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Posted by Pat in Atlanta on May 18, 2007, 8:48 am
I love Angie's list. Use it all the time and never been unhappy with it.
> Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
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>> jJim McLaughlin wrote:
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>>>Ya' think maybe nobody here has any opinions on the
>>>Angie's list in St. Louis?
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>>>I have plenty of opinions on the Angie's list in Portland, OR.
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>> Why don't you share them with us? I'd be interested in reading them.
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> Its an advertising scam, IMHO.
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> I was looking for chimny sweeps.
> Already knew several local companies to avoid like the plague.
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> Went to Angie's List. Had to "register" and provide detailed data.
> Already, my antennae are twitching.
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> Get into the site.
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> Exactly one chimney sweep,
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> A local company with a bad reputation, IMHO.
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> A day or so after "registering" the deluge of E mail ads begins.
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> Fortunately I had used a throw away E mail address.
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> IMHO, a pure advertising scam used to harvest and validate E mail
> addys.
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> Also, IMHO, will put any vendor in the data base who pays a fee.
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> YMMV.
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