"Have advertisers ever quit TMP over bad reviews?" Topic

You cannot advertise on TMP or have news stories without a lot of negative flack.
I wonder if any advertisers have ever left in a rage over bad reviews?

I rmemeber once when I wondered if some sculptor had ever seen a woman's body. Outrage ensued, but compared to others' rants about other products, I thought that was pretty tame criticism. I heard later that that company left in a snit, but cannot be sure.
That's nothing compared to what Battlefront and Games Workshop have to put up with.

JJ,
Those are some extremely cool figs!
Thanks,
Kevin

Well, in the famous case you refer to above, the company chose to go out of business – which had the indirect effect of cancelling their advertising!

(The only good news being that someone else bought the models, and they are TMP advertisers.)

Advertisers seldom give me a reason when they stop advertising, and it is only months or years later when I hear the rumor "oh, they quit TMP, they didn't like such-and-such…" that I find out the (real?) reason. If they give a reason, it's usually "cash flow" or "trying other forms of advertising" or "temporary shut down" (which may be permanent – sometimes they don't return, sometimes they go out of business!).

Or sometimes the advertisers come back to TMP, and then I may finally learn why they left in the first place.

Bottom line: I don't recall any advertiser ever telling me at the time that they were quitting over a bad review/comment.

Battlefront and Games Workshop

Do they ACTUALLY advertise here?
Are they paid advertisers?
I don't ever remember seeing them here in an 'official' presence.

Battlefront and Games Workshop

Do they ACTUALLY advertise here?
Are they paid advertisers?

Battlefront is a TMP advertiser.

Games Workshop is not.

Still picking that scab??

All miniatures are distorted to make them look "right". But through that lens, the sculpt in question was a lot more like a real woman than most of the Barbie dolls. An excellent sculpt along with the others in the series.

Pity Bill doesn't exile people for being boorish.

You'd be gone, Hew. That 1.14 ratio didn't happen by happy accident.

Heck, the place would be a ghost town. Bill might even exile himself for good measure because commiting forum genocide by exiling most of us is pretty darn boorish in itself.

Damn straight. It's hard work.

Obnoxious? maybe. Boorish? no. That distinction belongs to those who post a lot and have nothing to say.