The hassles of running fetish sites...

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Posted by billybofh on Sun 14 Sep 03, 11:18 AM

One would think it was fairly straightforward to run a fetish website - but sadly, it isn't.

For instance, the billing company who handles the credit-card processessing "forgets" about 20 members of the site and just erases them so you end up with lots of angry emails from disgruntled customers.

Then, after adding them all in by hand, the billing company decided it did know who there were after all and re-adds them ontop of the manual accounts so that it all goes horribly wrong.

Then, the company who hosts your site shuts down for 5 hours for some un-announced "maintenance" so that you get a lot more angry emails from customers.

You decide to switch companies as they keep shutting down for un-announced maintentance and all seems to go well on the new site.

Then, the new company you moved to is bought over by another and you are given 24hrs notice to completely move servers again.

In the meantime the billing company has erased every account from another one of your sites for no particular reason so you get to do the manual account-adding all over again.

At this point you wonder if the billing company are really earning the 20% commision they take from membership fees.

Then you get an angry email from someone who wants to view the site using Netscape 3 Gold on a VAX.

Ontop of that you have to resist suicide after reading 100's of caption competition entries from people who seem to think that anything they write will become funny if they add enough exclamation-marks at the end of it ("HAHAHA THE GIRL HAS A BUTT!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHHAH!!!!!! do i win?").

Repeat as desired......

I'd actually imagined that running a fetish site would have gone something like :

Upload pictures, stories etc, Get members, Go shopping, Repeat.

But alas, not

Edited Sun 14 Sep 03, 11:41 AM by billybofh


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