It was anonymous. There is no evidence of who owns and runs the company, there is no contact address and it may easily be a scam from the Spanish Mafia without delving into the labyrinth of Companies House. The sites that are being promoted equally do not have contact information that helps so we do not know who this is and are expected to reveal our email address to them.
On yer Bike!
Of course I will not post spam comment especially if it could come from the man in the moon. But this serves as a lesson in how not to do online PR in the bloggersphere. Transparency is vitally important.
This is what the comment said:
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Vertical Search":
Hi, David We would like you to check our vertical search sites: - Trovit Jobs - Trovit cars, second hand cars - Trovit Homes, real estate We hope you like them!
As it happens, the site is registered to Enrique Dominguez of Rossello 277 6, BArcelona, 08034, Spain and was registered in March.
I still would not trust this site with my email address.
Hi, David
ReplyDeleteWe just found this post on your site and we are very sorry you feel like that about us.
We're sorry about the anonymous comment on your previous post, we should have included our contact information. Our only intention was to let you and your readers know of a new vertical search engine.
About the sites, they all have contact forms although as you say we don't publish any contact email (this is done to protect us from spam, but we see now that maybe we should have the email on the site).
We are also in the process of incorporating our company and we'll soon have all the legal information on our sites.
We send thousands of daily email alerts to our users, and we have never used any of the emails we store for sending a single spam message (and we will never do that). We only want to give our users the best service we can create.
As I said, we're sorry about the inconvenience and we hope it's been just a misunderstanding.
Of course, you can contact us with any issue you might have.
Thanks for your time,
Mario
info (at) trovit (dot) com
Than you Mario.
ReplyDeleteI wish you well with your venture.