blog should really be about something I know alot about, and something that has happened fairly recently. Right now there is a big craze over Kim Kardashian's ShoeDazzle business, and sadly I was a member. I feel I should warn some of you about the shady business that occurs, and help some of you find your shoes much cheaper and without the hassle.
I joined ShoeDazzle over a year and a half ago, in January of 2009. At first, I thought it was great. Stylists picking shoes based off a fashion survey you take during sign up, pretty boxes and tissue, shoes you couldn't find anywhere else, and a respectable price of $40. Who could ask for more, right? I bought two pairs of shoes from them (Kizzy and Simone) before a very nice woman told me I was being ripped off. A few months after I saw the error of my ways, there was a huge uproar from the fans on the ShoeDazzle Fan Page on Facebook. The company's employees who run the site began doing very shady things instead of trying to fix the problems the fans were complaining about.
At first, ShoeDazzle rep. Brian Lee called a few ladies and apologized for misleading their fans, and promised that they would be getting truely exclusive shoes in stock for their fans soon. This helped, but then it was never delivered. Sadly, the company decided to change their Terms of Service and ads to state that they carry several different brands, and that they could now cancel your membership with them at any time of their choosing, and any credits on the account at the time of cancelation would be kept by the company. This again started a frenzy among the gilted fans.
One by one, the women who were asking the important questions, demanding answers for the lies they had been told, were being silenced. The employees running the fan page were blocking and banning these women, myself included. Several women got calls from Heidi and Jesse, managers at ShoeDazzle, and were told their accounts have been canceled and that they would not be receiving a check to repay the credits on their accounts. One woman had 5 credits saved when they canceled her. She lost $200 all because she wanted to know why we had all been lied too. ShoeDazzle felt they had won, but they truely only made their problems worse.
These women who had been scorned by this poor excuse of a company, banded together and created a new page. A page dedicated to outing ShoeDazzle for what it really was. They created secondary profiles, infiltrated the fan page, and began emailing the fans of this company links to the shoes they were looking for. They dedicated their free time to finding the shoes ShoeDazzle was offering, on other sites for cheaper. Suddenly, there was another wave of banning and blocking from this fan page. ShoeDazzle employees would post as fans on the page, asking for shoes, and when someone would email them with a link, they'd ban that person. The women now had to regroup and think of a new way to get the word out about this company that feeds it's fan's lies, and continues to use old ads featuring hot shoes they no longer offered in an attempt to get new customers. The women figured it out!
They wrote to the Better Business Bureau. Each one of the women that were lied too, used, and abused by this company wrote to the BBB and told their individual stories. They created several other pages dedicated to finding the shoes cheaper, using the ShoeDazzle name so that they would pop up in searches. They had to get the word out before too many other women blindly wasted their hard earned money. Sadly, the BBB site took down the posts and did an audit on the comments. The women responded to the BBB emails and explained their stories again. Sadly the BBB only saw fit to keep 2 of the several comments on it's site. Cencorship had reared it's ugly head once again. but the women had made a dent.
Other companies that the women were linking to people started to realize who was sending them all their new business. These grateful companies have now gone so far as to give these ladies coupon codes to their sites for anywhere from 15-25% off. The women continue to try and spread the word among fans asking for certain shoes. If any of you are ShoeDazzle fans, please do some research, and save some cash. Urban Originals carries most of the shoes featured on the ShoeDazzle site for $10-20 cheaper! Their link is on my page, and if you would like links to some of the Facebook pages dedicated to finding the shoes cheaper, please feel free to message me. I can point you toward some very awesome women who came together in defiance of corporate injustice. Happy Shoe Hunting Ladies!
At first, ShoeDazzle rep. Brian Lee called a few ladies and apologized for misleading their fans, and promised that they would be getting truely exclusive shoes in stock for their fans soon. This helped, but then it was never delivered. Sadly, the company decided to change their Terms of Service and ads to state that they carry several different brands, and that they could now cancel your membership with them at any time of their choosing, and any credits on the account at the time of cancelation would be kept by the company. This again started a frenzy among the gilted fans.
One by one, the women who were asking the important questions, demanding answers for the lies they had been told, were being silenced. The employees running the fan page were blocking and banning these women, myself included. Several women got calls from Heidi and Jesse, managers at ShoeDazzle, and were told their accounts have been canceled and that they would not be receiving a check to repay the credits on their accounts. One woman had 5 credits saved when they canceled her. She lost $200 all because she wanted to know why we had all been lied too. ShoeDazzle felt they had won, but they truely only made their problems worse.
These women who had been scorned by this poor excuse of a company, banded together and created a new page. A page dedicated to outing ShoeDazzle for what it really was. They created secondary profiles, infiltrated the fan page, and began emailing the fans of this company links to the shoes they were looking for. They dedicated their free time to finding the shoes ShoeDazzle was offering, on other sites for cheaper. Suddenly, there was another wave of banning and blocking from this fan page. ShoeDazzle employees would post as fans on the page, asking for shoes, and when someone would email them with a link, they'd ban that person. The women now had to regroup and think of a new way to get the word out about this company that feeds it's fan's lies, and continues to use old ads featuring hot shoes they no longer offered in an attempt to get new customers. The women figured it out!
They wrote to the Better Business Bureau. Each one of the women that were lied too, used, and abused by this company wrote to the BBB and told their individual stories. They created several other pages dedicated to finding the shoes cheaper, using the ShoeDazzle name so that they would pop up in searches. They had to get the word out before too many other women blindly wasted their hard earned money. Sadly, the BBB site took down the posts and did an audit on the comments. The women responded to the BBB emails and explained their stories again. Sadly the BBB only saw fit to keep 2 of the several comments on it's site. Cencorship had reared it's ugly head once again. but the women had made a dent.
Other companies that the women were linking to people started to realize who was sending them all their new business. These grateful companies have now gone so far as to give these ladies coupon codes to their sites for anywhere from 15-25% off. The women continue to try and spread the word among fans asking for certain shoes. If any of you are ShoeDazzle fans, please do some research, and save some cash. Urban Originals carries most of the shoes featured on the ShoeDazzle site for $10-20 cheaper! Their link is on my page, and if you would like links to some of the Facebook pages dedicated to finding the shoes cheaper, please feel free to message me. I can point you toward some very awesome women who came together in defiance of corporate injustice. Happy Shoe Hunting Ladies!
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