webrampage

I have been using Paypal on & off since the day it came out.  At the beginning it used to be one of my favorite site and found it to be very beneficial. Infact I used to use it whenever i used to list my stuff on ebay. Then I saw many competitors come and go. Remember c2it from citibank and etc. Anyways, lately I have found that paypal is not as user friendly as it claims to be. Good luck if you are a seller and some professional scammer scammed you. My friend who is a collector recently got scammed and had a very hard time dealing with PayPal. Good luck to you Mr. Buyer if your seller is in a foreign country. Paypal will make your life miserable. And did you ever try calling into their customer service phone number? That brings me to the 2nd point.

Skype – Last friday night I signed up for skype service. Purchased 1 local number and paid for it. Then subscribed to the monthly unlimited USA & Canada plan. Also paid the annual fee up front.  (By the way, skype does not accept American Express. Only Visa, master card and direct debit. hmm.. I wonder why??) After I receive the confirmation email confirming my subscription and purchase, I logged in to the skype account from the skype console. It is then I realized that it shows my account $1.30 balance. I was surprised specially when I just paid for 1 year unlimited. I gave Skype aka Ebay the benefit of the doubt and decided to give it 24hrs to update their system. Remember this is on Friday night 9pm EST.

I login to my skype console on sunday morning and I still see a $1.30 balance. hmm.. I decided to wait till Monday 9am EST. May be its a weekend thing. I logged in again on Monday morning at 11:30am and the balance is still $1.30. This is when I thought that may be I will call up customer service and straighten it out. I searched and googled only to learn the hard way that skype does not have a customer service number. Everything is handled via email (hmm.. they must have off shored their stuff to Mars for cheaper labor). WTF? Ebay bought Skype. Last time I checked, Ebay is a billion dollar company. How come they do not have a customer service phone number?Any Tom, Dick & Harry knows that if you are opening a business you need a phone number so that your customers can reach you. Especially when its a phone company. To me skype is worse than those fly by night companies such as viaTalk and voip.com. Message to skype aka ebay executives: Remember you are in the phone business. You sell phone numbers. Get yourself a phone line. Listen to your customers before its too late unless you want to be the next Circuit City or CompUSA.

And the fact that they made it very hard to reach customer service aggravated me further. You can not email them directly. You have to fill out a form. I got so upset that I just decided to cancely my subscription with Skype. So I requested them for a full refund. Let’s see if I receive my full refund.

Sometimes shit on the web gets truely fucked up! Well its hilarious though.

Every single blog on the web kept talking about Yahoo’s top searches for 2008. First of all, why make a big buzz about this? Do you know what Yahoo’s market share is? 10.47%! So, these stats aren’t even close to representing most of us.

And everyone is like worshiping Britney Spears because she was the top searched term for seven out of eight years. Well why wouldn’t she? She’s just so entertaining to watch. She’s like a monkey on crack. No offense, but I’m just saying.

When was the last time you saw someone using Yahoo’s search instead of Google? (Well its sad, but everyone uses Google.) Okay so what about the 10% market share? Who are they then? What kind of idiots are they? Which year do they think they’re living in?

Lets take a look at the 10 searches:

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE - Who the fuck still watches this shit?
3. Barack Obama
4. Miley Cyrus – Looking for her naked pictures?
5. RuneScape
6. Jessica Alba
7. Naruto – Is this the Asian anime porn?
8. Lindsay Lohan – People are still into her? WTF?
9. Angelina Jolie – She has the body of man! OMG!
10. American Idol

This top search result thing tells us a lot about Yahoo users, doesn’t it? I’m guessing most of them are (semi) computer-retarded, horny, lame teens and/or hilly billies. But, this is just my guess.

You wanna take a guess at what kinda people use Yahoo? Do that by dropping a comment and after that go listen to some Britney Spears while shopping for a purse.

Yeah that’s right, Hotmail fixed the bugs. When? Not sure, but I noticed it yesterday.

Do you even know what bugs I’m talking about? Well there were two bugs that I found. One of them didn’t let me type in the textbox and the other one kept telling me to upgrade my browser even though I was on FF3.

So, as you’ve guessed I can now write emails and I don’t get that annoying upgrade notice anymore. But, there’s still one thing that really bugs the shit outta me. Its that huge banner at the top. I just fucking hate that!

Why would you put a giant ad banner all the way up there? It just screws up the inbox. It brings everything down. It doesn’t look proportional. If Microsoft really wanted to stick in some ads then why don’t they put it somewhere on the sidebar?

I don’t really care where they put it, but they should just take it off the top. One more thing, do they target an audience for the ads or what? Do I look like I’m interested in Disney shit? I’ve seen a lot of different ads on Hotmail and none of them seem to interest me.

And can they not add a few icons or something? It looks like someone’s grandma designed it. Like the design is alright, but seriously are they trying to copy Gmail? I think they are. They took off all the icons after the redesign. Wow. Hotmail, you faggot!

And please get a logo, Hotmail. Please. I can’t take this level of ugliness. Hey, would you get a logo if I said Gmail has a logo? Yeah that’s right Gmail has a logo. You better go get one for yourself, Hotmail.