Gizmodo ’s Comments on MacPadd UnTrue , Erroneous , Unfounded and in dispute of its Own Terms of Service
A long awaited telephone conversation in early on in December 2009 with Nick Denton CEO of Gawker Media assured us that our response to the November Gizmodo clause would get gross and adequate “ play - time ” . All we wanted was for the erroneous and false article as written and blogged about , to be removed because it plunder Gawker Media ’s own Terms of Service . or else we were told that we could provide our response to the Gizmodo clause .
First of all we do n’t need to give Tom ’s Hardware or its self righteous and self absorb writer Tuan Nguyen any longer “ gentle wind time ” than really necessary since ALL of what he has put forward is false uncredible and slap of some fiend that you see on the nightly news .
secondly , Gizmodo did not endorse our company , they effectively reviewed our product about one year ago with some minor satire targeted at the Mac Community .
Third , the only cozenage or frauds that has been invest is by Nguyen who receive his production without compensate , lied to the general world about his experience and grossly misrepresent the fact . Gizmodo is not sinless in all of this either because without any obligation of care or due app , they assumed what was written by Nguyen was genuine without get hold of the other side of the issue and that in and of itself , in our opinion is a crime .
All of this smacks of national socialist propaganda ; Joseph Goebbels – If you tell a lie expectant enough and keep repeating it , people will eventually come to believe it .
The Gizmodo Article
To say that “ Sometimes we accidentally endorse companies ” is grossly put on in its entirety and linguistic context . The original clause of November 2008 is provide below ;
The Gadget : MacPadd , the anodized aluminium mousepad meant to match the finish on newer MacBook and MacBook Pros . It ’s about the size of a stock mousepad , if slenderly shorter than common ( but just as wide ) .
The Price : $ 25
The Verdict : Holy butterface , it works ! We originally thought it would be little more than a gimmick ; a shiny control surface that count groovy but tracked horribly . out of true ! As a pussyfoot surface for optical maser and optical black eye such as our deary , the Logitech MX 1100 , it works fine - or at least as well as normal mousepads .
It ’s also as corpulent as you ’d expect from something made out of metal , so there ’s the added bonus of it not thresh around as someone like Matt Buchanan vigorously plays Team Fortress 2 , or like Jesus Diaz when he intensely photo shops Steve Jobs ’ face onto models ( male person and distaff ) . The undercarriage of the MacPadd is a gooey melted - marshmallow grain that view as the launch area in property on your desk for add stability .
There are , as always , a few downsides . It ’s a few inches brusk in length than normal mouse launchpad - only one - and - a - one-half mouse lengths instead of about two - so you ’ll run out of room faster . It ’s also severe ( you cognize , metallic element ) so you ’re more likely to grate your wrist on the side as you ’re using it . And because it ’s made of aluminum , it ’s COLD . Using this in Chicago or New York during the wintertime would be a bad melodic theme unless you had the warmth turned up , but it ’s not too bad that you ca n’t deal with it .
At $ 25 though , it ’s not too expensive , and should last quite a morsel longer than normal pads that jade out over meter from friction . And when it boils down to it , you know you require an aluminum computer mouse lodgings , and this is a honorable mouse pad .
Gizmodo did not remark anything about the MacPadd company , therefore this comment about “ unintentionally endorsing our Company ” is unseasonable .
Gizmodo swear upon someone else who has dwell about his , potentiality , piece of work experience , client experience without reading the website about how we direct business . The first lesson in lifetime or as professional “ see it for yourself ” .
We attempted to get hold of the source of the Gizmodo clause but he refuse to respond to our emails or phone calls . Is there any good sense of fairness in this conduct in particular when you lie to the intact internet world in your article ?
It is more dissatisfactory that Gizmodo does not follow its own Terms of Service ( TOS ) whereby the commentary was delusive , calumnious and wild , in particular , tie in to privacy result . We spoke to on-line business executives who take over-the-top bar to protect their own private lives so that they quite frankly are not capable to the likes of Nguyen and upon discover our experience are scandalize at the harassment and misreporting that we have been expose to . Relative to business ethical motive the new targets for the social travesties in our country and afar has become the online channels .
