Comments on: PR Pitch Review: Advanta’s Ideablob.com

By: larn919

larn919 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:57:05 +0000

The Ideablob may be good for people trying for the award money, but it’s one of the reasons this company is dangerous to work with. NEVER get a card through them. They get you to sign up for their cards with a low “non-introductory” rate, but in very small print deep in its disclosures, they state they can raise your rates without notice. AND THEY DO!! A year after getting them, they increased my rate from 7.99 to 21.99 in one month! When I contacted them, the agent gave me the routine about credit and usage review, but did not know anything else about the decision or the rate determination. This company practice is worse than the sub-prime lenders. At least, the title company has to inform you of what’s going to happen. This company baits and hooks you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:50:13 +0000

The concept behind Ideablob is great but the execution has been a failure. It’s pitched as a place to showcase NEW ideas so entrepreneurs can win $10K to start or fule the startup of a NEW business. And yet, it seems that it’s really just a popularity contest and that boring ideas like “Expand my global tech company” use relationships to reach the top of the list. There are a lot of really new and interesting ideas but they lose all their viability because a former Belmont winner (another existing company) won and now every former Belmont grad and his brother is pushing yet another existing business to the top. Advanta needs to put some checks and balances in place to ensure innovative NEW ideas are what’s being voted on.

By: Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:13:01 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce