A well-kept secret

Here in the UK we have Town Councils that look after our well-being, you know rubbish removals, street lighting etc. Here where I live, Stockport (near Manchester) in the North West, we have a branch of the Town Council, Stockport Homes who look after Stockport’s housing stock. Part of their responsibility is keeping their tenants/customers happy. This includes cooking and various other things of which the computer is part.  

A well-kept secret

Finding where to learn about the computer especially if you are elderly is a problem. There you are, wanting to learn how to communicate through the computer, but embarrassed enough to not tell those around you, although you know some people even family that seem to be at home working the computer. When you have asked for help they either show you quickly or say that they will show you later, which never come, so even though you are dying to learn just leave it.

Well now you can learn (it probably has been for a while). Stockport Homes has a cause regularly from beginner, learning from switching on your computer working the mouse and then on to much more. This can all be done at Bridgehall Community Centre on Siddington Avenue, Stockport.
View Larger Map If you travel by bus there is a bus stop outside 20 paces and you are in the centre. In the centre there is a room full of computers with a teacher waiting to show you how.

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Why did it need to come to this?

Up to now I have tried to solve this behind the scenes.

Why don't these so called masters of the net honor their word?

It is because everything on the internet is governed by numbers.

This is how I see it working; an individual knows their way around the computer and finds it easy to slap together product to offer anyone that looks at their site. With time and research this is honed and improved.

Right from the start they learn the golden rule to selling - "promise a refund if things don't work out".

I have wanted to improve/learn and like so many of us seen and joined programs thinking that I would be able to benefit from the item offered. Most times these offer guarantees have expired. Or the offer isn't taken up.

Every now and again you/me come across "an offer that is too good to miss". In this case it promised a guarantee +, yes 2 guarantees that if offer not met, money will be returned.

Well! I found nothing that was offered in their site of use. The training of newbies is so old that it was impossible to follow, the program that was used when installing WordPress was so old that WordPress no longer made it available. The training program was 4 years old and not up dated.

I have been looking for the site with the offer that I was given -surprise - surprise it has gone so I cannot let you look at the offer for you to decide for yourself.

Let me tell you who has failed to live up to what was promised.

It is the 2 that run http://www.internetmarketingreview.com/  Neil Stafford and Neil Travers. 

Why did I join their outfit?

They were just down the road, I wanted someone close by thinking it would be an advantage.

I fortunately used my card [fortunately it is Barclaycard] and I have asked them to get the refund. Barclaycard have come back to me and told me that I have to return the books and CD's/DVDs before I can expect a refund. When I pointed out that this outfit didn't reply when I told them that their training books and CD's/DVDs where available to be returned if they wanted them Barclaycard noted this, but suggested I return them anyway.

This is the part that I like: I pointed out that there is a cost in returning these items and was told [everything is recorded with Barclaycard] I could claim the postage.

The books etc. are on their way - which this space.

If for some reason these 2 Neil’s of http://www.internetmarketingreview.com/ feel that I shouldn’t receive a refund and Barclaycard fail to solve this.

My trump card – they and I both live in England and we have laws and courts – Thank England for they introduced the Small Claims Court.

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bees

http://www.squidoo.com/the-honey-bee-the-club

Should you have time please have a look and let me know what you think on the comments.

Thanks 

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How The Bees Live And What They Do In The Hive

Just put up a page on;

http://www.squidoo.com/-how-the-bees-live-and-what-they-do-in-the-hive

If you have time I would be grateful for any comments.

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Fw: Let me know if you need a copy!

 

I finally got the book that will help you understand women better. Let me know if you need a copy!

 

 

Is this the End? How Not To Spend Money By Keeping Your Wits About You!

Well I have ruffled someone’s feathers

I am having my support close this ticket because you are wasting EVERYONES times to try and get a story for your blog that no one even reads.

1. The download link is on the page and it is at http://media.archonmedia.com.s3.amazonaws.com/commentkahuna/commentkahuna.zip

You need to opt in to register your email anyway.. that is the link on there and if it is not downloading to your computer then you have an issue not us. We have 65000+ users of this software.