The ezine , Comsumerist , skip over into the “ eating frenzy ” at the prompting of Nguyen who within a period of a workweek became disturbingly haunt with his $ 25.00 black eye launchpad not arriving by “ star trek conveyer belt , with a tracking telephone number ” . In addition , Nguyen decided to lead off a web log about his $ 25.00 mouse pad , then he set up a Twitter Account . Is any of this sound “ psycho creepy ” yet ?
The Consumertist reconsidered the selective information available and removed its article from its web log site December 10th .
Our internet site has been clear how we ship our product and the clock time factors demand . In addition , Nguyen just could not accept the fact , despite himself being born in Vietnam , immigrate to Canada and acquiring Canadian citizenship ( now working in the USA without a Green Card ) and having lived in Canada for 30 days could not think back or take the time to realize that Canada Post does not cater trailing numbers racket to USA addresses for the type of chain armour servicing ( we use Small Packet Air ) .
Here are some fact and full point related to the November 2009 Gizmodo review come to to MacPadd ;
• Gizmodo never endorsed MacPadd as society nor were they ever ask to , nor is this a pattern on its blogsite
• Gizmodo asked to review our merchandise
• Gizmodo was not “ highly gratuitous of our product ” in the November 2009 recap
• Gizmodo never made input on the company selling it or any inquiry on the owners or company itself .
• Gizmodo never endorsed MacPadd as a company
• Gizmodo has not done research on our company or product other than Lie from Nguyen
• Gizmodo was not asked to own or disown the ship’s company
• Gizmodo commented “ one sided ” the information related to the conversation by a self serving person
• Gizmodo stave refused to turn back our sound calls and electronic mail
• Gizmodo has refuse to off false content contrary to their own Terms of Service ( Gawker Media )
• MacPadd has a B+ rating with the Better Business Bureau
• Best of Media can not be found as a valid USA tummy ( their headquarters are in France )
• The long detailed account by Nguyen is again filled with Lie and misinformation that Gizmodo did not take the metre to set if any of it was genuine or false .
• The Tom ’s Hardware clause was altogether false
From our Canadian view , we now see how the USA became involved in a war in the Middle East in 2002 . It was based on fictive entropy to the humanity by its generals , President and vice President waste billions in resources , money and young living . The metier did not check their sources of information until log after the war had started and they push their agenda forward at the expense of soldier and the country . The pattern seems to go on with Gizmodo .
This is the real and honest account and our position related to Nguyen .
Preamble and Questions
With regard to this incident , from an alleged ironware review company , it beg the questions ;
• Why was Tom ’s Hardware retrospect a mouse pad ? They have never survey this type of technology ( ? ! ? ! ? ! ) before !
• Does Tom ’s hardware have any restricted engineer on faculty that could provide a credible technology review ? Does Tom ’s hardware have any business graduate on staff that could comment on clientele demeanour ? And what about ethics ?
• Was this incident a valid hardware critique or just someone taking out their consumer anxiety on some little petty caller ?
• When you buy a intersection do consumer depend at the measure on the site or do you establish your own criterion for livery or performance regardless of what is posted ?
• Is a computer mouse pad consider hardware ? Is this a continuation of the Mac Community hatred by Tom ’s Hardware or its author ?
THE fact AND NOTHING BUT fact
Nguyen ordered two MacPadds Friday October 23rd 5:41 pm GMT ( Friday evening after our office end ) .
MacPadd did not address the order until Monday October 26th ( the first business enterprise day after the weekend )
Nguyen received check of his order from PayPal immediately upon commit his order .
MacPadd ’s policy is to have Cartesian product shipped within 7 patronage mean solar day ( see website ) or in this instance to be shipped by November 3 , 2009 .
There were emails from Nguyen but there was nothing to report . Our experience with more advanced online order systems is that they have automatic responders identifying that the club is in progress . We do not wage in such service .
The product was packaged and labelled for ship former October 29th and delivered to the post office Friday October 30th .
Nguyen bring out a PayPal dispute Friday , October 30th at 3:41 pm GMT 5 business organization days after the order was receive and 3 hours before his 13 calls to MacPadd proprietor ’s mansion house . MacPadd possessor does not make his personal destination available however , it was obtained by Nguyen and posted on Tom ’s Hardware web site . A falling out of privacy and its own Terms of Service .
