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Old 04-29-2008, 09:26 PM
Jason Dunn
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While I support a business wanting to target their ads to any audience they want to, I'm constantly running up against these geographical barriers. When is the marketing world going to wake up to the fact that there is something called the Internet that lets shoppers see and order products across borders?
I know, it's pretty ridiculous. Unless a company doesn't ship to Canada, I don't see why they'd not want to advertise to us. Although even when companies don't ship to Canada, I'll often find their product on eBay - so it's ridiculous that they don't want us to know about their products. And this goes for the rest of the world as well - Microsoft might not sell the Zune outside the US, but people all around the world are buying Zunes.

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Jason, if I were you I'd be all over them for lost ad revenue since those of us who visited your sites immediately shut those tabs due to the huge annoyance factor...I hope you are being compensated for lost goodwill while you are at it.
That would be nice, but they offered me an apology and nothing more.

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BTW, I've managed to support your other advertising links by checking out what they were promoting. I figure reputable advertisers and their channels should be supported.
That's great Karen, thank you for your support. I believe really firmly that if every time someone visited a Web site, they clicked on an ad they found interesting, we'd see even more great content from publishers - because more of them would be able to afford to do this full time.
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