I'm helping a non-profit group here in Washington State. We'll call them the "Z group". There's a another group (let's call them the "Asshats") that isn't in direct competition to what the Z Group does, but wants to make life difficult for them anyway (it's a long story). They've really tried to f*ck them over in some pretty sleazy ways. It's a matter of being the biggest dog in the pack and throwing their weight around just to show they can- no other reason than that. In other words, they're asshats (hence the name).
I told the head of the Z Group that I'd help him out with some stuff, and then, as I was helping them, I found out about the Asshats and their underhanded bullshit. Now, the Asshats are charging a whole lotta $$$ for their services, which aren't terribly impressive. They've grown fat and complacent not having any real competition so they treat the members of their group like crap, do practically nothing for them, and offer little in the way of services or tools.
I didn't like the way they treated my friends at the Z Group, so I decided to shake things up a bit.
After building the Z Group a really nice site (for free), I built
another site that does more or less the same thing that the
Asshats site does...only a whole lot better if I do say so myself. It's slicker, faster, has a lot more of everything, and offers a ton of stuff that they couldn't even
pronounce, let alone reproduce and provide to their members. Mwuahahahah #1.
I now hear that the leader of the Asshats saw the second site I built and is having a
major brain cramp over it. Apparently she's practically shitting her drawers and is calling "emergency meetings" of the Asshats board members in order to find out "what to do" about me. The simple answer is "nothing", they can't do a goddamn thing about me, but they haven't figured that out yet. They will, though. Mwuahahahah #2.
Third, I decided to
punish them for being Asshats, so I'll be offering a whole lot of great services and stuff to their members for practically nothing, roughly one-tenth the cost of what the Asshats charge. Plus, the Asshats don't have anything like what I'm making available to their members. Some of them saw what I built for 'em and went bonkers, they really liked it.
For example...the Asshats charge $300 to join their national group, plus $299 for a State membership. On top of that they charge $250 a year for one of their fairly lame-ass services. (Did I mention you have to join the national group in order to be
allowed to join the State group? You do.) So you're looking at about $900 just to get in the door.
I'm going to offer all of my stuff to their members for about $99 a year (lol) which includes everything they do plus a whole lot more. I hear through the grapevine that the Asshat board members are "very upset" with me. lol
The reason I mention this is that I just got done building something that replaces their $250/year service, and it'll be free. lol. I am
so gonna kick their ass. They really shoudn't ought'na tried to f*ck over my friends at the Z Group, I can tell you that. lol
I guess the moral of the story is, "don't be an Asshat, or someone like me will come along and run your ass over."
