Interesting how Bob and Ali write their comments every single day (even during the weekends) on IGG, count down 13-9-4 days, 24 hours. And then the once the campain is closed the IGG page turns silent for days. I would expect a happy update for a succesful IGG campaign, but ... nothing. Now that makes me feel uncomfortable, even though I didn't support the campaign. Makes me wonder if everybody left for holiday. I wonder what a $400k holiday would be like
Hopefully I'm wrong.
Interesting how Bob and Ali write their comments every single day (even during the weekends) on IGG, count down 13-9-4 days, 24 hours. And then the once the campain is closed the IGG page turns silent for days. I would expect a happy update for a succesful IGG campaign, but ... nothing. Now that makes me feel uncomfortable, even though I didn't support the campaign. Makes me wonder if everybody left for holiday. I wonder what a $400k holiday would be like
Hopefully I'm wrong.
$ curl -sv batteriser.com >/tmp/batt1.log
* Rebuilt URL to: batteriser.com/
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 198.1.123.166...
* Connected to batteriser.com (198.1.123.166) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: batteriser.com
> Accept: */*
>
* Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
* Closing connection 0
$ curl -sv batteriser.com >/tmp/batt2.txt
* Rebuilt URL to: batteriser.com/
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 198.1.123.166...
* Connected to batteriser.com (198.1.123.166) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: batteriser.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:18:14 GMT
* Server Apache is not blacklisted
< Server: Apache
< Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
< Cache-Control: max-age=3, must-revalidate
< WP-Super-Cache: Served supercache file from PHP
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
<
{ [data not shown]
* Connection #0 to host batteriser.com left intact
$ curl -sv [url=http://www.batteriser.com]www.batteriser.com[/url] >/tmp/batt3.txt
* Rebuilt URL to: [url=http://www.batteriser.com/]www.batteriser.com/[/url]
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 198.1.123.166...
* Connected to [url=http://www.batteriser.com]www.batteriser.com[/url] (198.1.123.166) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: [url=http://www.batteriser.com]www.batteriser.com[/url]
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:19:52 GMT
* Server Apache is not blacklisted
< Server: Apache
< Vary: Cookie,Accept-Encoding
< X-Pingback: http://batteriser.com/xmlrpc.php
< Location: http://batteriser.com/
< Content-Length: 0
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
<
* Connection #0 to host [url=http://www.batteriser.com]www.batteriser.com[/url] left intact
Interesting how Bob and Ali write their comments every single day (even during the weekends) on IGG, count down 13-9-4 days, 24 hours. And then the once the campain is closed the IGG page turns silent for days. I would expect a happy update for a succesful IGG campaign, but ... nothing. Now that makes me feel uncomfortable, even though I didn't support the campaign. Makes me wonder if everybody left for holiday. I wonder what a $400k holiday would be like
Hopefully I'm wrong.
They are likely going to have a big meeting with the VC's/board to see what they are going to do. They clearly cannot make money out of this campaign alone, and if they don't currently have a big order from retailer (as I'm sure they are lusting over. In fact it's stated goal of the Indiegogo campaign), they have to decide what to do next financially and production wise.
Hopefully, refunds or simply not charging the credit cards is an option that's on the table.
And back on topic: Will all the imbeciles who buy Batterisers be able to tell if they work or not?
Question: Why are they selling so many and where does all the positive feedback come from?
...Question: Why are they selling so many and where does all the positive feedback come from?
As for being past calibration... it's never an ideal situation, but as long as you're able to prove that it was working as specified, for example, within spec next calibration, they you can probably get away with it. Just far easier for everyone involved if everything is calibrated.
As for being past calibration... it's never an ideal situation, but as long as you're able to prove that it was working as specified, for example, within spec next calibration, they you can probably get away with it. Just far easier for everyone involved if everything is calibrated.
Exactly it is quite common practice if your test equipment is just out of calibration.
How do you buy feedback on eBay? You actually have to purchase the item in order to leave a feedback.
How do you buy feedback on eBay? You actually have to purchase the item in order to leave a feedback.I think you just answered your own question?
I think eBay would spot a load of purchases with no actual payments being made.
I think eBay would spot a load of purchases with no actual payments being made.Make the payments, then refund them a month later. Or just eat the payment fees as marketing budget, obviously both the sending and receiving accounts would belong to the same entity.
Hopefully, refunds or simply not charging the credit cards is an option that's on the table.
And I have to say that the assertions that they will simply take the money and run are totally unfounded and unfair at this point. There is absolutely no evidence that they would do that. And that's a stupid small amount of money anyway to even regard that as a possibility.
They break in communications is very likely due to the fact that they have some money, a huge level of commitments to meet, but not nearly enough money to meet all those commitments. For all the missteps, at this point, they do deserve a little time to process the situation and respond appropriately.
Now I tried it myself, using 'curl' instead of one of those newfangled web browsers,
and the first connection to their website gets indeed dropped. How rude!
Interesting that Batteriser website is simply made with Wordpress,
and as they didn't even disable the X-Pingback there is some hope that is even DDoS-sable
The feedback in this case is not bought or faked. You can see here:
...that the feedback comes from many different buyer with different sums of feedbacks. If many of them would come from the same account you would see both repeating first / last digits of the eBay name as well as identical feedback counter.
The feedback in this case is not bought or faked. You can see here that the feedback comes from many different buyer with different sums of feedbacks. If many of them would come from the same account you would see both repeating first / last digits of the eBay name as well as identical feedback counter.
you can allow bank transfer payments for that. No need to do the transfer, ebay is not in the loop.
They didn't fail. They "must" send a product. They asked for 30k and they got 400k. More that 800% .
Alexander.