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| Safe-to-Buy founder and CEO had
a run in with what we consider to be one of the "faceless giants" of the
Internet (and business-world in general). He had the misfortune of coming into contact
with a business called eCOMPANIES.com and from that experience he realized that there were
more than one type of con-artist lurking out there. This experience made him realize that our fellow web-based small business friends were exposed to even more dangerous "con-artists" than those simple straight forward lying low-down cheats and thieves that are so easy to spot! We are talking about the "blind big corporate crooks!" Here we are talking about the large listed or over capitalized corporation that have someone extremely crooked or just plain "stupid and dumb" in charge who feels they can do what they please -- whether they have the plain common horse sense to know what they are doing or if it is even right or wrong! Take eCompanies (not to be confused with eCompanies-online) with millions in assets, who just happened to have plunked down $7.5 million dollars to buy business.com. This business claims to want to help develop your "ideas & business plans", but beware, and they state this themselves, "Due to the large volume of business plans we receive, if you send us a business plan or business idea, we may not be able to respond to you personally. Also be advised that any business plans or business ideas you send to eCOMPANIES are not confidential. eCOMPANIES or its affiliates may be working on the same or similar business, or may develop such business in the future. Additionally, eCOMPANIES does not sign Non-Disclosure Agreements during its discussions with potential investments. If you understand this and would still like to submit an idea or business plan," -- and God help you if you do! Their one "saving grace" is they said all the above themselves, would you or could you trust a company with this type of policy? Well they together with their attorneys, Sidley & Austin, who grossed $27 billion in 1999 "demanded, that Stevens cease and desist" from "using words and letters like e, companies and ecompanies". They have the name eCOMPANIES.com and they believe this gives them the "God given" rights to every other word in the English language, even remotely connected to their Domain Name, such as eCOMPANIES -online.com and because Stevens owned another 15 similar names they threatened him with lawsuits involving $100,000 per name! We are not going to go into detail regarding this incident and embarrass both eCOMPANIES.com or Sidley & Austin but only warn our fellow internet colleagues to beware of "faceless,mindless corporation" because some have people in charge who feel their "big buck buying power" is too much for anyone to resist or they are just too dumb to understand anything beyond their perception of their own importance! However, we should thank these two concerns for generating the "spark" that gave Stevens the idea to form Safe-to-Buy-online! HOME |
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