MacPadd answer to the PayPal dispute to Nguyen at approximately 3:55 pm GMT name the despatch had been send and would provide a tracking number ( not remember the order was from California however a Customs Declaration Form was available )
Friday evening , there were 11 telephone call to the MacPadd owner abode ( no one was abode ) ( call display shows who call and how many times ) . When the MacPadd owner arrived the call display showed the many phone calls but no vocalism postal service . We receive the 12th earpiece call at 7:09 pm that was threatening , scurrilous , intrusive and rude . Nguyen necessitate a tracking telephone number for the consignment .
Nguyen emailed my personal e-mail address several times starting at 7:16 autopsy Friday eve ;
David –
You have 10 minutes after this e-mail is sent to reply with a valid tracking number for the 2 MacPadds .
Or else we will be force to spell an article about you and the company .
Regards /
Tuan Nguyen
Director of News Operations
for APPEASE Nguyen ’s time sensitive demand , MacPadd owner attempted to provide the tracking phone number from its paper files that eventide . See e-mail listing screen shot below .
MacPadd erroneously provide a trailing bit that had a date of 2025-03-29 ( March 10th ) instead of the one that was 2025-03-04 ( October 30th ) not earn Nguyen was from the USA .
Regardless and as a matter of fact , his order was manually prepared and no raise Canada Post tracking number was available however , the Canada / USA Customs Declaration forms were complete and provided as grounds in this document .
The 13th scurrilous and demanding telephone conversation Friday eventide at 7:35 pm by Nguyen to the residence of MacPadd resulted in MacPadd stating that it no longer want his business and is issuing a refund . Nguyen did not require a repayment and refuse several times however , MacPadd made the decision for avoid further conversations and confrontations .
MacPadd terminated the business human relationship with Nguyen at 7:40 pm October 30th , Friday night , based on the 13 headphone call and demeanour of the telephone conversation and the electronic mail .
From MacPadd ’s perspective there was no obligation or involvement to continue any dialogue , render any entropy in illumination of the refund . As a resolution to the PayPal difference of opinion as filed by Nguyen Friday afternoon 3:41 pm , MacPadd authorized a repayment as a result former Sunday dawning November 1st at 5:01 am GMT . base on the PayPal policies Nguyen ’s payment was hold in suspension outside of the control of MacPadd effective 3:41pm October 30th . There was no opportunity for fraud or “ ripping him off ” .
See refund email confirmation silver screen shot . PayPal did not settle the conflict , QMS / MacPadd AUTHORIZED a repayment to Nguyen . There were no innuendos relating to fraudulent activities by PayPal .
Throughout the weekend there were several menacing emails ( see modest sample above ) from Nguyen despite the issuance of a repayment .
For the record ;
• MacPadd has been a product offering for 1 year with one BBB complaint ( lost loading by postal system ) ( except or Nguyen whose ailment was nullified )
• MacPadd or QMS Inc has a B+ rating from the BBB
• MacPadd has never been contact by Police or FBI for possible fraud activities as Nguyen would have you believe
• The “ split - off ” website information was brought to our attention for the first time and each take as identified therein were addressed direct .
• MacPadd does not make false claims
• MacPadd has never committed fraud and never will
• Apple is aware of MacPadd and have think selling the product on their website
• MacPadd met with and talked with several Apple voice regarding the sale of our product . No business concern were expressed at the time of discourse .
• MacPadd is letters patent pending
• MacPadd has sell to over 8,000 customer
All of what has been attempted by Nguyen to discredit our practice and us has been refuted with grounds . What remain is the half-crazed self - righteous individual who himself and Tom ’s Hardware has a great stack to hide .
http://www.techimo.com/forum/imo-community/73275-tom-pabst-thg-afraid-come-us.html
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-Toms-Hardware-Guide-pwnd-the-industry-then-lost-it
Let ’s put this into linear perspective .
MacPadd is just a computer mouse pad !
The MacPadd product was create by the owner , for the owner . There were many other people who learn the estimate as it was being developed and wanted it as well . If demand diminishes than the offering will close down . It is not my support .
The online business effort has been interesting and up to the engagement of the Tom ’s Hardware incident , a play experience .
Finally , with Nguyen ’s allegement of fraud , this is a matter of linear perspective or better yet ignorance .
“ We explore the Tom ’s Hardware internet site to count for article on Madoff , Ebers , Stanford , Global Crossing , Enron just to name a few .
