Rant about NATs' Sponsors

[Greenguy]

Those encoded links are the stupidest things I've ever seen - I'd love to know just what the thought process behind having them is.

Chop - post the sponsor please, because I have a feeling that I don't know who they are

[swedguy]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Those encoded links are the stupidest things I've ever seen - I'd love to know just what the thought process behind having them is.

" This was done to try to make the link codes easier on people "

That was their reason for making them encoded

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Chop - post the sponsor please, because I have a feeling that I don't know who they are

My list of sponsors that use encoded NATS codes and/or sponsors that do not know the difference between a TGP gallery and a free site is fairly long. Since I would hate to start a pissing contest during the holiday season, let me double check the list before I post it I am running way behind today but I will try to get the list up ASAP.

[Wazza]

Sponsors should think very carefully before going to NATS... CCbill pays on time every week...

How many ppl using NATS actually use a cascade? Looking around - I've seen plenty that don't...

I understand that it's whizz bang and looks good... I just wish NATS would become a payment aggregator too...

[xxxjay]

Originally Posted by Wazza

Sponsors should think very carefully before going to NATS... CCbill pays on time every week...

How many ppl using NATS actually use a cascade? Looking around - I've seen plenty that don't...

I understand that it's whizz bang and looks good... I just wish NATS would become a payment aggregator too...

1. True. CCBill declines up to 40% of transactions, as well.

2. I wouldn't promote a program that did this either -- we've got Paycom, CCBill, WTS, and Password by phone -- one way or another -- if you want to pay -- we will get the money.

3. I would love that too, but that is way beyond their realm of duties as a software maker.

[Wazza]

Originally Posted by xxxjay

1. True. CCBill declines up to 40% of transactions, as well.

Which they do with good reason... thousands of transactions later and I could count on a little over one hand my refunds and CBs with them...

Paycom scrubs just as hard if not harder... They piss me off full stop to be truthful... no account merging means I've got piddling little amounts of money sitting in their bank a/c that I'll never see...

And only one of them came very close to going tits up... something we as a group seem to have miraculously forgotten...

Originally Posted by xxxjay

3. I would love that too, but that is way beyond their realm of duties as a software maker.

I fully appreciate that this is a pipe dream and I do agree - it's above and beyond the call of duty... it would make me (and I believe many others) happier to take up proggies that use NATS... it's something for them to at least consider imo...

[Jason]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Those encoded links are the stupidest things I've ever seen - I'd love to know just what the thought process behind having them is.

I have an addiction to madtgp and I can't seem to get myself to use any other tgp manager. One of it's shortcomings, is that it will trim off everything past "&" in a url. The encoded url was a life saver for me and opened up a lot of new sponsors resources to my sites.

Is it lame that madtgp strips those off? well, considering it was dev'd in the years past where there were no free hosted galleries (or at least they weren't very popular) there was no reason to compensate for in url arguments.

Is it worth having that feature for that alone? Well, let's figure that between teeniesxxx, bunnyteens, and madthumbs alone, that represents about 4 million uniques/day. Never the less we smaller guys that were lucky enough to pick up sites that already had the software installed before mike quit sharing it.