paghat wrote:
If I were in need of services you offer or products you sell, or a friend
asked me about your reliability, I would say that all I iknow for sure is
yr a continuous spammer in newsgroups, and I would recommend against
trusting such an outfit, as anyone who keeps making up advice no one
actually needed exclusively as an excuse to post spam for his services
websites and products would probably be sneaky about everything else to do
with business too.

If you put your constant self-promotion in a signature file and stopped
drawing big arrows to it, your commentaries might not look so exclusively
like crooked spam-scams & might be taken as sincere whether or not
misguided & inexpert.

It's only a secondary problem that the website you keep spamming people to
visit is so gosh darn ugly-ass ultra-amateur. Get one of the kids to
redesign it for you so you don't look like someone who probably couldn't
plant two trees side by side without making them look misplaced and stupid
just like the web design.

Also, get rid of such juvenile nonsense as that page "What to ask an
arborist." This comes off as some sort of game to hoodwink teenagers, &
they've got their dad's lawnmowers so won't be hiring you. The real
questions to ask someone claiming to be a "tree biologist" or even an
"arborist" is 1) Where did you serve your experimental garden internship;
2) what degree(s) from where; 3) are you licensed and bonded. Only a dork
would tell someone they need to ask the arborist "why is a tree a battery"
& it would take a medium-functioning Downs syndrome adult to take that
advice.

It is vaguely possible you actually have an education in the areas you
claim & the reason you seem like a fraud is because you communicate your
expertise so badly -- failing, for instance, to indicate any credentials.
You come off as a guy who read one book because you had a several copies
to sell, attended four workshops one about trees and three about promoting
a seedy internet business, got a few jobs mowing lawns & called that being
a tree biologist, all on the basis of piffle & booze.

Honest to god that how you come off, & after looking around your
ridiculous website I'd have to physically SEE your wacky-sounding "tree
biology" degree in order to fully assess your mastery of photoshop.

-paghat the ratgirl

From his address, he is close enough to me to employ. Thanks to his
posts, I know he is a tree man I would avoid. The guy I usually use is
far too busy to waste his time spamming.

Frank