A Tour Of A “Pay to Download Firefox” Site
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#2Ever wonder how to put yourself closer to the front of the line to hell? This is a good article to read if you're interested.
I'm all for capitalism and making money, but this is just wrong. Sure you can say, well people are dumb enough! Yeah, most people are dumb, but that doesn't mean you go ripping them off.
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#3"Once you submit your order for Membership, it is nonrefundable. Only in cases of fraud will the payment be refunded. This policy is in place due to an abuse of credit card chargebacks and theft of information. All requests for refunds due to fraud MUST be made in writing and physically mailed to freedownloadzone."
What they are doing at freedownloadzone is exactly that "theft of information and abuse of credit cards".
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#4Can't Firefox block the referrer? This seems to be up there with scamming senior citizens.
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#5"New computer users should find our services valuable, and a time saver.
If you are an advanced computer user, you probably don't need our services. "
I think they missed making that more clear, suggested rewrite:
"Clueless newbies we like to rip off, everybody else is a waste of our bandwidth, so go away"
Euclidinvestments/Cardtransaction.com, the company behind all this is based in the UK:
Saphie Number One Limited (Reg 91918)
26 York Street
London, W1U 6PZ
United Kingdom
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#6I wish that firefox would start charging. Something like a $100 for a 1000 seat license or something similar.
Why?
Because when I go to one of my bosses and say "I think we try and transition away from IE. Here, this is Firefox, it is free and it is wonderful", their reaction is "Free?!" and visions of shitty freeware from the 90s fill their heads.
In order to keep us geeks happy, they could offer a source distribution that needs to be compiled or has some trivial dependency that needs to be installed.
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#7"New computer users should find our services valuable, and a time saver. If you are an advanced computer user, you probably don't need our services. " I think they missed making that more clear, suggested rewrite: "Clueless newbies we like to rip off, everybody else is a waste of our bandwidth, so go away" Euclidinvestments/Cardtransaction.com, the company behind all this is based in the UK: Saphie Number One Limited…
Just drop that info along with the url into 4chan. I have a feeling this problem will work itself right on out...
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#8Can't Firefox block the referrer? This seems to be up there with scamming senior citizens.
You get an escalating war that way with out actually fixing the problem. They're better off warning users on download.
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#9I wish that firefox would start charging. Something like a $100 for a 1000 seat license or something similar. Why? Because when I go to one of my bosses and say "I think we try and transition away from IE. Here, this is Firefox, it is free and it is wonderful", their reaction is "Free?!" and visions of shitty freeware from the 90s fill their heads. In order to keep us geeks happy, they could offer a source distributi…
The problem is that, as soon as they start charging, they open themselves up to liability. That's actually exactly what your bosses want: someone to take the liability.
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#10"New computer users should find our services valuable, and a time saver. If you are an advanced computer user, you probably don't need our services. " I think they missed making that more clear, suggested rewrite: "Clueless newbies we like to rip off, everybody else is a waste of our bandwidth, so go away" Euclidinvestments/Cardtransaction.com, the company behind all this is based in the UK: Saphie Number One Limited…
Actually, it's not that hard to get a merchant account considering their site is very straight forward. They list their address, the site has a secure cert and numbers to the tech support. It's all the things that companies like Auth.net ask for.
That being said, my computer raises all sorts of red-flags when I go to the site.
Now, I just wonder how good their customer service is, 'cause if clueless newbies fall for the trap, the least they could do is to support them as they figure out how to turn their computers on, explain what a browser is and what they should click to access the internet...
They do claim to answer every call in 90 seconds (800 978 7657) and I was talking to someone within about 30 seconds.