I was contacted by a local company some time last month. They were asking me about whether I could do up some articles for them to promote an event they were running last month. I’ve waiting till now to write because I didn’t want to be accused of anything then 
So, here goes my rant!
Ok, so anyway, I wrote back to them and said thank you kindly for your interest and here are my advertising rates. I mean, here I was paying for my own bandwidth, generating income for you, the very least you could do was to pay me for my efforts and trouble!
But no, they came back to me and said, sorry, we aren’t looking for paid advertising.
I mean WTF?! Even if you were to have an article in the newspapers, you’d have to pay for it! What’s so hard about paying me a fraction of what you’d pay the newspapers for an ad?
So, I wrote back and said, ok, I’ll do you the article, send me your info and can I request an invite to your event. The answer? Our event is only for XXX people, are you in this line of work?
WTF?!
Evidently they’d never heard of the power of blogging. The Malaysian Government was changed overnight due to the power of blogs and these clueless advertisers are still scorning us bloggers.
WTF! I mean seriously. WTF?!