Comments on: What would you do? http://steveoliphant.com/blog/2007/08/30/what-would-you-do/ Reviews, Ramblings, Reminders Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:28:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By:   Cultivate Greatness, Success & Passion Blog Carnival #018 | Cultivate Greatness Personal Development, Leadership Training & Life Hacks http://steveoliphant.com/blog/2007/08/30/what-would-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-637   Cultivate Greatness, Success & Passion Blog Carnival #018 | Cultivate Greatness Personal Development, Leadership Training & Life Hacks Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:20:21 +0000 http://steveoliphant.com/blog/2007/08/30/what-would-you-do/#comment-637 [...] Steve Oliphant presents What would you do? posted at Steve Oliphant’s Musings. [...] [...] Steve Oliphant presents What would you do? posted at Steve Oliphant’s Musings. [...]

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]]> By: Life, Love, & Learning - …and Brausch is too? http://steveoliphant.com/blog/2007/08/30/what-would-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Life, Love, & Learning - …and Brausch is too? Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:28:29 +0000 http://steveoliphant.com/blog/2007/08/30/what-would-you-do/#comment-597 [...] Next go back to why you decided to participate in the contest in the first place. I was under the impression that you set out to get the record deal. That or the warm fuzzy feeling of decimating the competition or whatever else — have the glitches (human or technical, intentional or circumstantial) honestly had an impact on your initial goal? You’re allowing what seemed like good fun (woohoo! comes to mind) to be tainted by your interpretation of arbitrary events. The deck has always been stacked against you and yet you’ve become one of the 2%. Why should this contest be any different? (Hint, it isn’t.) Someone claiming to be Derek from CDBaby posted a reply that Brausch has a factor of two lead on the second place. Independent of who is announced winner of the contest I think everyone has won. Well, everyone will win when Brausch recognizes how many more people (800?) he will be reaching and helping. That is what you love to do, isn’t it James. [...] [...] Next go back to why you decided to participate in the contest in the first place. I was under the impression that you set out to get the record deal. That or the warm fuzzy feeling of decimating the competition or whatever else — have the glitches (human or technical, intentional or circumstantial) honestly had an impact on your initial goal? You’re allowing what seemed like good fun (woohoo! comes to mind) to be tainted by your interpretation of arbitrary events. The deck has always been stacked against you and yet you’ve become one of the 2%. Why should this contest be any different? (Hint, it isn’t.) Someone claiming to be Derek from CDBaby posted a reply that Brausch has a factor of two lead on the second place. Independent of who is announced winner of the contest I think everyone has won. Well, everyone will win when Brausch recognizes how many more people (800?) he will be reaching and helping. That is what you love to do, isn’t it James. [...]

]]> By: cdbaby http://steveoliphant.com/blog/2007/08/30/what-would-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-596 cdbaby Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:34:20 +0000 http://steveoliphant.com/blog/2007/08/30/what-would-you-do/#comment-596 I was surprised to find out that the winner of our contest thinks that our software update that was 2.5 years in the making was somehow an aggressive act of cheating one person out of sales. I have emailed James personally with some details, not worth going into here. But in short : during a massive software update, our site was down for 30 minutes, that's all. And an email James sent with his tracking numbers for warehouse restock were not received. I'm sorry to hear that James took it personally, but he's winning the contest (by far: over twice as many sales as the #2 slot) anyway. -- Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby I was surprised to find out that the winner of our contest thinks that our software update that was 2.5 years in the making was somehow an aggressive act of cheating one person out of sales.

I have emailed James personally with some details, not worth going into here. But in short : during a massive software update, our site was down for 30 minutes, that’s all. And an email James sent with his tracking numbers for warehouse restock were not received. I’m sorry to hear that James took it personally, but he’s winning the contest (by far: over twice as many sales as the #2 slot) anyway.

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Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby

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