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More idiots and scammers like this can be found on the OFFICE THIEVES HALL OF SHAME.
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December 12th, 2008 at 12:14 am
ha ha. anyone who uses the name aware bear is lame anyway. just like anything else on the internet. if ou lie you get caught eventually because someone will take notice. and his photoshops are not very good anyway. another noob bites the dust.
December 14th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I enjoyed reading about how Aware Bear is using deliberate spam articles to try and hide the results of their incredible mistakes. Not only will those spam articles contribute higher rankings to all OTHER pages using the same words but will ensure stronger rankings for sites that have gained their rank by absolute organic and semantic relation to the words. I almost feel sorry for them if it wasn’t so sad but also funny all at the same time.
PS. They must not have a lot of other things to do. Maybe it will keep them from spending too much time on conducting Photoshop rape jobs on pictures that don’t belong to them.
December 15th, 2008 at 7:42 am
I was at the MCC job fair where they were had those fliers that are mentioned and it had one of those pictures that was ripped and edited to make the company look good. Those prints were horrible, by the way. Cheap printing for sure. The impression I got is that AwareBear is not a professional outfit.
Other companies that were present included Home Depot, Mariott Hotels, Best Buy, FedEx and many others so AwareBear also looked completely out of place. When I asked a few questions they couldn’t give me a straight answer and when I spoke about IT and technical things it felt like I was talking to someone who tried very hard to talk along but at the same time you could see that it was more about being clueless than understanding what I was talking about.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
OMG! Their website has a section where they offer business web design. Have you seen their site? How is that going to inspire confidence? Ever! If you can’t even get your own presentation to look at least decent and functional how the hell are you going to offer that crap to customers? Amateurs? That is TOO KIND for that level of garbage.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:01 am
I think you know the brochure did go to print, correct? I know because I was given one by a friends of the guys who own AwareBear. I still have it here at my desl.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Oh crapper …
That name makes me ashamed of being PT !!!!
Drive a forklift up his rear window please and teach him no swin with cement shoes !!!
God damn, why on earth did he had to be at least partially Portuguese !!!!
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Going to stick my head on the sand now and pretend I didn’t read this blatant disregard to my homeland !!!
May 2nd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Hi everyone. Rochester native here to let you all know that I recently had a semi-personal experience with Awarebear, and they’re just as bad as everyone says. I already made sure to post a terrible review on their Yahoo! Local page, but who knows if that will make any difference.
My friend had her computer worked on by this company. Normally I would be glad to do the work for her but I was out of town at the time. I found out when she later started having problems updating Windows that they had reinstalled the OS on her computer and used the WPAKill hack to bypass the need for a CD-Key. Why would a company do this when she already has a legitimate Windows CD-Key sticker on the desktop? Not only are they using illegal copies of Windows but I presume they must be stealing these good CD-Keys and using them for their own systems.
On top of that, attempts to contact their office and some light research left me with a few other interesting tidbits of information.
1) They seem to have only a few employees, and the technician my friend had was (I believe) the owner Andre Alves. From what she tells me, he seemed to know his stuff technically (this coming from a woman that doesn’t know much herself, though) but he didn’t seem very trustworthy. She let him do the reinstall anyways because she needed it done quickly.
2) The person who takes their calls is a sleezebag. He doesn’t know anything about computers but he knows a lot about bullshit. I found it very funny that their website has a picture of some employees from a call center (that they probably stole as well) but when you call it’s always the same scuzzy guy answering.
3) You simply cannot get a hold of the owner neither by asking for him by name or by title. Asking for a manager will get you one of their few employees probably faking a job as manager. They like to use the word “transfer” (as in “let me transfer you to XXXX”) when they obviously are just giving the phone to someone nearby. Another example of their attempt to put on an act.
4) The address they have listed in the Rochester Yellow Pages is FAKE! How can they think they can get away with this? The address listed is actually that of a large sports complex. Turns out their real office is actually residential zoned, it’s in someone’s (probably the owner’s) house.
I found this website after I discovered the problem with her “new” Windows installation so I thought it best that I post here since I don’t see any activity on the comments section since February. Just letting everyone know these guys are still in business and still scamming Rochester’s citizens.
I’m going to do my best to make sure as many people know about their crap as possible.
August 16th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Amusingly, Aware Bear has claimed their Google Places listing and reported their name as “HP Computer Repair and Service Rochester NY”, rather than the actual business name. Now not only are they in the business of copyright infringement, they apparently have decided to try their hand at Trademark violation too! They don’t appear in a search of HP’s authorized service providers database. Check it out at:
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=191957590087199798&cd=1&ei=LJxpTL_nJpyszASy19ibAw&dtab=0&sll=43.090861,-77.515288&sspn=0.003107,0.006968&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=43.092416,-77.518775&spn=0,0&t=h&z=18&iwloc=lyrftr:h,191957590087199798,43.090845,-77.515835
Looks like yet another attempt to manufacture credibility where there is none. I love to see small, local businesses succeed – especially in the crowded and competitive IT sector – but when companies do these kinds of dishonest things, they lose my support.