Despite these multi trillion dollar bill pretender against the world , none of the Tom ’s sites has a single article about these financial and social travesties . ”
Somehow Tom ’s and Nguyen has now become an expert on pretender as both prosecutor and jury . It begs the question , what are the purported experience or educational qualifications of Tom ’s or Nguyen to make this kind of allegation ?
Is n’t ironic that a trivial $ 25.00 mouse inkpad can stimulate so much angst and wrath while the accuser are in a country of moral and legal ignorance .
Gizmodo’s / Gawker Media ’s Term of Service
Gawker Media the possessor of Gizmodo terms of service of process can best be distill as keep an eye on and in its own words ;
• Do not post heavy , harassing , defamatory , or libelous material .
• Do not advisedly make false or shoddy statements .
• Do not offer to trade or bribe any product or service .
• Do not post material that conflict right of first publication .
• Do not post entropy that you know to be secret or sensitive or otherwise in rupture of the law of nature .
If Gawker Media experience notice that Material post is not in keeping with these terms and circumstance or the intended use of the Comments department where it is posted , we reserve to right hand to take out the material .
It is sincerely dissatisfactory that Gizmodo would , themselves , post information on their blog site that is in contravention of its own term of Service ( provoke , false , defamatory , shoddy , etc . ) .
Definition of defamation ( Wikipedia ) ; is the communication of a assertion that pee a call , expressly stated or imply to be factual , that may give an individual , business , Cartesian product , grouping , regime or res publica a negative range of a function . It is usually , but not always,[1 ] a requirement that this title be false and that the publishing is communicated to someone other than the person defamed ( the claimant ) .
TOM ’S HARDWARE POST SCRIPT
Tuan received his MacPadd and a refund . He has yet to repay the product as teach during our last conversation . If anyone could claim put-on or stealing it is MacPadd on an someone who has not paid for a Cartesian product he has admittedly received . This product we sent was not a giving .
QMS Inc nor McPadd has never or would ever meditate or perpetrate fraud . The challenge to anyone making the allegation is to prove it . dupery in Canada is the intent to deceive . We have 8,000 client that have not been cozen .
There have been instances where it seems either product has been lost in the post ( national postal system ) or customer have report missing product for claim a refund . In this instance , the only entity that has been deceived is MacPadd by misreporting . We elected to habituate the USA and Canadian Postal Service . That is prevailing every step of the elbow room in the advertising and buying process .
For the record , during the 13th telephone call to my home , Nguyen inquire what I was doing at that present moment whereby I could not run to the office and get him his trailing number ; I answer “ I was have a beverage with my wife ” . After all it was Friday Nox and we were starting to relax for the weekend . If that is a crime or a headline , then it should look in every newspaper every week for over 175,000,000 people in North America , not just myself .
Tuan became more inquisitive and he asked what credentials I had to operate my business I responded with my professional and donnish background ( MBA , Engineer , Certified Management Account , I model on the Board of Governors for our profession ) . There was no crowing , just reception to his personally intrusive questions . If I had known that any of this might have been fodder for an uncredible internet site like Tom ’s Hardware there would have been no conversation .
As the conversation became more flaky and abusive I identify that the conversation was over and Nguyen was get a refund . All of what was being said was unearthly . I wo n’t get into the verbal central because quite frankly it was ludicrous , abusive and aweless . I did say that our business organization relationship was over and “ get out of my life ” after several threats . I do not apologize for my statement or military position .
This statement made it unmortgaged that I did not want to talk to this person ever again and I did not desire him call my sign of the zodiac ever again . Unfortunately that did not stop him , his acquaintance or co - workers phone calls from go on to call to harass and leave scurrilous messages ( We had the police follow all speech sound vociferation and emails ) . None of what we have described should fathom like a static someone or anyone I would want to do business with . We could advance our other findings in this matter but that would just make the individual to become more self - righteous and create and post more falsehoods to fulfil his part and docket .
The only faker that has occurred in this instance is the multitude of falsehoods by Nguyen on his website and the breaches of Tom ’s Hardware own Code of Conduct , and Terms of Service .
This is a record and instruction of an incident falsely and irresponsibly report by Tom ’s Hardware and Gizmodo . We acclaim Consumers who had the decency to agnize a mistake and chastise it . We believe Gizmodo should have enough grapheme to do the same . Tom ’s Hardware and Nguyen are beyond Leslie Townes Hope and we are considering legal remedies in this matter .
David Free
The Creator of MacPadd
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