Posts Tagged “stupid”
Skype Customer Support is Pissing me Off
by Jamison "JAK" Kissh on January 30, 2009
If you have a Skype subscription you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about, for the rest of you I’ll try to be explicit as possible.
When you sign up for a Skype Out subscritpion which is unlimited calling out to landline and cell phones in the United States and I think Canada you get a $30 discount on a Skype In or online number. When you navigate to the page you are presented with two options, one year for $30 or 3 months for like $8. So that you don’t think I’m crazy I’ve included a screenshot below of what I was shown on the account page.
Seeing this I thought “great I’ll get one” when I got to the page to buy one it said that it was $30 so I thought I’d be getting it for free. I went ahead and ordered it and to my surprise was billed $30 on my paypal account. Turns out that the $30 price included the discount, its normally $60?!
Ok fine I made a mistake now that I want to try and rectify this, after receiving one successful email from billing@skype.com I have waited nearly three days for a response and haven’t gotten one thing back again. I’m not sure where to go now, maybe dispute the charge with Paypal until I get a response from Skype to attempt to rectify the situation. Of course these guys don’t have a phone number (or skype name) to contact them at either so I’m at the mercy of their (and my) email systems. Anyone have some suggestions for what to do?
EDIT: My issues have been resolved, they ended up refunding my full $30.00
Something I Would Do
by Jamison "JAK" Kissh on January 14, 2009
Rant of the Week: Poor Filters
by Jamison "JAK" Kissh on January 7, 2009
Alright well our school uses an active filter which blocks very poorly and randomly blocks sites. An example of this is below:
As you can see they block http://apple.com for pornograpy? Also they do not block http://www.apple.com which doesn’t quite make sense to me. The filter also sporatically filters Youtube, Digg, and Flickr.
Hosting on Windows Sucks
by Jamison "JAK" Kissh on December 2, 2008
Well I was at work today attempting to upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 beta 3 without the nice automatic upgrade and I ended up failing to get it to work because well frankly, Windows hosting sucks. I finally got it to work after a while though, it took some playing around with some Plesk, IIS, AND Windows Explorer. I’ve got to say that hosting Wordpress on an Apache platform is a much easier since all it takes is setting the permissions to 777 for the necessary folders. I really hate windows hosting, not only is it slow it’s tough to launch anything.
Rant of the Week: Facebook Status
by Jamison "JAK" Kissh on November 24, 2008
Well I’m sure everyone that uses Facebook knows what I’m talking about when I yell about the status updates, in case you don’t it’s a short little blurb to let people know what you’re doing or what’s on your mind. Example below:
Now for a few examples of terrible updates:
As you can probably tell I blurred out the names to protect the “innocent.” Now the first one I don’t quite even get to tell you tell you the truth but it could have been preceded with “[name] is thinking…”. The second is nicely put and props to her. The third could have been phrases something like “[name] is wondering…”
As you can see it doesn’t take a whole lot of thought, either people are just flat out lazy or just flat out stupid. Here’s a quick snapshot of my status updates page. Some people were smart enough to figure out how to write in third person. The others… well use your imagination as to what I’d say.
