Friday, October 12, 2012

Hasbro vs. Pocket of Urbantaggers.com

I can't believe this! I just read an article about how Hasbro scammed an Australian blogger (Pocket) into giving out his address so their idiot lawyers could send a couple of goons to harass him and demand answers to their questions. Nice job shooting yourself in the foot and losing one of your biggest promoters, Hasbro. Read the full article below:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/04/24/nerf-guns-at-10-paces-hasbro-faces-boycott-after-siccing-lawyers-onto-fan-site/
Here is the original Urban Taggers post and Pocket's perspective:

By now the issue with Hasbro and the lawyers has been resolved--Hasbro finally got their shit together and cleared up the matter. Pocket did end up getting his Pinpoint Sights, and life is back to normal. Anyways, here is Pocket's post on Urbantaggers about the eventual resolution of the Hasbro fiasco:
http://urbantaggers.blogspot.com/2012/05/pinpoint-sights-arrived-resolution.html
This whole situation accentuates a bigger problem that manifests itself in larger companies--different organizations failing to communicate. I have worked at a large corporation, and there is definitely a feeling of isolation that is not present in smaller startups. Pocket got his Pinpoint Sights, but will this happen again?

~T

2 comments:

  1. Hey man, this is like 5 months late. :D

    I don't know if you saw Pockets other post about this.......

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  2. Yeah I linked it right above the meme. Simply apalling!

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