Comments on: Barclays Says Drive Traffic With A Good Scam!

By: Justin Gough

Justin Gough — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:54:34 +0000

I love the term “Internet Scam” or “Internet Urban Legend”

Who ever ok’ed this idea should be fired…immediately.

Why would you take web marketing advice from someone who doesn’t even know about the term “Viral Campaign”

Justin Gough

By: Scam

Scam — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:36:54 +0000

I know

Nothing like a good rant every now and again though!

By: John

John — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:26:00 +0000

I was being sarcastic

By: Scam

Scam — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:34:55 +0000

Yeah.. right… I applied for a mortgage in March and was told it would only take 2-3 weeks… still hasn’t completed even now!

By: John

John — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:31:29 +0000

No their excessive charges are to cover the excellent customer service that the banks offer us

By: Scam

Scam — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:12:59 +0000

Now that we know Barclays promote scamming potential customers, I’m going to give them a telephone call, to see if their excessive bank charges are just part of some viral marketing campaign

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:28:25 +0000

Chris,

Sorry I misunderstood. I’m amazed that Barclays have put their name to this… to top it all off you can only access the site with Internet Explorer.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:43:37 +0000

I meant to imply that their “web guru” (probably straight out of college), had over heard something down the pub whilst sipping his shandy (being not old enough to drink yet), and confused the concept of a “scam campaign” with a viral campaign.

i.e. not knowing his arse from his elbow…

I don’t doubt what you say, or what the article suggests… I just can’t see how anyone with an ounce of web development/skills/management/SEO etc etc would even call it what and how they called it…

Gave me a chuckle..

(ps. Thanks for the article by the way)

Chris

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:14:44 +0000

It’s definitely not a viral campaign, this is their “advice” to businesses.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:17:22 +0000

Just shows you how far behind the times they are, or that they have someone who knows a little about the subject but not enough to beat an amoeba in an GCSE IT test.

Do you think they meant ‘viral campaign’…
I think that will come back to bite them… unless, it was a viral campaign of their own. Give it a few weeks and some bright spark will come back say, “our scam suggestion was in fact a viral campaign to prove our point. Just look at all the traffic from sites referencing our ‘error’

Yeah right… I wouldn’t touch Barclays with barge pole.