Looks like our ol' buddies, The Gang of 4, owners of baexpat dot org are up to their old tricks.The Fox News of Buenos Aires forums has unleashed a bunch of their "fair and balanced" at the expat owner of a family cookie company, Frank Almeida of Sugar and Spice ...with all the reason and moderation that they're famous for.
If you know Frank, then you also know that you've met maybe the nicest expat that ever set foot on these shores. Stomping on him is a new, all-time low. I hope you'll write Frank and let him know how you feel.
I used to make a big deal in these pages about the scammers that run that site ...with their shill accounts, their Buenos Aires experts that secretly live 10,000km away, the rabid anti-Baires posters that they protect, the way the owners actually step-in to fan the flames if things calm down, the monthy dinner scam, and the wholesale banning of commenters that took issue with any of it.
It used to exist to drive traffic to something called indextar ...now I think it's worthwhile only for the owners to mine the last of the real estate trade from the expat community.
If you like that kind of stuff, have at it. But keep in mind that it's not particularly "Buenos Aires", "Expatriate" nor a "Group".
4 comments:
Frank is a stand up guy and genuine good egg. You are correct sir, truly an all time low.
Yeah. The testimonials are coming in from all over.
That forums like that degenerate into a schoolyard from hell ...isn't so strange where there's no moderation.
But its 4 owners, insist that they ARE moderating it!
I guess that we'll just have to take them at their word ...and realize that they like it that way.
Oh geez! Seriously?? Against Frank? Do these people have no limits? I have never heard or read one mean thing come from him. It's just unbelievable!
Yeah.
Now they're threatening to sue him.
Of course, that's stupid ...but what would you expect from those people that own it.
I ask you, what's fair, what should a bakery owner do in his case?
A bunch of "members" (many of them the same people with multiple identities)pile on Frank ...and that's fair, according to the owners. When Frank speaks out, they delete his posts and shutdown threads to further comments, and when Frank makes his case elsewhere they threaten to make his life hell in the courts.
How would you do it yourself if you or I were in the same situation? What would be fair to you?
It's not a real "forum", whatever that is. It's an semi-organized mob whose owners mine for any possible real estate sucker that might innocently walk through the door.
The stuff they do to Frankie and, now, Tandoor and other individuals is just to create traffic.
besos,
Mike
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