Suppliers: Please STOP posting Facebook contests on the ECF!!!

[Anjaffm]

I recently read that Facebook is a factor in over 80% of the divorce trials these days. The jury is still out on ECF....when she starts speaking to me again, I'll let you know!

Oh yes, do let us in on the news

 

[klynnn]

Did you read that on FB?

 

[Iffy]

Did you read that on FB?

Bonjour!

 

[salemgold]

Buwhahahaha!!! Good one, Iffy

 

[Racehorse]

Well darn dragonbone, that DOES look good. Beer, escargot, ego vape, and what looks like a lot of garlic.....wish I was at the table.

I am eating jello. Due to a medical procedure coming up.

So, I guess anyone can understand why looking at this photo could be exciting to me right now

 

[Mattnatti]

Arguing about facebook being great or horrible is like arguing wether provari is the best or over priced.

Is this Facebook thing and provari thing related? Are they the same thing? Still a little confused over here!

 

[tnash]

Thank you spacekitty!
I value my privacy. No Facebook for me.

 

[dragonbone]

Well darn dragonbone, that DOES look good. Beer, escargot, ego vape, and what looks like a lot of garlic.....wish I was at the table.

I am eating jello. Due to a medical procedure coming up.

So, I guess anyone can understand why looking at this photo could be exciting to me right now

Well thanks for asking dear Racehorse and I'm so pleased my pic is exciting to someone. I was feeling all sad and depressed thinking that no one cared a flying fig what I ate lol. No, no garlic and not snail. Well, not land snails. It's lime juice and sea salt and pepper. The other sauce is also citrusy with lemongrass and other yummy ingredients.

Poor you! I didn't know you had an operation, If you had updated your FB I would have known, and even would have posted a get well card (which I will go and do now).

 

[tmcase]

So don't take part in the contest!

Jeez. If the contest is free, I don't see what the fuss is.

Either choose to participate or don't. Do you call up publishers clearinghouse and complain that you don't want to mail them stuff back to participate?

This seems like looking a gift horse in the mouth to me. A vendor running a contest is not doing it simply to give stuff away. They are doing it for the hopeful new business it will generate. And social media is a common way for them to get word out.

Consumers get a chance at free stuff, the vendor gets free publicity.

And FYI, I rarely FB. Closed my twitter account years ago, and never had an instagram account. So I am not speaking from a personal level. I just think complaining about a FREE contest seems especially picky.

Facebook only contests is a way to build a large FB customer database. Once they get enough customers on FB they won't need ECF anymore and will or may close their supplier account. So why should ECF help them?

 

[dragonbone]

Facebook only contests is a way to build a large FB customer database. Once they get enough customers on FB they won't need ECF anymore and will or may close their supplier account. So why should ECF help them?

Suppliers pay quite a substantial sum to the ECF (AFAIK). So everyone is helping everyone else. Everyone needs everyone else. Nothing is one-sided.

Has any vendor closed their account after getting all the business they need? I haven't heard about anyone doing it. Why would they?

 

[CommaHolly]

So don't take part in the contest!

Jeez. If the contest is free, I don't see what the fuss is.

Either choose to participate or don't. Do you call up publishers clearinghouse and complain that you don't want to mail them stuff back to participate?

This seems like looking a gift horse in the mouth to me. A vendor running a contest is not doing it simply to give stuff away. They are doing it for the hopeful new business it will generate. And social media is a common way for them to get word out.

Consumers get a chance at free stuff, the vendor gets free publicity.

And FYI, I rarely FB. Closed my twitter account years ago, and never had an instagram account. So I am not speaking from a personal level. I just think complaining about a FREE contest seems especially picky.

this,.

I hardly ever FB,,,,,,if it's too much trouble, DON'T ENTER.

Nobody is forcing you.

 

[nnote]

On 1000 likes we're giving away a free 10 ml bottle woohoo!

 

[ScandaLeX]

Facebook only contests is a way to build a large FB customer database. Once they get enough customers on FB they won't need ECF anymore and will or may close their supplier account. So why should ECF help them?

(IMO) this seems far fetched. I couldn't imagine a vendor thinking their only customers would come from a single source.
Maybe it's me but I still don't see what all the ruckus is about. No one is being forced to enter a FREE contest here or on FB.

 

[cmdebrecht]

I love the FB contests. I have "liked" my favorite vendors on FB and find them much easier to keep up with there. I have tried snooping on the contest thread here on ecf, and looking on my vendor's threads here, and I find them much more difficult to find and/or navigate.

 

[nobreak1970]

Holy crap this thread is getting obnoxious in places!!!!

 

[Rocketpunk]

I have a buddy who is militantly anti-Facebook, but he created one anyway just to get in on the contests and prizes. So far he's won juices from The Standard and Jameson's (they came in something like a spy briefcase!), as well as mech mod clones and a few hybrid clones. Just for liking and sharing.

 

[Caridwen]

Suppliers pay quite a substantial sum to the ECF (AFAIK). So everyone is helping everyone else. Everyone needs everyone else. Nothing is one-sided.

Has any vendor closed their account after getting all the business they need? I haven't heard about anyone doing it. Why would they?

A little over $4 a month is substantial?

 

[dragonbone]

A little over $4 a month is substantial?

Oh? I stand corrected. A friend told me it was $800+.

 

[UntamedRose]

Oh? I stand corrected. A friend told me it was $800+.

Good lord NO. 0o

 

[dragonbone]

Good lord NO. 0o

Really? Why on earth would he lie to me... Anyway, he is a wholesale supplier, so maybe that is different then. So vendors only pay $48 a year in total?