Domainer Responsibilty
People have no idea how many scammers were milking bodis with bogus accounts and having friends, relatives click on their names. One guy came into bodis and actually stated, yeah "my grandma clicked on all my ads, I did not tell her to, so what could I do, lol"
Yeah grandma just received a dream to click on the members names, right. When you have a small company that grew as fast as Bodis did, rocket fast, you cannot screen the members and that is what brought Bodis down.
You and I were caught up in this and the only way to solve it was to dismantle the mess and quickly as Bodis losses were staggering.
Now Bodis is slowly accepting members and fraud is not going to ever get out of control again as management knows the tricks scammers have.
Now if you guys who are saying Bodis deliberaltly canceled accounts to keep the 100% knew all the behind the scenes click fraud from domainers who many had created several accounts to defraud Bodis you would have some understanding about this.
Everyone knew Bodis was a start up offered by a 20 year old who had a great reputation here and in the domain world.
That being said Bodis is not a Sedo, a Fabulous or a Trafficz, so you , we, all knew there were no guarantees. If anything taking into account how starting a new parking service is risky, no one should be blaming Bodis. We said, heck yeah, I will take a chance and support this effort, who knows, my names may start making some real money, so we jumped in.
Its not and never was a sure thing as it was a new idea, with limited backing and no employees. Why the hell then do most who complain think it was a deliberate attempt to take your few bucks?.
In my view it was a brave undertaking by a hardworking young man who showed the domain world he is somebody and we all stood behind him with our support.
So it flopped due to external forces. My hat is off to Matt, he has moved mountains.
Stand out of his way as the next time around he may be the Ceo of the best parking service around. He may flop again, but my bet is if he does he will just get back on his horse and forge ahead. He is not a quitter and he won't be stopped by a few who have only the agenda to make him trouble.
Bodis from day one was a idea, you cannot count your chickens before they hatch. So how can you blame a parking company that had zero employees, hardly any assets, ( compared to the big parking companies) the guy was barely older than a teenager.
I suppose if I said to you here is a penney stock for $1.00. If the stock fails it is not my fault for you buying it. You bought it knowing all the odds in the world are against it making money as most penney stocks are pies in the sky ideas, with no or little assets behind them.
What I am saying is this was not a proven business from the get go.
You were a fool if you thought taking your names from a big parking company and trying Bodis was any kind of gaurantee. You knew and I knew full well this was worth trying so you and I jumped in.
For every one who has lost a few bucks, do you think Bodis is the only parking service on the web that has cost you money?
Most of the top parking services are reaming you guys raw, reporting pennies that you made when you are making them dollars click after click.
Wake up, the real rip offs in this industry are right in front of you everyday when you sign into your parking companies. I suppose like a ostrich with his head in the sand, the bird is not going to know if his feathers are being plucked off his back one at a time.
The parking companies can be gleaning feathers from the bird and the bird only knows he is losing feathers after he pulls his head out of the sand. Just like the bird, domainers have no clue the amount of gleaning, (fleecing).
If we as domainers are concerned about loss of monies we will start demanding our parking companies provide full transparent stats of our clicks. What if you and I are only receiving about .10% of what we are really due from our parking companies?
I suspect most domainers are getting plucked by parking companies, but they are too busy to care. You better care, it is not going to get any better until domain transparency is the normal.
Bodis is way closer to success today than ever. I hope Bodis has a prosperous and happy new year.
