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Re: BrickJournal.com is online!
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Aug 2007 02:48:12 GMT
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In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Joe Meno wrote:
In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:

Although I’d like to sign up and I did attempt too. I am going to wait until
Brickjournal has it's own site. Initially when I signed up I was of the
understanding that I was signing up for Brickjournal and Brickjournal only. This
unfortunately however was not the case.

In addition to Brickjournal I was also signed up for near-time.net, which
is a web site building /hosting service similar to Myspace only with a first
month free then you pay attitude.  To top this off when I finally realized
the wackiness of the supposed Brickworld web site and tried to delete my
account I could not find anywhere to do so. I must have searched the site
for an hour.

'supposed Brickworld site?' I'm not Brickworld.

It was a typo sorry.


Also, it's not a supposed site. I suppose if I publish a magazine with a
publisher as opposed to by myself, it's a supposed magazine. And all the AFOL
sites that are hosted by Northstar are 'supposed websites.'

Although this doesn't sound like the Joe meno I know I’ll bite.

The thing is, I signed up for Brickjournal thinking it was Brickjournal and I
got something completely different. hence the supposed site comment. Then when I
tried to correct the problem I had to fight to get myself deleted when it should
have been an easy task.


Finally after giving up I decided to email info@near-time.net and got a reply that basically said request denied. I replied with a more sternly worded DELETE ME! And about 15mins later I got a phone call.  Yep I said a phone call. One of the near time head honchos called me to persuade me to keep my account insisting that I only signed up for Brickjournal even though I was directed to the near-time web site time and time again which kept asking for money “$70+ a month I might add.”   I was also told that in about 30days I would be receiving emails to upgrade my account, something of which I don't want either. “I get enough spam as is.” I reiterated my desire to be deleted no less than 15 times over the phone and he just didn't get it.

As mentioned in another note, this has been resolved. There was definitely a bug
in the system.


This is fine these things happen from time to time. I just don't handle bugs
well I guess.  My apologies for making this issue public but it needed to be
resolved. After all someone called me on a phone number no one but Joe
meno/brickjournal should have known as that's whom I thought I was giving it to.

Please know that the only reason I posted this to lugnet is because in my
personal opinion it was something that others needed to know. My intentions were
not / are not meant to hurt your bottom line.
Ondrew

P.s. This will be my last Lugnet posting on this. If future replies are required
I will do so privately.



Joe




   In short, JOE, talk to your site provider and make sure I’m deleted from his
site in its entirety. I want no part of a site that doesn't tell you what it's
signing you up for and requests money for services I did not signup for or
request.



Ondrew

p.s. any one else have issues like this? it didn't seem like i was the only one
by the sound of the voice over the phone.



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  Re: BrickJournal.com is online!
 
(...) 'supposed Brickworld site?' I'm not Brickworld. Also, it's not a supposed site. I suppose if I publish a magazine with a publisher as opposed to by myself, it's a supposed magazine. And all the AFOL sites that are hosted by Northstar are (...) (17 years ago, 2-Aug-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)

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