Rod Baker Royally Screws ShareAdSpace Members
The drama associated with the sudden demise of ShareAdSpace continues to grow. First he made his initial announcement that the database was gone, all member info was lost, that he was really sorry but there was nothing he could do about it, but he was prepared to 'take his lumps' in the forums. Then it seems by 'taking his lumps' he really meant getting lots of warm fuzzies from everybody saying how it was all going to be OK. The minute people started criticizing him in any way, he started all his usual foot-stomping, everybody's-out-to-get-me, delete-me-from-the-forum, tantrum-type behaviours. I'm sure anybody with kids over the age of two knows what I'm talking about.
So after it was clear that a lot of folks were pretty pissed off about him not paying them because he didn't handle the backups properly, he miraculously discovered a partial backup from a nearly a month ago. So he couldn't pay people all the money they'd earned, but at least he could pay them some. At this point, I think everybody was supposed to bow before him and praise his generosity and thank him for any pittance he might be gracious enough to throw at them. Of course, quite a few did, and those who didn't are copping a world of hurt if they aren't smart enough to keep quiet about it.
Time for a disclaimer here. I am one of the members who's getting royally screwed. I had $20 in earnings in the SAS 'bank.' That data wasn't in the partial backup he's using, so instead of getting my $20, he's offering me the 5 cents I had in my regular SAS account. Yes, that's right. Rod 'My Word is My Bond' Baker is offering to pay me 1/4 cent on the dollar. Fuck. That.
And here's the kicker. Members who do want their payments, even if it's only 5 cents or whatever, have to go to the new ShareAdSpace site, login and request payment. Sure, you might think he could just send them the money, but no, he's going to make them request it. And in order to do that, they've got to survive the Attack of the Killer Pop-Up Ads From HELL! Yep, go check it out at http://www.shareadspace.com -- he's got a couple ads on each page, Firefox tells me its blocking a couple of popups, and there are a couple more that are getting through both my popup blockers, and are working their asses off trying to crash my browser and possibly my computer as well.
Apart from the hassles it causes for members (but good for Rod if he can use his ads to crash their browsers so that they can't request payment) you've really got to wonder what the purpose of those ads are. Does he think members who visit his site to request the money he owes them are really interested in buying a Dell or joining a dating site? Is he hoping that instead of requesting payment, they'll suddenly click on an ad and forget all about their money? Does he really think he's legitimately earning the money Dell, HP and all the other companies are paying to have their ads displayed all over the net? Or is he just being a greedy bastard?
I'll be posting more about what I think about Rod and ShareAdSpace later, but I think I'd better stop for now.
So after it was clear that a lot of folks were pretty pissed off about him not paying them because he didn't handle the backups properly, he miraculously discovered a partial backup from a nearly a month ago. So he couldn't pay people all the money they'd earned, but at least he could pay them some. At this point, I think everybody was supposed to bow before him and praise his generosity and thank him for any pittance he might be gracious enough to throw at them. Of course, quite a few did, and those who didn't are copping a world of hurt if they aren't smart enough to keep quiet about it.
Time for a disclaimer here. I am one of the members who's getting royally screwed. I had $20 in earnings in the SAS 'bank.' That data wasn't in the partial backup he's using, so instead of getting my $20, he's offering me the 5 cents I had in my regular SAS account. Yes, that's right. Rod 'My Word is My Bond' Baker is offering to pay me 1/4 cent on the dollar. Fuck. That.
And here's the kicker. Members who do want their payments, even if it's only 5 cents or whatever, have to go to the new ShareAdSpace site, login and request payment. Sure, you might think he could just send them the money, but no, he's going to make them request it. And in order to do that, they've got to survive the Attack of the Killer Pop-Up Ads From HELL! Yep, go check it out at http://www.shareadspace.com -- he's got a couple ads on each page, Firefox tells me its blocking a couple of popups, and there are a couple more that are getting through both my popup blockers, and are working their asses off trying to crash my browser and possibly my computer as well.
Apart from the hassles it causes for members (but good for Rod if he can use his ads to crash their browsers so that they can't request payment) you've really got to wonder what the purpose of those ads are. Does he think members who visit his site to request the money he owes them are really interested in buying a Dell or joining a dating site? Is he hoping that instead of requesting payment, they'll suddenly click on an ad and forget all about their money? Does he really think he's legitimately earning the money Dell, HP and all the other companies are paying to have their ads displayed all over the net? Or is he just being a greedy bastard?
I'll be posting more about what I think about Rod and ShareAdSpace later, but I think I'd better stop for now.
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