<div dir="auto"><div>Sorry, I may be missing something here, but I can't immediately see what's wrong with charging a fee to use the JD Power name for advertising purposes after you've won an award as long as that doesn't affect the actual judging. <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- <br>Barbara Krasnoff<br><a href="mailto:bkrasnoff@gmail.com">bkrasnoff@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.brooklynwriter.com">http://www.brooklynwriter.com</a><br><br>Author of "The History of Soul 2065."<br><br>    </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 6:22 PM Gabe Goldberg via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Today's D and a friend's response:<br>
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<a href="https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-12-27" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-12-27</a><br>
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<a href="https://m.sfgate.com/business/article/J-D-Power-cozy-with-winners-2620609.php" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://m.sfgate.com/business/article/J-D-Power-cozy-with-winners-2620609.php</a><br>
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"The companies evaluated by J.D. Power in fact pay the firm to use its <br>
name in their ads, and a hefty amount of cash is said to be changing hands."<br>
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On 12/26/2019 12:30 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote:<br>
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> I'm shocked ... just shocked ... by this implication.<br>
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Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc.       <a href="mailto:gabe@gabegold.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gabe@gabegold.com</a><br>
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