hi guys,

weird long-shot question!

Anyone studied/works in marketing and knows of the whole DS-max controversy?! Likewise the Cobra group (the uk arm of DSmax). Whilst over here in Oz my girlfriend is working for Cobra - but there are certain things about it that have worried me, and subsiquently I had a look on the net and was a bit shocked at the controversy surrounding these direct marketing companies. Thus I'm a little worried. She's working as an "independent contractor", standing in malls getting people to sign up to donate monthly payments to HRI (heart research institute).

here's some random links:

an entire msn group dedicated to slating DS-max!!!

http://groups.msn.com/DSMAXTheAftermath/links.msnw

one particularly interesting site outlining EXACTLY what she does/has to put up with as part of the job. check out 2-5 on that list, its like a fookin cult!

http://wolfram.org/scam/ds_max/index.html

UK newspaper article on cobra:

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_...name_page.html

Duno what im asking really, just if anyone knows of bad experiences, potential pitt falls associated with this kind of work etc.......??