Does Platinum Bucks Shave?

Hooper · 12-17-2002

Well i happen to really like dave and albert.. that guy dan is another story, he seems like kind of a prick in my opinion.

But the story is pretty simple really. We sent a tiny tiny bit of traffic (mind you that it usually generates about 100 joins but with platinum it only made 11 joins)... Que Ce'ra Ce'ra...

So they tell me their going to send their optin mailer to me to make up for the shitty conversions and to show how sorry they are. So they start sending away and suprise suprise that it was about as dirty an email list as it gets. 40 spam cop complaints an hour is about what we were getting. So i told them i couldnt accept the traffic anymore cause verio got mad and redirected it to a completely blank 404 page that just said "account terminated".. sure i coulda kept getting the traffic some how, but it woulda been bad imho.

So then dave gets all mad at me, threats etc..etc.. i tell him i'm sorry but i cant help you right now because i'll get shut down.

Soooo... on the 16th my invoicing guy takes this screenshot of the stats cause thats what we do:
http://personal.clickfeel.com/kris/platinum2.jpg

Today my invoicing guy is comparing checks to screenshots and notices a discrepancy... 100 bucks was the check and 485 was the invoice. So he contacts platinum bucks and the talk to their "programmer" who makes the 11 signups disappear and accordingly *corrects* the problem.
http://personal.clickfeel.com/kris/platinum_after.jpg

So after a few hours (god this is a lot of work for a few bucks eh?) they finally decide to tell us some b.s. about how they were moving stats from one account to another and it *inadvertently* ended up in our account and that it was a mistake and they wont be paying us.

Its' not actually a very well thought out shave imho... probably more of an emotional knee jerk reaction to being shut down.

Thats my story and i'm stickin to it.

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12-17-2002	#1
Hooper Members Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,156	Well i happen to really like dave and albert.. that guy dan is another story, he seems like kind of a prick in my opinion. But the story is pretty simple really. We sent a tiny tiny bit of traffic (mind you that it usually generates about 100 joins but with platinum it only made 11 joins)... Que Ce'ra Ce'ra... So they tell me their going to send their optin mailer to me to make up for the shitty conversions and to show how sorry they are. So they start sending away and suprise suprise that it was about as dirty an email list as it gets. 40 spam cop complaints an hour is about what we were getting. So i told them i couldnt accept the traffic anymore cause verio got mad and redirected it to a completely blank 404 page that just said "account terminated".. sure i coulda kept getting the traffic some how, but it woulda been bad imho. So then dave gets all mad at me, threats etc..etc.. i tell him i'm sorry but i cant help you right now because i'll get shut down. Soooo... on the 16th my invoicing guy takes this screenshot of the stats cause thats what we do: http://personal.clickfeel.com/kris/platinum2.jpg Today my invoicing guy is comparing checks to screenshots and notices a discrepancy... 100 bucks was the check and 485 was the invoice. So he contacts platinum bucks and the talk to their "programmer" who makes the 11 signups disappear and accordingly corrects the problem. http://personal.clickfeel.com/kris/platinum_after.jpg So after a few hours (god this is a lot of work for a few bucks eh?) they finally decide to tell us some b.s. about how they were moving stats from one account to another and it inadvertently ended up in our account and that it was a mistake and they wont be paying us. Its' not actually a very well thought out shave imho... probably more of an emotional knee jerk reaction to being shut down. Thats my story and i'm stickin to it.