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I got a Letter from the Canadian National Exhibition :-(

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I was check­ing my email now when I found an email from J.B. (I won’t write her name to pro­tect her pri­vacy) the Corporate/Group Sales Admin­is­tra­tor at the Cana­dian National Exhi­bi­tion ask­ing me in a very polite man­ner to remove the post I had on the Cana­dian National Exhi­bi­tion reduced ticket prices and also remove the CNE logo.

Here’s the letter:

Dear “Boo Radley”:

Kindly remove the CNE logo and cor­po­rate code infor­ma­tion from your web­site as the use of these items is unauthorized.

Thank you for your atten­tion to this matter.

J. B.
Corporate/Group Sales Admin­is­tra­tor
Cana­dian National Exhibition

I under­stand the code I posted is espe­cially for cor­po­rate cus­tomers so I will remove it today as she requested.

What I don’t com­pre­hend, is why J.B.’s ask­ing me to remove the Cana­dian National Exhi­bi­tion logo? :-( . This is an exhi­bi­tion all of us Cana­dian are proud of… why can’t we get to pro­mote it and spread the word? The CNE logo I posted had CNE’s date and web­site address. This logo did noth­ing more than pro­mote and pro­vide some sort of free adver­tis­ing for the CNE. How would remov­ing it help CNE?

When I posted about the Cana­dian National Exhi­bi­tion I was very thrilled (you’ll notice I added two smi­ley faces which I don’t often do). I’m dis­ap­pointed that this exhi­bi­tion has turned from some­thing all Cana­di­ans pride and cher­ish to yet another com­mer­cial pro­duc­tion. I will remove the logo and I don’t care about the CNE anymore.

and J.B. if you read this (and you prob­a­bly will), let me give you some advice before you con­tact some­one else:

- I sug­gest you don’t use your sympatico.ca email address because there is no way of ver­i­fy­ing whether you really work at the CNE. Use a user­name@TheEx.com

- Your email was short and to the point but a word of moti­va­tion thank­ing the blog­ger for pro­mot­ing the CNE for noth­ing in return but good­will would have been nice.

- It looks like sev­eral web­sites out there have the CNE logo so you bet­ter start email­ing them to have all logos removed before CNE 2007. Some are as old as 2004.

19 Responses to “I got a Letter from the Canadian National Exhibition :-(”

  1. MRomero

    I can under­stand their position.

    As for the removal of their logo and link you pro­vided, I don’t get it. Per­haps she felt there was no need for you to keep any of it up, since the rea­son you have it up is because of the cor­po­rate code.

    Maybe if you adver­tised to Tour Oper­a­tors she would have appre­ci­ated your “link­age” but what can you do?

    As for the @sympatico email, she was prob­a­bly try­ing to pro­tect her work account incase you decided to splash it all over your front page for lit­tle kid­dies to spam. :p

  2. jimmycanuck

    What a load of crap. I’ve never liked the CNE — it’s like Con­klin exploded and tripled their prices while entic­ing with such thrilling exhi­bi­tions as “A Cana­dian His­tory of Loom­ing” and “Don Knotts, We Hardly Knew Ye.”

    CNE can go **** up a pole. Viva la SmartCanucks!

  3. Boo Radley

    MRomero, I think the main prob­lem is that these com­pa­nies still can­not appre­ci­ate the power of online mar­ket­ing. Many Cana­di­ans spend some time on the Inter­net every­day. Instead of spend­ing mil­lions on mar­ket­ing they can eas­ily and more cost-effectively make use of online mar­ket­ing; and CNE was lucky: it got free mar­ket­ing from many deals web­sites! Even though the code was intended for cor­po­rate mem­bers the code would have prob­a­bly moti­vated new peo­ple to go to the CNE who would oth­er­wise have not gone to the CNE 2006.

    @sympatico email looks like her per­sonal email so spam­ming it is worse for her lol.

    lol at your com­ment jimmy :)

    I replied back. You can read my reply here:
    http://smartcanucks.ca/2006/08/27/my-reply-to-the-canadian-national-exhibition-cne-2006/

  5. Vicky

    I can’t fig­ure out the ratio­nal behind that request… to remove the exhi­bi­tion logo.

    As you stated it is a pub­lic exhi­bi­tion for all .CA peeps…
    Oh well…

    Vicky
    Pam­pers Coupons

  6. sally

    Guess they cant rec­og­nize FREE PROMOTION of the CNE.
    Bah throw em in the trash like giant tiger.

  7. tattoodprincess

    I cant believe they would do that. That is just rude and plainly not good PR on their end. I have never been to the CNE before, but if this is how they oper­ate their busi­ness, I’m glad. You would think they would be more wor­ried about pre­vent­ing the shoot­ings and stab­bings that hap­pen EVERY YEAR at The Ex, than remov­ing a logo from a blog. It’s not like you’re pre­tend­ing to be some­one from The Ex, try­ing to sell tick­ets under false pre­tenses, they had no need to write to you and ask for the removal of their logo. If any­thing, you were giv­ing them FREE pub­lic­ity! They act all high and mighty, but they’re no bet­ter than a trav­el­ling car­ni­val with ex cons man­ning the rides. BOOO TO THE EX!!!!

  13. Buy Tickets

    Did you design the site on your own or is this a free tem­plate? Either way, it looks great. Cheers.

  18. Emile Barasch

    I am want­ing to deter­mine if den­tal insur­ance for me is really worth the cost. Well, it’s not sim­i­lar to med­ical insur­ance, where you may have a major injury or ill­ness, and have to go to the hos­pi­tal for a long period of time. What’s the worst thing, from a finan­cial stand­point, that can hap­pen to your teeth? And what­ever that is, I’m sure your den­tal insur­ance is set up to not pay for it.

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