Comments on: A Note to “Bob” at “Bob.com”

By: Jon the Real Estate Guy

Jon the Real Estate Guy — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:38:16 +0000

That is pretty funny, although a bit scary. It probably stinks having people like ‘bob’ contact you, and I’m sure you don’t like dealing with name similarities.

By: John Wake

John Wake — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:28:00 +0000

Factoid Alert!

Thompson was the 22nd most common name among home buyers in Maricopa County in 2007. 155 homes were bought by people with the surname Thompson.

By: northern indiana real estate

northern indiana real estate — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:24:01 +0000

What exactly was Bob’s point? Was he trying to sell a service of some kind? That is just too bizarre to be sending an email to someone with such a generic name that they are on a sex offender list.

By: online estate agents

online estate agents — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:47:55 +0000

very interesting thanks

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:33:06 +0000

Bob needs a job.

By: TheRECoach

TheRECoach — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:16:20 +0000

Too fricken funny Jay! I have to side on the “I’m a little afraid” when this “BOB” took sooo much time to do this, but I appreciate your humorous spin on a serious situation. Your reputation is impeccable sir, your Avatar on the other hand…..eh!

Be Good

The Coach

By: Francy

Francy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:36:27 +0000

The cool thing is that this post already comes up #3 for the search term James Graham Thompson Jr!

By: Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:16:37 +0000

Beats me Nick. The post he was referring to was just a sort of silly/fun search terms post. Hard to see in there what could be offensive.

But you never know what might offend someone. I certainly didn’t intend to offend anyone.

It’s bothersome to think that someone out there might associate my name with a criminal, but it comes with having a common name, been dealing with it all my life.

And yes, I have several things in place to “watch” what people say on-line about “Jay Thompson”. But it’s difficult due to the shear volume of people having that name.

There’s a professional surfer in Australia named Jay Thompson. We exchanged emails once. He wasn’t interested in exchanging jobs.

By: Nick Bostic

Nick Bostic — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:59:30 +0000

Do you think maybe “Bob” took a personal offense to your article? I’m assuming you track your name anyway, so you probably knew all of this before even writing your article. Some people have too much free time.