Having spent months planning and producing our iPhone app, it is kind of hard not to take non-constructive negative reviews personally. I know it is stupid and unbecoming of me, but it’s hard. There have been a few two or three star reviews by people with constructive suggestions–I deeply appreciate that. (Although, admittedly, I prefer [...]
I just got an email sent through the comments section of our store.
AM MR SCOTT SMITH I WILL LIKE TO MAKE AND ORDER FOR SOME ITEM IN YOUR STORE SO I WANT TO KNOW THE TOTAL COST OF THE ORDER PLUS SHIPPING COST TO NIGERIA.VIA FEDEX EXPRESS 3 TO 5 DAYS DELIVERY OR DHL 3 [...]
I posted this at TJP. The scheduled move to the new server failed, but this may have been a good thing:
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The moving failure may have been a blessing in disguise.
Two times yesterday the server was unresponsive. I called support yesterday morning and it was back up immediately. Last night, the server timed out and I [...]
I get a lot of link requests by email for TheJapanesePage.com. The sad thing is 99% of the email requests are spam – or I consider it spam since they are obviously automated and impersonal. I’ll explain below but here is this morning’s email with sensitive information X’ed out:
Hi
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I like my coffee black.
ブラックだけでいい。
…And for as long as I can remember I like my tea unsweetened. I know most Americans disagree with me on that since you absolutely cannot find an unsweetened tea in a convenience store (at least not around these parts).
Japan is different. Of course you can buy cokes and [...]
Today must be my lucky day.
Having a business on the Internet always attracts the scammers, but we rarely have trouble since our Authorize.net account filters out all the obvious troublemakers. However when credit card information is stolen from databases or people are careless with their card the bad guys can get enough information to [...]
I don’t have a complaint, really, but I thought this would go well with the new イライラ category.
I had a customer from Chile email me a few weeks ago saying the order he ordered in early December hadn’t yet arrived. I asked him to wait a few days and he was kind enough to [...]
In real life, I have met a few people from Nigeria. They were all very nice. But on the net, I have yet to come in contact with one who isn’t trying to cheat me out of life and limb.
Today I got a PayPal ‘payment’ for an Ebay auction. The buyer purchased [...]
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