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Word has it they bought Joe a little nicer of a camping chair than the cheapest one from walmart
This thread, among others, since crunchbits sent that discontinued email, makes me understand why it was sent and the way they worded it even more. I can only imagine the support tickets as well.
Why? Because the yolo attitude of some people comes back to bite them or because everything somehow has to be some kind of silly circlejerk where everyone just high fives each other?
I'm a little sad that i had to disagree with @default. I don't like doing that but beyond this i don't see what would be the problem. I think i've been quite measured and the whole thing might very well serve as a (quite harmless) lesson that being cheap won't magically turn problems into non-problems no matter how much slack people cut you.
Positivity is as much of a nice and wholesome thing as a measurable amount of LET users is unreasonable donkeys that should fucking do some research instead of grabbing everything with a low price tag but once being positive becomes some kind of mandatory ritual it's just very, very unhealthy.
It's got a cup holder and everything!
Just took a look, and it seems Visa RDR triggered and our system refunded all the transactions and closed the account.
idk, it just came as is
There's a difference between being upset and throwing a tantrum, and there's a difference between expressing concerns and making threats. Idk, I just feel like there's a lot of tantrums and threats in this thread and not much productive actually going on. Anyone who bothered to do the slightest bit of research before taking part in the sale would have known to expect some delays... were they longer this time than previously? Sure. Certainly not going to pretend dartnode hasn't had their issues here, the sale was a bit of a mess, the timelines all got screwed, the queues were kinda a joke... but at the end of the day people still picked up servers at pretty damn good prices, and as far as I can see keoir and crew have been trying to make things right for folks who are upset.
I can't speak to the whole ip abuse/spoofing/port 25/whatever deal, I haven't run into any of it. I just feel like lately as a whole nobody around here wants to own their part of the decisions that end poorly for them. I've made plenty of purchases over the years on LET on impulse without doing my research, and sometimes it bites me... but I guess I'm just the type to usually go "well, that sucks" and move on. I don't really feel like throwing a tantrum on the forum or threatening to chase a provider around all their threads telling them how awful I think they are really accomplishes anything.
Yeah, there's a lot of tantrums and i couldn't give less of a shit about those but there also a good amount of incompetence and some kind of if-you-complain-you-are-a-mjj-and-obviously-a-horrible-person-and-also-100%-wrong mantra, which seemingly gets applied pretty indiscriminately.
And again i wouldn't have given two single shits if it hadn't been for the dumbass replies the guy has gotten. There's a difference between being slow and (i'll be nice and not assume intent) ignorant. If you don't address people's problems don't tell them you're addressing their problems. Ignore this simple rule and there's a chance you'll piss people off (chances of doing so increase monumentally if the person in question already isn't very happy to begin with). It's quite easy.
It's like when your on the phone with some zero-fucks-given support drone trying to explain your problem and they just give you some canned pseudo friendly nonsense that doesn't match what you were saying. If you have an actual problem that's pretty frustrating. Same applies when you know something but the other side tells you the opposite and acts like they are being nice about it. After a couple repetitions there will be anger involved.
I'm not even going into the pros and cons surrounding selling something you regularly can't provide within reasonable expectations. There's people waiting on ticket replies for like a week now and if they do as much as suggest that Dartnode should answer tickets they get shot down by some nothing-matters-since-it's-cheap fanboy. Not sure how i feel about that but i guess you have to pick your battles and i'm actually trying pretty hard to not piss on the parade...
Is it too soon to say....
Epic clusterfuck?