If only people would copy and paste . . .

-Jericho- 13 years ago

LOL I like this. Good forum sig to use.

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Harvey,

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J. Barry Mandel

13 years ago

How come I knew this post was going to be a doozy?

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ntrikate

13 years ago

Too funny. I actually just laughed out loud, really loud.

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Zeus66

13 years ago

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

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Sumit Menon 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Zeus66

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

John

Do this.. Do this. :p
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Denise Hall 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Zeus66

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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Floyd Fisher 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Zeus66

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

John

I prefer 1d10t.
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Warrior Markets

13 years ago

Loved the part where he added "This is crazy"...Yes, isn't it just...

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13 years ago

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

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Denise Hall

13 years ago

Originally Posted by waken

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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Sumit Menon

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Denise Hall

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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Denise Hall 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Sumit_Menon

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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- Mmfh 13 years ago
  
  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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  bobcath 13 years ago
  
  Yes Mmfh, I've just discovered the little round coffee cup holder that pops out the front of my PC!
  
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  Karen Connell 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by bobcath
  
  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!
  
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  bobcath 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Karen Connell
  
  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:
  
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  Karen Connell 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by bobcath
  
  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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  bretski 13 years ago
  
  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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  Smokey_Joe 13 years ago
  
  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
  
  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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  Damn it, these magic toasters have too many functions!
  
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  Troy_Phillips 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by bobcath
  
  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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- Troy_Phillips 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Denise Hall
  
  Yes, he said "tea" but I didn't ask what he put in it. lol
  
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  Everyone knows you don't spell it tea . I learned to spell tee in the first grade
  
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timpears

13 years ago

I enjoyed this thread so much. Haven't laughed so much in a while.

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A Bary 13 years ago

Stupidity isn't a destiny, it's a choice
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Matt Bard

13 years ago

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

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Curt Dillion

13 years ago

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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Tom Brite

13 years ago

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!

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Danny Cutts

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal

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!!

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Stay At Home Mum

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal

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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Richnana

13 years ago

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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Tsnyder

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal

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

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geolt7

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal

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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actionplanbiz

13 years ago

LOL, thats funny. is this a real story?

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Harvey Segal

13 years ago

Originally Posted by actionplanbiz

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"

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Smokey_Joe

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal

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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Floyd Fisher

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal

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

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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dsmpublishing

13 years ago

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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13 years ago

A hilarious story, but its a lesson learned.

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Bill_Z

13 years ago

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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Karan Goel

13 years ago

Lol...He might really be a crazy one!!

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13 years ago

Great!!
Its nice to have a good laugh once in a while.

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13 years ago

Ahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

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trafficwave

13 years ago

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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IMBT

13 years ago

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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Denise Hall 13 years ago

Originally Posted by IMBT

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.

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UCSales

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Harvey.Segal

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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Harvey Segal 13 years ago

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"

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Joseph Park

13 years ago

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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