Doingfine.org is a con to get free advertising

On March 1st 2008 I received this email from advertising@polimedia.us

We have reviewed your www.stopscientology.com
blog on behalf of one
of our clients that would be interested in placing advertising with
you.

Client profile :

DoingFine (http://doingfine.org)

New project (<1>

Theme A forum dedicated to those things that came out right

and worked out fine.

We'd like either a 150x150 button, 160x600 skyscraper or 468x60 full
banner (or footer). Alternatively, we may be interested in text-only
advertising.

This would be a weekly, monthly or yearly arrangement. In either case
we will require a one time, one day (24 hours) free placement in order
to test the quality and quantity of traffic your website can actually
provide*. Within this interval, we will make a final determination,
based on the traffic volume, quality, and your asking price. Should
we find your terms acceptable, this trial day will count towards the
agreed interval.

Kindly let us know if you would be interested, which arrangement best
suits your editorial needs, and what rates you would like to charge.
We prefer using PayPal but may be able to accommodate alternative
payment methods.

Thank you.

*Please note that we employ software that reliably detects autoclick
and autosurf bots, pay per click and paid to surf type traffic, and
other such non-human traffic. This may be a concern for you,
especially if you are buying "bulk traffic", or employing the
services of dubious "SEO experts".

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I wrote back I would try it out. I then put up a banner ad at the top of my site. 24 hours later I wrote them wondering how things went. I never heard from them again.

They are a con. They only do this to get free advertising with no intent to pay their clients.

Doingfine.org is a con, liars and will not pay you.

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March 4th 2004

They finally respond. Only after I send them the email with the link to this Blog.

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We have been reviewing the traffic sent from your blog, and while the
quality is good, the volume is not sufficient to allow us to make an offer.

We are therefore sorry to say we will have to pass.

--- They also sent me this:

Thank you for your kind extortion attempt. We care, deeply, but about other
things.

It is the nature of the Internet that everyone can write down whatever they
wish, in such a way that it is accessible to all, and then think this
somehow also makes their production remarkably important.

---- I wrote back:

extortion? I don't want any money. You just never responded to me after getting free advertising. I'm going to make sure other people that are considering doing this know how your company works and what to expect.

extortion. .... sure.