dangtiredofit
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SCARY MOMMY blog site scam

Theyve inundated the mailboxes of every person who ever signed up on thee thinking it was a good supportive community for moms with sob story about their" hero" the owner of the site having a leaky ceiling because she let her kids play in the shower to long while she was dealing with the site...oh the guilt..and have solicited and received "donations" non stop for a month now..what will be next? What a crock..nice tax free income babe! First it was for chocolate and flowers for her then any extra for the repairs. They've dunned my inbox with every email touting a donation made...hundreds so far to the tune of how many thousands of dollars who knows? But they make sure that every one gets cc'd on hundreds of" feel good" emails a day which inspires others to donate and so on...its a numbers scam. Irs should jump on that. That site is all about money..when shes not trying to get you to buy her book theyre soliciting donations for some poor soul constantly. Its very shady. This blog has a paypql account. She should get a real job. Stay away from this site...a scam! should Get a real job!
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ok. let's break down YOUR attempt to discredit this complaint, NIKKI

in reply to "received donations for a month" you stated "...Actually it's been two weeks." AND then go on to refute your own claim when you asserted, re the emails solicited for money "the FIRST TWO (weeks)it was only people who had expressed interest in helping" right!

it's a scam. and Jill/Nikki, Nikki/Jill is tripping all over her own feet to cover it and make all nice with the public etc but will be hard pressed to explain all this when is contacted by the ones who've previously interviewed about all the "good works" done...happens all the time with public cons and scams in

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Only those interested? Not true!

I only ever went to that site twice and signed up for a newsletter that I've never got but have had plenty of mails to solicit her book AND I was on some mailing list with hundreds of others to solicit money for this too. Any replies get sent to all the list too.

So I agree with the complaint.. I haven't been on that site in several months, have never seen a newsletter, and only get solicited for money.

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My name is Nikki and I am the community manager of Scary Mommy. I was the one who followed through on some member ideas of sending Jill a gift.

It wasn't supposed to be more than flowers but we quickly realized how much the community WANTED to support her. It was totally volunteer and DOES NOT reflect on Jill Smokler.

Guest

Alright, lets break down your post and post the truth:

1. "theyve inundated the mailboxes of every person..." Actually, we added people that we could remember the screen names of, that we thought would want to make a small donation to help the Site owner (the site owner who pays for the site, and runs the site herself)

2. "received donations for a month" Actually it's been two weeks.

3. "inundated my inbox with every email touting a donation". Oh so you've been on the three message threads rallying donations? That's interesting since the first two it was only people who had expressed interest in helping that were added to those threads. It has only happened 3 times in the history of the site, and this is the first time we've done anything for the Site Owner.

4. "to the tune of how many thousands of dollars" Not thousands, barely even hundreds. If you would like to see a spreadsheet, I'm sure the other admin would be glad to show you. And if you are on that message thread, as you imply, than you would have received the most recent message that had the amount. It most certainly is not the "thousands" you claim.

5. they make sure that everyone gets cc'd on hundreds of "feel good" emails a day" Well that's just complete bull. Again, we've only have rallied donations three times, twice before Christmas. I have no idea where these "hundreds" of emails are coming from, it's most certainly not the site in question.

6. "That site is all about money" Yes a free site is all about money. If it were all about money, there would probably be some sort of cost to join.

Nothing that you have written is true, except the part about the flowers and chocolates and the ceiling damage. If you don't like the site, leave it, don't post baseless lies about it around the internet.

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