Just cancelled my membership to Blue Mountain

[garybeck]

check out this card on Blue Mountain. you won't believe it:

http://www1.bluemountain.com/display.pd?path=35290&bfrom=1&prodnum=3117215

story on RawStory:

http://www.rawstory.com//news/2007/National_greeting_card_company_associates_Love_0214.html

[AlCzervik]

1. That was a user made card. I never even heard of this company until yesterday.

i don't really care for ecards, i like to go the store, take some time picking one out and actually mailing it. You kids and your new fangled technology, now get offa mah lawn.

[garybeck]

3. I know it was a user made card

that doesn't change anything... their website is not a free for all. I believe everything is submitted and approved.

whether you like ecards or not is not the issue. I like them. They can be much more interactive than regular cards, which are made from dead trees.

I'm surprised you never heard of Blue Mountain, they're the biggest ecard site on the net.

[AlCzervik]

5. the only ecards i've ever seen were from Hallmark.

and you can can greeting cards made from recycled materials.

[KalicoKitty]

10. Blue Mountain is owned by American Greetings

I will boycott American Greetings and stick with Hallmark.

[rinsd]

19. Yeah give to a RED cpmpany instead of a BLUE one

This is like stopping buying things on ebay or cafepress because you object to one seller's political item.

[KalicoKitty]

23. I was not aware of their politics.

n/m

[garybeck]

27. what makes you say American Greetings is a blue company?

[rinsd]

35. I found the old company was 100% Blue. American Greeting is certainly not

That was my mistake. That still doesn't make your reaction anymore rational as I have stated dealing with member communities.

I'm not even sure where they found that card. I couldn't find it on the website beyond the direct link provided. It doesn't show up under their "tree" of Valentine's day. You can find it by searching for Pelosi. So if your issue was with editorial oversight that appears to have worked itself out.

[KalicoKitty]

28. Why didn't they censure it then??

[rinsd]

36. That's a Democratic solution?

Who cares about some poor attempt at humor that has gotten way more attention because of overreation than it would have if people shrugged their shoulders finding it unfunny and moved on?

You would prefer a oversight body that censures objectionable material?

[garybeck]

21. recycled greeting cards

yes I know they are available. I used to sell them. but you probably have to drive to a different store if you can find them, and that means burning more fossil fuels. I'm not saying "real" cards are bad and ecards are great. i'm just mentioning these things because you were sort of criticising the use of ecards, and I wanted to point out there are some good things about them too. another thing is, you said there's a benefit to spending time looking at all the cards and choosing the one you want... the exact same thing happens with ecards. I don't think they're any less personal, just because they were delivered electronically.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Honestly, it's too damn lame to bother stressing about.

Do they have any anti-repuke ones to balance it out?

If not, then I guess I would understand your wanting to cancel.

As the poll on Faux's new TDS ripoff in GD points out, the humor is too mean-spirited and contrived to even be funny.

[garybeck]

4. i get your point

but I think it is still important to fight back even when it's stupid. the only way these folks listen is if you cut off some money. so I cancelled my membership, which was paid. If others do this, and I assume they are, someone will hear the message.

[rinsd]

6. So you cancelled your membership in a 100% BLUE company?

Because one member made a tasteless card?

http://www.buyblue.org/node/1874/view/summary

Do you still have a nose or have you spited your face?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. Do members create the cards or do employees? eom

[rinsd]

17. Both though it appears most cards are member created.(nt)

[garybeck]

22. even if the member creates a card, i'm sure it is reviewed

otherwise the site would turn into a huge Youtube fest with all kinds of crap. ultimately the company is responsible.

[rinsd]

33. Would you stop buying from CafePress because they sell GOP "humor" merch?

Would you stop viewing YouTube because someone posted a video making fun of liberals or Democrats?

Because this is basically the same thing.

[woo me with science]

20. LOL The eagerly outraged don't notice details like that, I guess. nt

[garybeck]

25. they are owned by American Greetings

and there is nothing on that bublue site about American Greetings.

no, I did not spit in my face, and I don't appreciate the comment.

[rinsd]

34. I'm sorry

Getting so worked up over one member of an enormous internet community making a rather poor attempt at humor that one cancels a membership is just strange.

[demnan]

7. Thanks, I just cancelled mine too

and I made sure to tell them why!

K&R

[KalicoKitty]

8. I just emailed them and complained...

http://www1.bluemountain.com/display.pd?path=35290&bfrom=1&prodnum=3117215

This is so disgusting and it is being spread on the web what a terrible thing to have on your site.

I request you withdraw this immediately!



I suggest others write to them and complain:

http://www.bluemountain.com/customer/emailus.pd

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

9. Out Of All The Petty Outrages We've Seen These Last Few Weeks, This One Takes The Cake.

Just when I think the petty crying can't get any worse, in comes a thread about an online card company that had a card available made by a USER on it that someone didn't like. Holy cow. I coudln't even begin to imagine giving a frog's fat ass about something so monumentally inconsequential.

[Laurab]

11. I think we have to say that again IT'S A USER-MADE CARD

the company is 100% BLUE. Should we start telling them that their users can only make cards we like, or we're going to cancel our memberships? (I'm a member). Should they start telling users what they can and can't make?

This is so ridiculous....

[garybeck]

31. I call bullshit.

everyone has their own level of tolerance for crap like this. you might laugh at it, others might cancel their memberships.

in the past, we've had an abundance of apathy. would you rather go back to that - where people did less than you want them to, not more?

the bottom line is this is not an isolated incident. I'm tired of the attacks on Pelosi and the rest. this is one opportunity I had to make a statement and I did.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

37. Sorry, My Reply Above Continues To Stand As A Perfectly Representative Expression Of My Take On This

Though just one man's opinion, I find the OP premise to be monumentally silly.

[GoneOffShore]

12. There doesn't seem to be a link to contact them

It would be a good idea to let them know how objectionable that is. I wouldn't mind it quite so much if there was one bashing Reptiles in the same fashion. Equal time is fine.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. I canceled my membership yesterday once I saw this, Total dispicable! I am

going to do a search of GOP "family value" members and forward them on to BM. Apt initials.....

[NotGivingUp]

15. good on you! if i was a member, i would do the same.

[Bluebear]

16. Just so you know, bluemountain is 100% blue and Hallmark is 87% red

If these are user cards, people are being directed away from patronizing a totally Blue company...just saying.

[KalicoKitty]

26. Thanks for the headsup...

If they are 100% "blue", why did they not censure it?

[Bluebear]

29. That I don't know, I would certainly email them!

:)

[KalicoKitty]

30. I DID email them.

I told them how disgusting it was and requested that they withdraw it.

[Lex]

39. Probably playing right into the Cons hands.

nt

[buckybadger2007]

18. It doesn't bother me...

... so what, I would be laughing my head off it were Cheney

[Buzz Clik]

24. Damn! And I thought Freepers were humorless.

:shrug:

[Beaverhausen]

32. So why don't you make your own card with Bush and Cheney in jail?

Or something else equally offensive and watch the freepers freak out.

This is the most ridiculous issue of outrage I have seen on DU lately. And that is saying something!

[Lex]

38. I agree.

nt