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About that “Join My Class Action Suit” ad

I was getting ready to turn thumbs down on the BlogAd in the right column, the one that looks like it was placed by a class action lawyer soliciting clients. (Reader comments welcome: should we turn down ads promoting litigation?) Then I took a closer look at it… Update Aug. 3: much more on the […]

I was getting ready to turn thumbs down on the BlogAd in the right column, the one that looks like it was placed by a class action lawyer soliciting clients. (Reader comments welcome: should we turn down ads promoting litigation?) Then I took a closer look at it…

Update Aug. 3: much more on the ad, from the WSJ.

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11 Comments

  • alltel really went all out on marketing for this circle plan đŸ™‚

    • By Steven

  • I say if a trial lawyer is willing to put an ad on overlawyered then let him. Every click (presumably) costs him money while earning revenue for the site. It would be interesting to see how the many overlawyered visitors who are fed up with the excesses of the legal system treat an ad they know costs a trial lawyer $ every time they click it. It almost sounds like a stress killer.

  • Actually, the way BlogAds works, I don’t think it costs the advertiser any extra sum when a visitor clicks. That aside, I’d hope our readers are a grown-up bunch who would scorn to click from such motives. Maliciously choosing to inflict expense on someone just because you’re mad at them is an unworthy idea whether the expense-infliction consists of dragging them into a lawsuit, putting a cherry bomb in their mailbox, or bleeding their ad budget through click imposture.

  • Please, turn down all ads from attorneys! Like yeast infections and other forms of mold, attorneys proliferate when you feed them. They must “incite” new cases to maintain their bloated lifestyles. Why helpthem grow?

  • I think the juxtaposition of an ad drumming up litigation with one that sells “murder consultants” is quite poignant, even if unintentional. Shakespeare would be proud.

  • It seems to me that the site may very well be a hoax, more as Steven alluded to, made to promote Alltel rather than a real suit.

    • By M-S-A

  • Um… I can’t see any ads. Are you hiding them?

  • I also don’t see any.

    • By Pat W

  • For some users (depending on the vagaries of individual monitors, software, etc.) the entire right column of links displays below the main text column, rather than on the right. On the other hand, if you can see the other elements of the right column (Greatest Hits, Search, Categories, Archives, etc.) but can’t see the two BlogAds, then there may be some problem with your system not picking up remotely served content from the BlogAds site.

    And of course if you’re reading through an RSS feed, you won’t see the ads at all unless you come on over to the site proper: https://www.overlawyered.com .

  • “Please, turn down all ads from attorneys! Like yeast infections and other forms of mold, attorneys proliferate when you feed them. They must “incite” new cases to maintain their bloated lifestyles. Why helpthem grow?”

    I could not agree more, serious or junk, it’s still junk for this site!

    • By TC

  • Walter,

    Please consider installing “blocking” software to make it impossible for people who can’t tell a joke when they see one to read OL.

    On the other hand, since I had to waste at least 1.203 minutes of my valuable time discovering this fact (and I already use Alltel) I will have to sue you for $8.42.

    Sorry, but if I have learned anything here, it’s the more frivolous the lawsuit, the more likely of its success.

    BaDaBump

    PS – Congrats on the nice mention in Reader’s Digest

    • By Bumper