posted on
September 01, 2008 at 06:50PM
Inappropriate?
The idea of a retailer reaching out to customers is a great and admirable idea, but I honestly feel this site is phony and not a serious attempt at it.
1. Lack of Sears and K-Mart branding - this site looks nothing like sears.com or kmart.com. The only branding is a tiny logo with the words "SK-YOU" that looks like a 13 year old did in Photoshop. There isn't even a Sears Holdings Corporation copyright line at the bottom. Any idiot on the internet could lift the Sears and K-Mart logo and create a site.
2. Many screen names seem fake - "Searsmom" and "Iluvsears" are prime examples. To me they appear to be either bots or fake names created to have fake posts.
3. Many posts seem fake - The general language in the posts that are made by the above screennames and by "Staff" simply do not consist with the way people normally speak online or offline. I find it odd that a lot of the screen names that appear to be fake have lavished Sears and K-Mart with praise in posts that appear to be fake.
4. Some of the few people here that I know are real because I have seen them on other forums have suggested some real changes that I know Sears Holdings Corporation would never implement.
5. The software for the forum here is woefully under-powered. A good example is the recent spamming. Any other forum software would have flood controls or CAPTCHA to prevent posts from being posted in those quantities or at that speed. I would also like to add that at any other forum the spammer would have been banned and his posts deleted by moderation staff.
Thats about all I can think of right now. For me, this site is a crock and has no credibility. No BS line from "AskRob" will change that view as I doubt he is even a real person.
If this site is real and the people are real, prove it!

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