Comments on: CDW Employee Astroturfs [GAS] with Fake Comments

By: Monsieur L

Monsieur L — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:42:14 +0000

You basically owned him :-)
gratz

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:34:34 +0000

I’ve used CDW for years and like them alot. I doubt the company would condone this, as you and others have said. If you can overlook this incident, its a good company to do business with and you could do much worse. Another company I’ve recently had a positive experience with is ChicagoMicro. Company was founded by former CDW exec, and many of the staff are ex-CDW people as well.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:16:27 +0000

I don’t think it’s cost effective ( for CDW ) to have an ( so-called ) accounts manager turfing/hyping to inflate their online presence. Seems as though it had the op. effect this time.
Next time they want to start blowing smoke up people ass,
go to some “work at home” forums and offer something like
$.25-$.50 per post to let folks know how WONDERFUL this Co. really is. Either way it’s still SPAM.

By: Scot

Scot — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:11:36 +0000

Doh! Awesome. Yeah, meat puppets should be ground to a pulp.

And BTW, CDW screwed up my corporate Adobe order so many times I was ready to pull my hair out. So there.

By: Bella

Bella — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:32:42 +0000

Oh SNAP!

Comment spam is never an appropriate business practice.

By: TMSheik

TMSheik — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:23:40 +0000

owned

By: CW

CW — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:34:56 +0000

I have no ax to grind against CDW. I use them for price benchmarking because I can usually beat their price from one or more of the sites listed above.

Disclaimer aside, that right there is funny and I don’t care who you are. Good Job!

By: Chip

Chip — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:44:48 +0000

Great work, Kiltak. That’s a shame, because I do like CDW as a source — they have decent prices and I can get Net/30 terms, so if I need something now I can get it and figure out how to pay for it later, without loading up any credit cards. Shame on JohnMattChris. What a stupid jerk.

By: Geeks are Sexy

Geeks are Sexy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:01:27 +0000

Well, I thought I was pretty fair.. the title is “CDW Employee Astroturfs [GAS] with Fake Comments”… I don’t put the blame on the company, I just say it happened through one of their employees, and that this practice should be frowned upon.

I also say: “There is one thing that I really, really hate. Dishonest people. “Mr. Johnmattchris” could at least have used a proxy to hide his originating address and spare a measure of shame to his company.”

Once again, I pass the message that CDW may be innocent in this.

By: Carly

Carly — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:44:59 +0000

I got emailed this by a friend of mine. I used to work for CDW, I wont lie and it is an awesome company. Honestly.

One thing the company doesnt promote is loggin on a website like this to hype it up. what that individual account manager did was really dumb and would probably result in bg trouble for them.

CDW had ads during the monday night football and is a pga sponsor. they need a semi-crazy guerilla marketing tactic.

i wont go crazy in my defense for the company but i do know that action is not encourage by the company and is probably some new employee that thinks its “cool” to do that.

just be fair in your post…one person is not the company.

By: Chad D

Chad D — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:27:10 +0000

Nice catch! GAS 0wned “CDW John”!

By: BelchSpeak

BelchSpeak — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:18:05 +0000

Great expose’, Kiltak.
If CDW wants to advertise, they can sponsor adspace or run a freakin’ superbowl commercial.