If only people would copy and paste . . .

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An affiliate has complained that he is unable to login.

I told him it worked fine for me with the given password 6EJ2LCQF

He replied "it says incorrect password, the password you gave me is 6ej2lcqf"

I said "No it's 6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"

He replied "Why didnt it say upper case. This is crazy."


(he thought the password was now literally "6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"


Harvey
#copy #paste #people
  • Profile picture of the author JBorhez
    Ok...you made me laugh!!
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  • Profile picture of the author John Taylor
    Harvey,

    That reminds me of a favourite quotation:

    The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. ~~Harlan Ellison
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    • Profile picture of the author -Jericho-
      LOL I like this. Good forum sig to use.

      Originally Posted by John Taylor View Post

      Harvey,

      The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. ~~Harlan Ellison


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  • Profile picture of the author ntrikate
    Too funny. I actually just laughed out loud, really loud.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    Reset his password to UrADUmbAsS and see if he gets that one right.

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
      Originally Posted by Zeus66 View Post

      Reset his password to UrADUmbAsS and see if he gets that one right.

      John
      Do this.. Do this. :p
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    • Profile picture of the author Denise Hall
      Originally Posted by Zeus66 View Post

      Reset his password to UrADUmbAsS and see if he gets that one right.

      John


      Great idea! I say go for it, Harvey.
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    • Profile picture of the author Floyd Fisher
      Originally Posted by Zeus66 View Post

      Reset his password to UrADUmbAsS and see if he gets that one right.

      John
      I prefer 1d10t.
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  • Profile picture of the author Warrior Markets
    Loved the part where he added "This is crazy"...Yes, isn't it just...

    -WM
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    • Profile picture of the author Denise Hall
      Originally Posted by waken View Post

      People like to complicate things ... everything...

      OMG, don't they? lol

      Reminds me of a sale my partner and I had awhile back. The product (some turnkey affiliate websites) came with super easy to follow instructions, but we had dozens and dozens of support tickets from people asking crazy questions.

      For instance, someone asked "what program do I edit these sites with?"

      If he had actually read the instructions, he would have seen that all he had to do is upload the files to his server, then add his affiliate links in the ADMIN panel of the site. There is NO actual editing of the php files.


      Another guy said "I followed your instructions to a "Tea" except instead of only changing permissions on 4 folders, I changed the permissions on ALL the folders to 777. But my sites aren't working. What is wrong?"

      (Yes, I swear he really said "tea" instead of "T" lol)

      Well, if he had actually followed the instructions to a "T" then he would have changed permissions ONLY on the appropriate files and his sites would have worked.


      And those are just a couple of examples. We had DOZENS of similar questions, all because people were trying to make it harder than it actually is.

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      • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
        Originally Posted by Denise Hall View Post

        OMG, don't they? lol

        Reminds me of a sale my partner and I had awhile back. The product (some turnkey affiliate websites) came with super easy to follow instructions, but we had dozens and dozens of support tickets from people asking crazy questions.

        For instance, someone asked "what program do I edit these sites with?"

        If he had actually read the instructions, he would have seen that all he had to do is upload the files to his server, then add his affiliate links in the ADMIN panel of the site. There is NO actual editing of the php files.


        Another guy said "I followed your instructions to a "Tea" except instead of only changing permissions on 4 folders, I changed the permissions on ALL the folders to 777. But my sites aren't working. What is wrong?"

        (Yes, I swear he really said "tea" instead of "T" lol)

        Well, if he had actually followed the instructions to a "T" then he would have changed permissions ONLY on the appropriate files and his sites would have worked.


        And those are just a couple of examples. We had DOZENS of similar questions, all because people were trying to make it harder than it actually is.

        Denise
        Did he really say "tea" and not "alcohol"?
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        • Profile picture of the author Denise Hall
          Originally Posted by Sumit_Menon View Post

          Did he really say "tea" and not "alcohol"?

          Yes, he said "tea" but I didn't ask what he put in it. lol

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          • Profile picture of the author Mmfh
            I say it everyday "the world is full of idiots!"

            There money is just as good and I want it too!

            I've had to recently teach a couple of people how to copy and paste. They thought it was the greatest thing. In there defense being around computers all the time you tend to forget what it must be like for people that have just purchased there first computer.

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            • Profile picture of the author bobcath
              Yes Mmfh, I've just discovered the little round coffee cup holder that pops out the front of my PC!

              Bobby
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              • Profile picture of the author Karen Connell
                Originally Posted by bobcath View Post

                Yes Mmfh, I've just discovered the little round coffee cup holder that pops out the front of my PC!

                Bobby
                Hi Bobby,

                Can you tell me where to find that - it's just what I need!

                Karen
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                • Profile picture of the author bobcath
                  Originally Posted by Karen Connell View Post

                  Hi Bobby,

                  Can you tell me where to find that - it's just what I need!

                  Karen
                  Hi Karen

                  It's just above the hairdryer plugs!:confused:

                  Bobby
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                  • Profile picture of the author Karen Connell
                    Originally Posted by bobcath View Post

                    Hi Karen

                    It's just above the hairdryer plugs!:confused:

                    Bobby
                    Thanks - no more balancing the coffee whilst I'm drying my hair and writing a couple of urgent articles.

                    Great things these pc's.

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                    • Profile picture of the author bretski
                      At work I actually do reset users passwords to Tardball#1 after they lock their account sometimes. I'll unlock the account once and if they don't get it I force a password reset...."Big T as in tard...little "a" as in...." well, you get the idea. It's probably going to get me written up one of these days but most of the time I get a laugh out of them...
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                    • Profile picture of the author Smokey_Joe
                      From now on, each of my passwords should include a comment in brackets - seems like way more fun...

                      As to the stupidity - well, everyone has to start somewhere, but it had better not be where one ends up.

                      Originally Posted by Karen Connell View Post

                      Thanks - no more balancing the coffee whilst I'm drying my hair and writing a couple of urgent articles.

                      Great things these pc's.

                      Karen
                      Damn it, these magic toasters have too many functions!
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              • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
                Originally Posted by bobcath View Post

                Yes Mmfh, I've just discovered the little round coffee cup holder that pops out the front of my PC!

                Bobby
                Why don't you rub it in our faces. Not all of us can afford the deluxe model.
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          • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
            Originally Posted by Denise Hall View Post

            Yes, he said "tea" but I didn't ask what he put in it. lol

            Denise
            Everyone knows you don't spell it tea . I learned to spell tee in the first grade
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  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    I enjoyed this thread so much. Haven't laughed so much in a while.
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    • Profile picture of the author A Bary
      Stupidity isn't a destiny, it's a choice
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Bard
    Harvey, you forgot to tell him that he needed to wait and count to 10 before adding the next letter as the tumblers need to reset for each slot before he can continue

    Matt
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  • Profile picture of the author Curt Dillion
    It makes me laugh. But, I'm laughing at myself. Everyone begins from the same place. I had to learn that trick early on, in my Internet experience.

    It's nice to be able to look back and laugh at one's self. In a couple of years, that affiliate will be chuckling at someone else's learning experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Brite
    You know if he didn't understand what his password was and didn't copy and paste it then the chances are he is actually probably a noob to the whole thing and has never been an affiliate of anything before, or very unlikely to have been!

    He's not going to be some massive hard-hitter anyhow is he lol?

    I would keep an eye on his earnings over this next week and just make sure hes not one of those who buys from his own link and then that's it!

    Cheers

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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal View Post

    An affiliate has complained that he is unable to login.

    I told him it worked fine for me with the given password 6EJ2LCQF

    He replied "it says incorrect password, the password you gave me is 6ej2lcqf"

    I said "No it's 6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"

    He replied "Why didnt it say upper case. This is crazy."


    (he thought the password was now literally "6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"


    Harvey
    Somewhere some place a village has lost there idiot...lol

    Great post!!

    Danny
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  • Profile picture of the author Stay At Home Mum
    Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal View Post

    An affiliate has complained that he is unable to login.

    I told him it worked fine for me with the given password 6EJ2LCQF

    He replied "it says incorrect password, the password you gave me is 6ej2lcqf"

    I said "No it's 6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"

    He replied "Why didnt it say upper case. This is crazy."


    (he thought the password was now literally "6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"


    Harvey
    LOL - funny.
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  • Profile picture of the author Richnana
    I think you guys take too much for granted. There is a large segment of the population that use computers everyday and don't know how to USE a computer. If you tell someone to unplug their modem.... they have NO clue what you mean. You try to describe the electrical outlet that the modem should be plugged into and they don't know what to do with it then you explain it is like the outlet that you plug the toaster into? what they ask you.

    Shut down your computer. which way should I lay it, the customer asks... No sir, I did not say lay down. I need you to go to the START Menu. Thanks lady. I am at the Door of my home. No sir... The START menu is on your computer's desktop?... I could go on and on . These are very intelligent people with professional jobs... and most work from home.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tsnyder
    Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal View Post

    An affiliate has complained that he is unable to login.

    I told him it worked fine for me with the given password 6EJ2LCQF

    He replied "it says incorrect password, the password you gave me is 6ej2lcqf"

    I said "No it's 6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"

    He replied "Why didnt it say upper case. This is crazy."


    (he thought the password was now literally "6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"


    Harvey
    Harvey

    Never forget this... there is nothing so foolproof that
    a sufficiently talented fool can't overcome it.

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  • Profile picture of the author geolt7
    Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal View Post

    An affiliate has complained that he is unable to login.

    I told him it worked fine for me with the given password 6EJ2LCQF

    He replied "it says incorrect password, the password you gave me is 6ej2lcqf"

    I said "No it's 6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"

    He replied "Why didnt it say upper case. This is crazy."


    (he thought the password was now literally "6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"


    Harvey
    Wow, I think you need a video conference with this guy to really sort this out.
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    • Profile picture of the author Harvey Segal
      Originally Posted by actionplanbiz View Post

      LOL, thats funny. is this a real story?
      Yes it is true and now for the next stage in this saga.

      The customer has to rebrand a field and the instructions say
      "Enter ClickBank nickname"

      The idea is to replace my one which let us say is 'harvey'
      with his which say is 'abcdef'

      He has told me the rebranding does not work.

      When I look at the field it says 'harveyabcdef'

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      I explained to him

      "You have entered a ClickBank id looking like harveyabcdef

      You need to overwrite/remove the original id of harvey"


      He replied

      "could you be more specific, this is getting very vague"


      Harvey
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      • Profile picture of the author Smokey_Joe
        Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal View Post

        Yes it is true and now for the next stage in this saga.

        The customer has to rebrand a field and the instructions say
        "Enter ClickBank nickname"

        The idea is to replace my one which let us say is 'harvey'
        with his which say is 'abcdef'

        He has told me the rebranding does not work.

        When I look at the field it says 'harveyabcdef'

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        I explained to him

        "You have entered a ClickBank id looking like harveyabcdef

        You need to overwrite/remove the original id of harvey"


        He replied

        "could you be more specific, this is getting very vague"


        Harvey
        LOL

        I wonder what was getting so very vague.

        Could step-by-step instructions be of any help? Wait, I can't come up with more than one step here. Confused by this whole vagueness .
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      • Profile picture of the author Floyd Fisher
        Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal View Post

        Yes it is true and now for the next stage in this saga.

        The customer has to rebrand a field and the instructions say
        "Enter ClickBank nickname"

        The idea is to replace my one which let us say is 'harvey'
        with his which say is 'abcdef'

        He has told me the rebranding does not work.

