Helping Sick and Dying Children
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by Mike on January 3, 2006

I apologize for posting emails that I receive on this site, but I find doing it is cathartic and I appreciate the advice I’m getting.

I get a log of “Dear Blogger” type emails (this one is “Dear Technical Product Reviewer”). My policy on this is generally to ignore them. If you can’t take the time to figure out my name, which is plastered all over the site, then I won’t take the time to learn about your product.

But this one goes on to suggest that their technical help service is entirely a fundraising effort for a childrens charity and even goes on to suggest that “we believe that your review will help us to save the starving, sick and dying children whom we call the “Forgotten Children”“.

Jeez, talk about a guilt trip. The site is not so great. I think they need to get a designer to donate some time. Feel free to contact them direclty.

Dear Technical Product Reviewer,

We’d like to introduce a new technical support service that’s available to consumers. We’d like you to review our service and let people know that there’s a friendly and helpful service, once only available to business users that’s available for consumers that does a “greater good”.

TechLinksDirect (www.techlinksdirect.com), an online remote computer support service, was created as a fund-raising initiative of The Global Children’s Fund (www.theglobalchildrensfund.org). Using the Citrix TM GoToAssist TM platform, techs can remotely access, diagnose and repair many common PC problems for consumers over the Internet.

Please evaluate and report on our service. If you want a free account number, please email a request to XXXX@techlinksdirect.com for a free login.

We are so confident in the quality of our service that we believe that your review will help us to save the starving, sick and dying children whom we call the “Forgotten Children”.

We look forward to reading your review!

Thank you!

Michelle XXXXXXXX

Email: XXXX@techlinksdirect.com

http://www.techlinksdirect.com/

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  • Hey Mike – if you review my product it will help the children. Specifically my children. More specifically … their college funds.

    thanks!

  • Mike, While I will soon ask for your review of our service, my partner has a nephew in the Philippines who is truly dying. He whipped up a nice little site to raise funds here http://helprainier.com for Rainier’s surgery. As far as web 2.0 bells and whistles, the scrolling donor list is about as fancy as it gets (not too fancy).

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