Same email... stopped promoting way back before they started selling affiliate emails or whatever happened where spam started coming from the email that only Copeac had. Sad. It sucks and all that. Especially how Copeac and Mike were practically heroes here.
Everybody wants money, claims to be a boss and that they are the best, but how about ethics, responsibility and standards. Hopefully, this will serve to members, owners and affiliates here and elsewhere as a notice to change. Despite the money made, to establish good business practices, ethical business models and standards that can last. Companies built on solid foundations and not sand. Solid, ethical, credible foundations, not better methods to be a scumbag, avoid taxes, mislead or cheat people.
Despite the money made it does not last forever. It hurts the industry within itself and it causes government to step in regulate, overreact and overreach. Which in the end causes people to make less money.
The part of this that is disturbing is not only the end results of Copeac, but that members here knew of this, helped to hide it, did not stop it before it happened and defended Copeac or others like Copeac or simply sat to the side because they saw it a gain for themselves or do not care for the community. The only look out for myself mentality is a huge factor in the current state of the industry.
There needs to be a reboot. Advertisers, publishers, data brokers, list managers, methods, practices, products, everything. Industry wide.
Scary? Sure. Worth it? Even more.