[UPDATE] Ocean Marketing's Former Client Disowns Shady PR Firm

vansau

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[UPDATE] Ocean Marketing's Former Client Disowns Shady PR Firm

Now that it's fired the man who nearly destroyed its reputation, the company behind The Avenger controller accessory is taking a lot of good steps to clean up the mess.

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Tzekelkan

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Unfortunately Paul still seems to take this a bit lightly. In that interview he did, he said he was impressed with Mike Krahulik's "contacts". Mike tweeted that the guy must be a bit insane, and I agree.

He really doesn't get it, does he? And apparently, if what Paul says is true, the other companies he's representing are just "laughing it off" and he hasn't lost any other accounts. I bet if he actually named a few of them they'd laugh less and run more. In any direction. Away from Paul Christoforo. You know, after the Internet was done teaching why it's wise to do so.

Guess there's no bus nor fire big enough to squash this man.
 

HobbesMkii

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Funnily enough, I'd never heard of the Avenger but did think it was a fascinating product after hearing about it from this mess. Hefty price tag, though.
 

robert022614

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I think I had way too much fun following this story hopping all over penny arcade, kotaku and here of course. This guy just barely made it into my crazy crap that happened in 2011 list.
 

DustyDrB

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I just want to know if I can start using Christoforo as a verb now (I guess for when your douchey behavior backfires). Or an adjective: a act of Christofororian ignorance.
 

vansau

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DustyDrB said:
I just want to know if I can start using Christoforo as a verb now (I guess for when your douchey behavior backfires). Or an adjective: a act of Christofororian ignorance.
Um... yes. I have no problem with this whatsoever.
 

Antari

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Atleast it looks like they'll be taking steps to make sure nothing like this ever happens to them again. I can't say this has affected my view of the product or the company. In this case its all on the idiot. A record breaking idiot even.
 

robert022614

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The funny thing is even after this all blows over. This guy will be the poster man-child of bad customer service and anyone after him will probably bring his name up.

To conclude his name will definitely be there and christofororian is great if not a little too correctly spelled for his sake.
 

vansau

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cursedseishi said:
To respond to that update, and all of this in general...


Are we sure he has a wife and child? Because I know women love them some bad guys and all, but there has to be a line somewhere between bad and "inbred-worthy inarticulate jackarse". THAT can't possibly be up any girls alley, can it?

The only thing I can think of that might constitute "abuse" would be his own hand, at which case I wonder "How does someone make their own hand hate them so that it calls the police on its own accord?"
Yup. I asked about that. Not sure if the woman is actually his wife, but she is his baby mama and the kid exists, too.
 
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Judging by Christoforo's responses to all this, at least in the public eye, he really doesn't seem to realise just how deep the pile of shit he is in.

Seriously, this guy is going to lose all his money, possibly face jail time, and he's still acting like a massive douche.

'Like, yeah bro, totally showing those Penny Arcade guys who's number 1, like totally bro!'
 

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This is not a guy who's acting like he's got a wife and son who are being harassed. If they do exist, I think that crap about using them for pity was exactly that and the harassment never actually occurred. He's acting like someone who's been jilted by his old employers by holding on to these accounts and nothing other than that.
 

GaltarDude1138

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Well, no Merry Christmas for Christoforo!

I sincerely liked the "there is no bus big enough to throw him under" quote by the new guy...
 

Tanis

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He has a kid...so this means a woman slept with him, willing (he's not in jail), at least ONCE.
 
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Tanis said:
He has a kid...so this means a woman slept with him, willing (he's not in jail), at least ONCE.
Hey, we can't all have superb standards now, can we.

Morons need love too, you know :D
 

Something Amyss

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Tanis said:
He has a kid...so this means a woman slept with him, willing (he's not in jail), at least ONCE.
That just means he was never convicted. >.>

Good on the makers of the Avenger for taking these steps. This is hard to overcome, because this guy was SUCH a jerk, but it's steps in the right direction.
 

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vansau said:
[UPDATE] Ocean Marketing's Former Client Disowns Shady PR Firm

Now that it's fired the man who nearly destroyed its reputation, the company behind The Avenger controller accessory is taking a lot of good steps to clean up the mess.

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This man is digging himself a professional grave. And I mean he will never recover, never work in PR anywhere again... except perhaps in politics. But honestly, this folks is an example of how to be a douchebag, get blacklisted from your chosen profession and universally hated AND prove there IS such a thing as BAD PR.