2. As soon as you registered, an email was sent to you as well that contained the download link.

3. Get the facts straight before wasting peoples time. No other tickets will be responded to here. Go ahead a blast more lies on your blog too if you want, you have no readers anyway but if it makes you feel good about trying to stir up bullshit, then go for it... you will not be hearing back from us again.

Ticket Details

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Ticket ID: QHX-571257

Department: CommentKahuna

Priority: High

Status: Closed

 

It is a pity that they have decided that I wanted to waste their time; it is not that I didn’t try to download their program

I normally use Google chrome I cannot download your program.
I them used Firefox cannot download or should I say open.
Internet explorer when I downloaded the program, before I knew it there was 59 pages again no download,
I have tried 3 different browsers and still cannot down load this program.

While I would like to download their program it is impossible, yet I have no problem downloading other programs.  I have offered to have a health check done on my computer; this will take a few days to arrange. I'm quite happy to give them the benefit of the doubt.

If I hadn’t let them know that I was putting the problem I was having on my blog, they wouldn’t have moved so fast. I have done nothing that they have not been able to defend.

If you can use this program please do anything that will help is worth using [until you find something better] at this stage I cannot use it

- Pity!

Here is the link. http://media.archonmedia.com.s3.amazonaws.com/commentkahuna/commentkahuna.zip

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Follow up to: - How Not To Spend Money By Keeping Your Wits About You!

 Because I feel strongly about offers that don't deliver I have contacted their support at   http://www.commentkahuna.com/  and am more than happy to give them the opportunity to make good their free offer especially if it can do what the write up said it does, at the moment they are unhappy but little do they realize that I actually want this to work and will give  them an unbiased report 

Email sent to Comment Kahuna:-

Hello

I'd like to talk with you as I have no idea as to whether this email will be read or answered. In case something is followed up I have put a comment up about this site have a look at; How Not To Spend Money By Keeping Your Wits About You! At http://www.newnewbie.com

Colin

Their reply:-

Hello Colin,

Thank you for contacting Support.

I'm not sure why you have mixed two different offers as one. Comment Kahuna as it is said is a free software (meaning you don't have to pay even 1 cent)

The $1 amount you are referring to is not about Comment Kahuna, it is another software Web2Mayhem (as you can see there in picture). Web2Mayhem is available for $127 if you purchase or for $1 - 21 days trail.

It will be appreciated if you remove that particular post about Comment Kahuna you made on your site.

Regards,

Moonis Mansoor

Customer Support

Here is my reply:-

I have thought long and hard about your request “It will be appreciated if you remove that particular post about Comment Kahuna you made on your site.”

The answer is; “sorry – No”

If this software is free and as good as you claim then I would like to use it and also tell other  newbies that would like to grow their site/s.

At the moment it is not downloadable

When http://www.CommentKahuna.com is brought up  and you go to “See How Powerful This FREE Software is for Yourself” “Press Play”

The download file is inoperable

On the page that opens up after you have captured the email which says:-

""Here You Go... 
Download CommentKahuna 
& Start Getting Free Traffic!"

Here is where the $1 offer [which you know]

Then we find Click Here to Download Latest Version of CommentKahuna

Which when opened it caused the internet explorer browser to keep reloading, but no software or a file that can be run or saved

What I would appreciate is being able to actually being able to download and use the free offer. [I suppose that you probably won’t want me to use it now]

Any way what is the point of free software if you can’t use it?

You say that I have confused Comment Kahuna, with another software Web2Mayhem. This is because you have marketed CommetKahuna and snuck in Web2Mayhem which you are selling [yes it’s there but all small print]

Show me how to download install and operate Comment Kahuna and I will with pleasure change my comment, this is an ideal opportunity for you to demonstrate that is free and that it does “what it says on the tin”

I’ll keep you informed as to the progress I have told them that I'll be keeping my readers informed

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