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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

#11

Yeah, it looks the same with little tweaks. My question is did those magazines feature flymaids as they are stating? EDIT: The site looks the same and that is a clear fraud hence my question.

According to the article, no.

That's a bit brazen to make those claims on the site. They can get into trouble for that and also ruin their own reputation. So I am thinking the site is a little joke? When you click on help and go to FAQs, it labels questions as "HOT".

I think it is a joke.

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

#12
Oh that's not shady at all. Assuming all this is legal (I doubt it, but hypothetically) how is this a good marketing tactic? Having all this info already stored comes off as way more creepy than convenient as evidenced by the author of the article. And yeah, I can't see this being legal in a thousand years.

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

#13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to the article, no.

That's a bit brazen to make those claims on the site. They can get into trouble for that and also ruin their own reputation. So I am thinking the site is a little joke? When you click on help and go to FAQs, it labels questions as "HOT". I think it is a joke.

Did you notice they literally copied their competitors site?

Testimonials are the least of their worries.

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

#14
Their robots.txt [1] prevented archive.org's Wayback machine from crawling their Privacy Policy at https://www.homejoy.com/privacy

I would have assumed that I'd be notified if sensitive information on Homejoy was sold to a third-party or "partner", but I should have probably read their privacy policy more closely when the shutdown notice came out.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20151023153644/https://homejoy.c...

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to the article, no.

That's a bit brazen to make those claims on the site. They can get into trouble for that and also ruin their own reputation. So I am thinking the site is a little joke? When you click on help and go to FAQs, it labels questions as "HOT". I think it is a joke.

They didn't claim they were featured. They simply displayed the logos. Lots of affiliate marketing sites do the same thing.

I'm not defending the practice of course.

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

#16
This site appears to be hosted on Heroku according to the DNS information.

    www.flymaids.com.	3600	IN	CNAME	cleanerconnect.herokuapp.com.
    cleanerconnect.herokuapp.com. 300 IN	CNAME	us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com.
    us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com. 60 IN	A	23.21.224.165
Would the author have a case for emailing Heroku's abuse address and asking them to look into it or would this fall outside their purview? My hypothesis is that they'd want to know if their services were being used in a fashion that was creepy (for lack of a better descriptor).

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a bit brazen to make those claims on the site. They can get into trouble for that and also ruin their own reputation. So I am thinking the site is a little joke? When you click on help and go to FAQs, it labels questions as "HOT". I think it is a joke.

Did you notice they literally copied their competitors site? Testimonials are the least of their worries.

Yeah, I did. This is not good.

Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

#20

Looking like they sold their customer data over to fly maids or whoever was behind them. Surprised they were able to actually transfer the CC info. When I was at a company that was selling off assets, the most we could do was give them customer email addresses. I have serious doubts about the legality of this.

That's what I thought too!
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