Beaners
Posted on April 24th, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »
About 3 or 4 years ago, I was really into entering contests. A lot. I subscribed to about 10 different email/rss lists to get updates about all the latest contests. It ended up being really time consuming, so I don’t enter as much anymore. But, I’m still subscribed to a few of the better rss feeds since they usually also post about free offers available to Canadians. One of the sites was smartcanucks.ca.
Recently, someone posts (either as a comment on a blog entry or on the forum) that the company “Beaners” employs hairdressers who aren’t qualified (or something to that effect). I’ve never heard of Beaners, but from what I read, they are a hairdressing place targeted towards children. Ok. It turns out, that the statement was false - all workers are qualified (or registered, or something). So, a lawyer emailed the website asking the comment to be removed. So far, that’s fine. But then they threatened to sue. That seems a little overboard, but some companies are really sue-happy.
The comment was eventually deleted. But, the letter from the lawyer was also posted to the blog in the meantime - where the lawyer threatened to sue and asked for the comment to be deleted.
Then the lawyer sent another email to the site indicating that they weren’t allowed to post the letter from the lawyer. That’s way over the line! The letter wasn’t illegal to post and the site wasn’t breaking any laws by posting it.
Anyways, the site eventually took down the letter along with the original post about how the hairdressers weren’t qualified. I hate that the site backed down when the company obviously didn’t really have an argument about the letter being taken down.
I’d never heard of Beaners before now, but I’m sure going to avoid them in the future…if I ever have kids..who need haircuts.



















