I ask admin to allow this post for a few days. If you read down you will see why.
I'm not accusing anyone on this site of being responsible for the behaviour described below, I have no idea where it's coming from - I'm posting this on every site relevant to text sims in the hope that it will be read by the people responsible and that they will respond favourably.
I've just had to close down the SaaP Online order system and removed the downloadable copy of SaaP. Over the last week orders have been put through again and again using false credit card numbers. These are clearly being generated by a number generator (several attempts to order being aborted before a successful number is found).
These guys presumably justify their behaviour in believing that they are merely taking a game they wouldn't buy anyway. But that is not the case. Not only do the cc authorities still take their percentage of the purchase price but the bank then charges 25 dollars when they eventually learn it's a bad card and have to take action. So, the purchase price is removed from my account, the processing fee still charged and a $25 bad card fee imposed.
Each false order costs me $26!
In the last week there have been 4 false orders for every good one. That adds up to every order costing me $87.
SaaP is not published by a large company that can pass losses like this on to some other aspect of the business, it is written and published by myself alone. These losses come out of my own personal bank account. I cannot possibly stand these losses for any length of time. They will quickly bankrupt me.
Please stop! Your actions will merely mean that I remove the game that is available for download after ordering and yet another service to users will disappear - yet another benefit of the Internet will be destroyed as a result of your actions.
That you should do this to one of the few companies that has passed on the cost savings of Internet distribution to customers with a $15 price tag is gut-wrenching!
I repeat, the downloadable game has been removed and the order site taken down. So, please, no more.
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I'm not accusing anyone on this site of being responsible for the behaviour described below, I have no idea where it's coming from - I'm posting this on every site relevant to text sims in the hope that it will be read by the people responsible and that they will respond favourably.
I've just had to close down the SaaP Online order system and removed the downloadable copy of SaaP. Over the last week orders have been put through again and again using false credit card numbers. These are clearly being generated by a number generator (several attempts to order being aborted before a successful number is found).
These guys presumably justify their behaviour in believing that they are merely taking a game they wouldn't buy anyway. But that is not the case. Not only do the cc authorities still take their percentage of the purchase price but the bank then charges 25 dollars when they eventually learn it's a bad card and have to take action. So, the purchase price is removed from my account, the processing fee still charged and a $25 bad card fee imposed.
Each false order costs me $26!
In the last week there have been 4 false orders for every good one. That adds up to every order costing me $87.
SaaP is not published by a large company that can pass losses like this on to some other aspect of the business, it is written and published by myself alone. These losses come out of my own personal bank account. I cannot possibly stand these losses for any length of time. They will quickly bankrupt me.
Please stop! Your actions will merely mean that I remove the game that is available for download after ordering and yet another service to users will disappear - yet another benefit of the Internet will be destroyed as a result of your actions.
That you should do this to one of the few companies that has passed on the cost savings of Internet distribution to customers with a $15 price tag is gut-wrenching!
I repeat, the downloadable game has been removed and the order site taken down. So, please, no more.
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