Monday, May 24, 2010

Halburn Forced To Remove Sheetz Ad



For the second time this month, Halburn has been forced to pull an ad.
After one of PutnamLIES.com's investigative reporters contacted the Sheetz main office in Pennsylvania, Halburn was forced to pull the "ad" for their stores that he placed on his pages. Those cease and desist letters work  wonders
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Notice the difference?

 However, and this is just a note to Sheetz's corporate folks and lawyers, and we know you're reading this, there are at least 25 other examples of the logo that still appear in his past news stories contained in his "Headline Archives". His other archives contain it as well.
You'll have to take a hammer to him to make him comply.


Here's how it works: He writes a story about the business and then places an ad for that business on his site. Then he tells them that the ad is running and since he's running a special on his prime ad space, they might as well pay him for it.
Then he leaves the ad up unless they object.
A former advertiser told PutnamLIES.com, "To my knowledge, there's 3 or less people that are actually paying for their ads. I think the others are up there just to make his site look more appealing to other suckers. After I canceled my ad with him he kept it up for about another 6 months. I was losing more business from having the ad on there than I was gaining from it. Then that nut tried to come back after about a year and bill me for the ad."
PutnamLIES.com exposed Halburn's misuse of Beyond The Backyard's logo in a story earlier this month.

Hallburn places the ads on his webpage to make it look legitimate, when in fact he's just using the logos without permission.

How many are actually sponsors and how many are "fake sponsors"?
No reputable merchant should have anything to do with him.

This is just one more example of the sleazy practices we've come to expect from this scumbag.

8 comments:

  1. If I was Sheetz, I would sue him for copywrite infringement. Plain and Simple

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  2. I am glad that Sheetz has built some stores in our area. I am also pleased that they want nothing to do with this guy.

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  3. I doubt that he has any paying customers

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  4. Wonder if he'll continue to go in there like he does Walmart?

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  5. I miss the mock ad. It made me chuckle.

    -kg

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  6. Ha! Somebody kicked the Sheetz out of him!

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  7. He said over on Tyler's blog that when Sheetz was named the business of the month by the Chamber of Commerce, he gave them a free ad for a reward. He did the same thing for the Barnes Agency. Apparently, Jeff Barnes complained to him about your parody of his company’s logo.

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  8. It's exactly what we've thought for a long time.
    He gives away ad space to fool the suckers.

    We will parody EVERY advertiser on his site. They’re on notice.
    They run the ads at their own risk.

    They can complain all they want.
    No reputable business would advertise with a shitbag like him.

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