        When I look at the field it says 'harveyabcdef'

        -----------------------------------------

        I explained to him

        "You have entered a ClickBank id looking like harveyabcdef

        You need to overwrite/remove the original id of harvey"


        He replied

        "could you be more specific, this is getting very vague"


        Harvey
        You should hear some of the stories I've seen happen.

        Like the guy who used his CD tray to hold a quart of soda (it was a 32 ounce cup).

        Or the guy that claimed his computer didn't work, but was in a dark house with no power.

        Yep, there are some stupid ones out there.
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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    Hi harvey

    you have made me chuckle thats for sure - i have a password protected area of one of my websites and often get similar emails from people.

    kind regards


    sam
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  • Profile picture of the author ShopZipCode
    A hilarious story, but its a lesson learned.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
    That brings back some not-so-fond memories of doing tech support. The best ones were when the client couldn't power on their machine and immediately insisted it was broken and they needed a new one. They had said the "tried everything". 99 times out of 100 it was either because they didn't power on their monitor, or their tower was unplugged. Ugh
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  • Profile picture of the author Karan Goel
    Lol...He might really be a crazy one!!
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  • Profile picture of the author SiddFisher
    Great!!
    Its nice to have a good laugh once in a while.
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  • Profile picture of the author DAS_Matt
    Ahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

    Oh man.. people never cease to amuse the hell out of me. Thanks for the laugh!!
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  • Profile picture of the author trafficwave
    I've lost track of the number of times I have replied with some version of:

    "You may want to use copy and paste to avoid the typing errors".

    On the one hand, I'm entertained/saddened by stuff like this.

    On the other hand, I'm glad that these folks are venturing out in to new territory.

    I have to remind myself (quite often) that we all start at the beginning and that what now seems like "old hat" to some of us is still very daunting to many folks out there.

    The fun part is watching those people that stick with it and become at least moderately proficient at marketing, lead generation, etc...

    When this same person emails back later to share their success story, it's very rewarding.

    We had a guy that joined from a public library computer because he didn't have a computer at home. After a YEAR of going to the library to do his marketing, studying, etc... he bought a computer and is now doing his internet marketing work from home.

    That sort of dedication has really paid off for him. I hope many others can follow his example.
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  • Profile picture of the author IMBT
    Like the dark house with no power...and the computer doesn't work...
    "Now that is a beginner for sure".....lol
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    • Profile picture of the author Denise Hall
      Originally Posted by IMBT View Post

      Like the dark house with no power...and the computer doesn't work...
      "Now that is a beginner for sure".....lol
      No, that has nothing to do with being a beginner with computers. That's the 1D10T that someone else mentioned.

      Denise
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  • Profile picture of the author UCSales
    Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal View Post

    An affiliate has complained that he is unable to login.

    I told him it worked fine for me with the given password 6EJ2LCQF

    He replied "it says incorrect password, the password you gave me is 6ej2lcqf"

    I said "No it's 6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"

    He replied "Why didnt it say upper case. This is crazy."


    (he thought the password was now literally "6EJ2LCQF (upper case)"


    Harvey
    In defense of the guy, I think he meant why didn't it say to use upper case.
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    • Profile picture of the author Harvey Segal
      Here is the (hopefully) final step of the saga with this affiliate.

      Having been unable to master the Herculean tasks of
      * logging in with a password
      * entering his ClickBank id in a form

      he has now told me

      "I must admit your response time is excellent, its a pity the
      explanations for the setup isnt as good"

      Harvey
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Park
    Man, you guys are really harsh on this poor guy.

    And there's nothing funny about it because from the way
    he responded, I also have to agree with UCSales that
    what he meant was "why didn't it say to use upper case?"

    Even if he meant "6EJ2LCQF (upper case)" as a password
    which is kind of hard to understand why, it's not very kind
    to display the responses shared by two parties to everyone
    just to make fun of while that poor person might be reading this.
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