By the way Chris, it is likely this story of 1 click = 1 € billed to the debit of the company that advertises? (see blue in the text).
Tintin, Google and Baumaux advertisements
What was not the amazement of some of our friends or adherents when they realized in January that the petition of Kokopelli (signed besides by hundreds of thousands of French) was framed on its reception site (that of our friends from Univers-Nature) by huge advertising placards from the company Graines Baumaux, the same company that dragged us before the courts, which demanded 50 euros for unfair competition, which required the cessation of 000% of the activities of the Kokopelli Association and which succeeded in making us condemn before the Nancy Court to 80 euros in penalties.
Our friends at Univers-Nature, who have also managed our website for 6 years, thought they could deal with Baumaux ads on Google by blocking the appearance of the url of this company, which then put a second one online.
We have since investigated the web and we have noticed that indeed very many websites and blogs, which communicated on Kokopelli's struggles against the seed mafia, saw their page surrounded by Baumaux advertisements when these sites and blogs accepted Google ads.
The reasons for this massive assault on internet advertising from Baumaux are simple:
- from a strategic point of view, the brand image of Baumaux suffered greatly from its senseless attack on Kokopelli.
- from a technical point of view, Baumaux had to pay dearly at Google for the terms "organic seeds" and "organic seeds" to be positioned very well on web pages, if not very often in first place! (We hope he didn't buy Kokopelli's name: it's a very common practice on the web to buy the names of those we want to harm).
The result is spectacular: all the sites and blogs that accept Google ads and that echo Kokopelli's struggle "attract" Baumaux pubs in the form of large green placards (green like ecology, of course! !): Many Internet users are quite baffled.
What to do? It is not within the prerogatives of the Kokopelli Association to launch a generalized boycott against Baumaux, as has been suggested to us many times.
Informed Internet users, on the other hand, informed us that they were not offended by this aggressive commercial strategy: on the contrary, they clicked on the ad, and rather twice or three times than one, and they left the page well of the Baumaux site open in its entirety.
Cost of the operation: 1 euro billed to the debit of said company.
50 clicks = 000 euros! It is expensive organic and what organic!
Organic seeds at Baumaux are a reflection of the "protection of biodiversity" at GNIS: many beautiful words. Organic seeds represent a tiny percentage of the Baumaux catalog, which means moreover that all the rest of the seeds marketed by this company are produced with the most toxic of agricultural practices because seed agriculture uses all the more powder of perlin pinpin that the seeds are not eaten! In addition, these few "organic seeds" are very often only F1 hybrids which contribute as much to the erosion of genetic resources.
And at what price! How can Baumaux have the presumptuousness to blame the Kokopelli Association for "enrichment" when we analyze the prices charged for its "organic seeds":
- the F1 hybrid tomato "Aspion" at 4 euros 50 for 10 seeds.
- the F1 hybrid tomato "Agro" at 4 euros 50 for 10 seeds.
- F1 hybrid tomato "Myriade" at 6 euros 50 for 10 seeds. This represents an increase of 650% over the prices charged for tomatoes by Kokopelli.
- "Tintin" lettuce at 4 euros 30 for 150 seeds. This represents an increase of 870% compared to the prices charged for lettuce by Kokopelli.
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Another big thank you to all our friends for the incredible support of the past few weeks: heart balm.
Dominique guillet
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