Ocean Marketing is a one-man PR firm, run (solely) by Paul Cristoforo. N-Control is the company making the Avenger controller. The HAND Media (nice pun BTW) is another PR firm.
N-Control hired The HAND Media to do promo. N-Control also hired Ocean Marketing to do promo. Ocean and HAND clashed, and HAND was already fed up with N-Control’s problems meeting shipping deadlines and decided to back out of the deal. Ocean then went on to be a huge jerk and alienate customers. I don’t know if N-Control received a warning about Cristoforo or not. N-Control fired Cristoforo as soon as this all went down.
Yeah, in that email from The HAND the guy said they warned N-Control that this exact thing would happen someday with Cristoforo, but I don’t know if that’s an exaggerated claim or not. But you don’t ignore warnings from The HAND and get away with it.
I also like how if he is just a one man operation, whenever you refer to the company as just “Ocean” you are just talking about him, so it’s like a whole Ocean’s Eleven thing going on too.
So like “Ocean and HAND clashed” is a really awesome line in my head right now.
“Cristoforo” is also one of the most gino names ever, this dude is breaking no stereotypes, there is comedy from all angles here.
The HAND was their original PR firm, but they hired Ocean Marketing to help them throughout the holidays (since that was supposed to be when the Avenger released). The e-mail from The HAND says that Paul “strong-armed” N-Control into hiring him…not sure what that means exactly.
I agree with Gabe (Mike) in the fact that this guy got “caught” and that’s the only reason he’s “apologizing” (whining). If you’re worried about your wife and kids… don’t pick on kids on the internet. Seriously, this guy deserved everything that’s coming to him.
To the wife: If it’s really affecting you and your child, don’t marry roid’ed out douchebags. Also, I hear divorce is all the rage this day and age. If you decide to “stand by your man” in this case, eh, you deserve it too.
To the kid: … don’t let your dad teach you ANY life lessons.
ok so my only question is how did Gabe (Mike of Penny Arcade, right?) get into this whole conversation of emails? When Gabe wrote “The Pax east comment got my attention…” did Dave already send the emails to Mike, and then Mike jumped in the conversation by emailing Paul?
This whole thing is just fucking hilarious btw, glad the cunt got what he deserved.
As hilarious and deserved everything that has happened is, anybody throwing threats at the guys wife and son are pathetic fucking basement dwellers. I’d like to see the coward walk up to to some roided out freak and say “I’m gonna rape your son mang”.
Wow… this is in the guys “chance to be humble and apologize” news spot. This guy DOES. NOT. GET. IT. How he works for a PR firm is beyond me. I would fire him, I would disavow him and distance myself as much as possible… especially if I were his wife.
His saying that they approached him in a disrespectful manner which is not true, we all saw the emails and both Dave and Mike were very professional at the beginning.
His saying “if I would’ve know” , “I didn’t know who he was” those are the probably the worsts things he could be saying, to me that’s saying that in the future if he has an issue with somebody he knows has connections in high places or is somebody he will treat them with respect which is not the lesson that should be learned here. The point here is that he should treat every single costumer with the same respect he would treat the owner of major company.
Y’know I haven’t read this whole thread and I haven’t had time to go through the tl’dr OP with the original correspondence, but has anyone stopped to realize the super-awesome irony of the situation?
While this guy was apparently a dick and got fired because of it he’s actually probably done more good for the original company than he could have if he had’ve handled the situation properly. He gets fired for bad PR, but with this story spreading through the internet like wildfire the Avenger Controller (hell I didn’t know what it was until clicking on this thread) has probably gotten a huge amount of publicity.
Dude says he’s not going to take shit if it’s uncalled for… he needs to re-evaluate what he thinks marketing, public relations, and customer service is; pretty much 99% shit-eating from customers, clients, co-workers, bosses, etc.
Most of which is negative from their initial response,i feel bad that people who might get use out of the controllers might not get them but that cross will be born by someone else if n-control goes down in flames.
I feel no pity for them they are well aware their product live’s and dies from the way it’s marketed,they willingly got in bed with this prick
They would be sailing off into the sunset together had he brought them to greater heights but they want to cry fowl now?
Sorry guys it does not work that way.
I do like how his “apology” if you can really calling that is basicly just saying he is only really polite to people who he thinks he can get something out of.
It doesn’t matter who someone is, don’t be a dick full stop lol.
